MALAYSIA BOYKIN - 3 yo (And Her Mother)- Columbia - SC

Mother and daughter laid to rest; killer still on loose


COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Candra Alston and her three-year-old daughter were found dead in their apartment eight days ago.
Her family and friends buried them this
afternoon. "I was shocked," said childhood school mate Latonya Entzminzer, "I was so shocked."
"Devastated!" exclaimed family friend Rikiyah Cox, "Very devastated."
Richland County Coroner Gary Watts says
Candra and her three-year-old daughter, Malaysia Boykin, were murdered.
"Murder" is the clinical term. The coroner expressed it another way.
"I've been involved with death investigations for well over 30 years and
handled thousands and thousands of cases, and this is one of the most
horrific, brutal cases involving a child that I've seen," claimed Watts.
Police found Candra and Malaysia in their
brook pine drive apartment last Sunday. The mother and daughter had been
dead for two days. "Horrible enough for this child to have been
murdered, but what was involved in it was extremely brutal," stated Watts.
Police and the coroner believe someone out
there knows something that can help them. "Whatever information they
have, however small they might think it is, they need to call and give
that information to the police," said Watts.
But on this Saturday, family and friends
think only of their losses. "I just got back in town and that was the
first thing I heard, and it really took something out of me," expressed
family friend Robert Gibson, "I know how the family's grieving tremendously."
"She was quiet sometimes," stated Entzminzer,
"She didn't have a bad attitude. She always had a smile on her face, just a good girl."
If you have any information about this crime, you are asked to call Crimestoppers.

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13849992

Revisiting cold case murder involving mother and daughter

Posted: Dec 21, 2012 4:16 PM EDT Updated: Dec 31, 2012 4:57 PM EDT



Murder victim Malaysia Boykin


This will be the second Christmas the Alston family endures without their outgoing jokester Candra Alston and her 3-year old daughter, Malaysia Boykin.

They were murdered at the Brook Pines Apartments in January, 2011, but they were not the only victims tied to the brutal killing.

"You don't know what I'm going through," said Alston's grandmother. 

Most of us will never know what the Alston family has experienced in the past two years.

"She was always my little girl," said Alston's stepfather Ray Lyerly. "Yeah, I spoiled her in certain ways. We wanted to give her the best life possible."

Police think the person who took that life away knew Candra and her daughter because there were no signs of forced entry at her Brook Pines apartment.
    
"It was one of the most gruesome crime scenes I've witnessed," said Columbia Police Sgt. Kevin Reese.

Reese said they've interviewed more than 150 people but have yet to find that one piece of information to turn the corner.

What they know is that the killer took several things from the home including a Gucci handbag, a trash can, and several dresses young Malaysia had just received for Christmas. They think the killer may have given the dresses away.

If this sounds familiar, investigators want to hear from you.

"That could be the one piece of information we need to resolve this case and give this family some resolution," said Reese.
     
It's already cost them more than they can stand. After the killings, Candra's mother and Lyerly's wife died from an aneurysm.

"Every day she would worry," said Lyerly. "Every day she would try to figure out what happened. Whoever did this didn't take two lives that day. They took three."

The murders happened around January 6th 2011. If the child's dresses, that Gucci handbag or any other detail of the case sounds familiar call Crimestoppers at 1 888 Crime S-C.

http://www.wistv.com/story/20405511/revisiting-cold-case-murder-involving-mother-and-daughter

2012-01-23 / State News




New details about slayings made public

COLUMBIA — Columbia police are releasing new details in a 2011 double homicide that investigators at the time called one of the most brutal cases they had ever seen.

The State newspaper reports that authorities are hoping the new information will help solve the killings of 25- year-old Candra Alston and her 3-year-old daughter, Malaysia Boykin.

Police say that a computer, an expensive Gucci purse and children’s clothing were missing from the home where the two died. They don’t believe that robbery was the motive, though, and say neither was sexually assaulted.

Investigator Kevin Reese has interviewed more than 150 people since the two were found dead in January 2011.

Police have not said how they died. They’re keeping that a secret to help determine which tips are legitimate.


http://www.gaffneyledger.com/news/2012-01-23/State_News/New_details_about_slayings_made_public.html