Sheriff: Missing Elderly Man Found Dead in Clarendon County

CLARENDON COUNTY, S.C. (WOLO) – An 84-year-old missing man from Richland County has turned up dead, three days after he was first reported missing.

Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett says Jerry Helms was found in a field Tuesday afternoon.

Deputies first spotted his vehicle – a 2005 dodge caravan – and then discovered Helms’ body 300 yards away.

Sheriff Garrett says foul play is not suspected.

He is waiting on an autopsy for an official cause of death but says it appears Helms had been dead for some time.

Helms had a history of suffering from dementia.