CHARLOTTESVILLE (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) — On the 13th anniversary of Dashad “Sage” Smith’s disappearance, Charlottesville police chief Michael Kochis revealed that detectives had found and interviewed Erik McFadden, a longtime person of interest in the case who had been missing since 2019, during a press conference on Thursday.
“This is an important step forward, but we have a lot of work that remains,” Kochis said, ” and we cannot do that alone.”
Smith was last seen on Nov. 2o, 2012 around 6 p.m. in the 500 block of West Main Street. Police had previously identified McFadden as a a critical person of interest in the case, as he was supposed to meet Smith that night and is the last known person to have contact with Smith. But on the morning McFadden was supposed to meet with detectives in-person, he did not show and reportedly left Charlottesville…