Woman’s Burned Remains Found Inside Metal Barrel in Chester Co.

YORK COUNTY, S.C. (WSOC) — York County detectives are conducting their sixth homicide investigation of the year after they were called to a home on Azurine Circle in Fort Mill Wednesday.

John Vincent Coddington, 22, who lived at that home, was taken into custody and charged with murder.

Investigators said Coddington hit and kicked 32-year-old Tiffany Williams to death and took her from Fort Mill to Rippling Brooke Road in Chester County where investigators located her burned remains inside a metal barrel.

John Gum lives just a few doors down from Coddington and believes he’s lived there for three or four years.

Gum said he just saw him Thursday morning.

“Couple of friends with him, other than that, didn’t really seem to be anything out of the ordinary,” Gum said.

Officials have not said how Coddington knew Williams.

He is being held in the York County Jail without bon