CHEROKEE COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Officials with the 7th Circuit Solicitor’s Office said a man is being investigated for a death that happened in 2021.

Officials said John Lucas Rice, 21, was charged on Friday with the murder of a man who went missing back in late 2021.

At a hearing on Saturday evening, Rice was denied bond. FOX Carolina was the only news station present at the bond hearing.

The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said that on August 22, they received information from the Spartanburg County Cold Case Unit regarding a missing person, Kevin Scott Brookshire . The information alleged Rice had shown someone a decomposing body in a trash bag lying in the backyard of a home on Robbs School Road, according to officials.

Deputies said they responded to the home on the same

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