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Holly Hill Murders: What We Know One Year Later

Holly Hill, SC (WLTX) - It's been nearly one year since two adults and two teens were murdered in the small town of Holly Hill in Orangeburg County.

On July 15, 58-year-old Jerome Butler, 28-year-old Krystal Hutto, 14-year-old Tamara Perry and 17-year-old Shamekia Sanders were shot dead in their home on Old State Road.

An eight-year-old boy was the only survivor.

In August, Sheriff Leroy Ravenell arrested Christopher Dean Wright, the father of three of the victims, and charged him with three counts of unlawful neglect of a child, 1 count of trafficking crack cocaine and one count of obstructing justice.

Ravenell blamed Wright for the murders and said even though he wasn't the killer, his drug lifestyle put the children and his family in harm's way.

Ravenell also said Wright would not cooperate with investigators.

In October, the sheriff's office created a joint task force between themselves the United States Marshal, the FBI and SLED.

In November Dominique Washington and another unnamed person were charged with obstruction of justice, accused of standing in the way of the investigation.

Almost one year later, the residue of evidence tape can still be found on the front door and two memorials sit by the driveway, but there are still many questions that we don't have the answer to: Who is the unnamed second person? Is there information that the father is withholding? And who killed Jerome Butler, Krystal Hutto, Tamara Perry and Shamekia Sanders.

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