Catherine Rusoff
The cold case of a man known as “Mr. X” has made a significant breakthrough after nearly half a century, South Carolina police said Monday.
The Greenville County Sheriff credits a true crime podcast – “Murder, Etc.” — for drawing attention to the case, which dates back to 1975, when the remains of “Mr. that were set on fire,” the sheriff’s department said. said in a press release Monday. The death was ruled a homicide, with the man having suffered blunt force trauma and strangulation. Police were unable to identify him despite “numerous outreach efforts over the years.”
Then in 2020, Greenville Sheriff Hobart Lewis “revamped” the city’s cold case unit to focus on reexamining cases with new technology. Since then, 11 cases have been solved, the sheriff’s department said.
The cold case unit was able to identify the man known as “Mr. X” as Oscar James Nedd of White Plains, New York. Nedd was born in Georgia in April 1951 and later moved to New York for college, the department said.
Flood, Ryan/Greenville County Sheriff’s Office
The podcast “Murder, etc.” covered his case in a live episode in 2020.
Sheriff’s office investigators worked with the county coroner’s office that same year to exhume the body from where it had been buried and sent some of the remains to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System for DNA testing. A DNA profile was created for the victim in this database. In February 2024, the White Plains Police Department contacted investigators to say the profile matched Nedd’s missing person case filed there.
Family members were contacted and investigators were able to confirm Nedd’s identity.
“The tireless work and innovative approaches employed by our investigators closed a case that remained a mystery for nearly five decades,” Lewis said in the news release. “Your determination to seek justice for the victims and their families is truly commendable. I want to thank every member of our cold case unit for their hard work and commitment.”
Nedd is believed to have been killed in New York, the sheriff’s department said. CBS News affiliate WSPA reported that the remains were then transported to South Carolina. Authorities in White Plains are now investigating the homicide.
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