Investigation Discovery features Hilton Head mystery: What happened to the Calverts?
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From the Archive: The Island Packet’s coverage of the disappearance of John and Elizabeth Calvert
Hilton Head couple John and Elizabeth Calvert were last seen on March 3, 2008. Revisit the Packet’s coverage here.
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Hilton Head’s greatest mystery, the disappearance of a prominent couple in 2008, is the focus of an episode of Investigation Discovery’s “Hometown Homicide” on Thursday night.
John and Elizabeth Calvert were last seen on March 3, 2008, at Harbour Town. In the days that followed, the search for them took investigators across the island, into the Harbour Town Yacht Basin and even to a landfill in Georgia. The Calverts’ fate remains a mystery to this day.
Their former business associate Dennis Gerwing died by suicide March 11, 2008. His home, business and cars had been searched by police just days before.
In December of that year, nine months into the investigation, Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner announced that police believed Gerwing, acting alone, was responsible for the Calverts’ deaths.
But what happened to them? Where were their bodies? Why were they killed? The case remains open.
A decade later, a book by Pamela Ovens and Charlie Ryan, titled “Deceit, Disappearance and Death on Hilton Head Island,” would bring the cold case back into the spotlight.
The “Hometown Homicide” episode “In Too Deep” premieres at 10 p.m. Thursday on Investigation Discovery. If you miss the initial broadcast, it also is scheduled at 1 a.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday.
Investigation Discovery is Channel 66 on Hargray and Channel 94 on Spectrum.
“Friends, sheriff’s investigators and local reporters recall the shock and disbelief disappeared without a trace from a place so peaceful,” the show’s description says.
This story was originally published January 29, 2020 at 2:55 PM.
