Ask Erik is a spiritual advice column from the eternally twenty-year-old spirit guide Erik Medhus. Through gifted medium and spirit translator Kim Babcock, he directly answers readers’ questions on death, the afterlife, spirituality, the human experience, and more with the insight and wisdom he’s gained since his passing.

Hi, Elisa,

If Erik feels so inclined to answer, I have a question for him. I have been following a story out of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, for the past couple of years. A young lady named Heather Elvis was presumed murdered, but her body has yet to be found. It has just been a crazy case with many twists and turns, and the suspects are currently out of jail and awaiting a trial that continues to be postponed (I can only guess due to lack of evidence). The community is divided on whether these particular suspects even committed the crime. There have also been a lot of kidnappings in the area over the past many years due to sex trafficking. Does Erik know what happened to this lady? Thank you!

— Suzy Wright

There’s a heavy energy affecting that entire area that has contributed to what happened to Heather. She died and in a very nasty way, but she didn’t feel any pain. After she was murdered, she was dismembered, and her body parts were spread out to different areas and concealed very well. The first few body parts were cast in the water because the perpetrators figured they’d decompose more quickly because of the organisms in it, but the rest were spread around a landfill.