17-year-old days away from giving birth found dead, SC cops say. Now, woman arrested

A missing 17-year-old who was nine months pregnant was stabbed to death in February, sparking a monthslong search for her killer, South Carolina authorities said.

Now, 62-year-old Jacqueline Reid is charged with two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of Maylashia Hogg and her unborn daughter, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division announced July 1.

Reid’s attorney information was not available in Barnwell County court records July 2.

In early February, Hogg was 40 weeks pregnant and preparing for her induction appointment when she disappeared, family told news outlets.

“I mean you have to be sick with hate to do someone like that— anybody, better yet a child,” her aunt, Judy Hogg, told WRDW/WAGT. “And then to know that she was gonna have her baby in less than a day or two. That’s sick.”

On Feb. 14, the Barnwell Police Department shared a missing person flyer for Maylashia Hogg, who had been missing for nearly a week already, authorities said. She had turned 17 a month earlier.

Her body was found Feb. 18, but investigators said they learned she had been killed 10 days earlier not far from Reid’s home, according to arrest warrants.

On Feb. 8, Reid stabbed Hogg multiple times, killing her and her baby, law enforcement said.

“She was excited to be a mom,” her cousin Robert Payne told WACH in February. “I know somebody did something to her.”

She had already named her daughter Londyn Charity after her mother, family told news outlets.

“She was over the top. She was talking about it,” Judy Hogg told WRDW/WAGT. “She was showing me the sonogram of the baby.”

Her family pledged to find justice, but months passed by with no arrests made in the case. In March, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division opened up a tip line dedicated to receiving information in Hogg’s death investigation.

Investigators said they searched Reid’s home, near where Hogg was found dead, and found forensic evidence of the teen’s death.

McClatchy News reached out to the state’s law enforcement agency about the relationship between Hogg and Reid but did not immediately receive a response July 2.

“She was only a child,” Payne told WACH. “A child with a child.”

Barnwell is about a 60-mile drive southwest from Columbia.