Convicted murderer arrested in connection to separate SC cold case from 2020
An arrest has been made in the case of a Greenville woman missing for five years, but her body has not been found.
The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Unit arrested Jorden Nebling’s ex-boyfriend, Tyler Wilkins, who is serving a 45-year sentence for the murder of another woman, Clarissa Winchester in 2022.
Lt. Ryan Flood, spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office, said in a news release Wilkins confessed to stabbing Nebling to death in 2020 to officials at Perry Correctional Institution and then told sheriff investigators the same.
Nebling was 19 when she was murdered. She would have turned 24 in March.
The State reported in 2022 that Nebling had been picked up by Wilkins on the day she was last seen, but her family did not report her missing for a month. That complicated the investigation, Sheriff’s Office investigator Blake Wolfe said at the time.
She disappeared on October 10, 2020 after just getting a job at Hardee’s.
“This arrest shows the relentless pursuit of justice by our team of investigators,” Sheriff Hobart Lewis said in a news release. “While it won’t bring Jorden back or ease the never-ending heartache that her family and loved ones continue to endure, we hope this arrest offers a measure of closure in this horrific case.”
Nebling was in foster care at 8, then adopted, but left that house at 16 and bounced around between homes of friends and boyfriends.
Her ex-stepmother, Mary Tucker, told The State in 2022 that Nebling was driving a friend’s car when it broke down. She pulled into a driveway and called the car owner and an ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend showed up, Wolfe said.
The residents of the house where the car was left said they saw her get into a car with a white male around 1:30 p.m. that day. A month later after Tucker filed the missing person report, deputies interviewed the ex-boyfriend, who acknowledged he picked her up, took her to his house and then she walked off.
Tucker said Nebling never met a stranger.
“She was charismatic, super fun, people loved to be with her,” said Tucker, who runs the Facebook page Find Jorden Nebling. “She had a past, but that doesn’t define a person. That doesn’t make her less important.”
Wilkins pleaded guilty in 2024 to murdering Winchester and her unborn child. Family members said Wilkins was the child’s father.
After receiving a call from her parents, deputies found her and the baby dead inside the home on Saw Mill Road in Travelers Rest. Winchester had been beaten to death, an autopsy showed.
Michael Winchester told WSPA at the time of his daughter’s death, “We knew he was controlling, manipulative, and psychologically abusive, but we’ve tried to warn Clarissa of these red flags, and things, but she just wanted to love him. She thought she could save him.”
This story was originally published April 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM.