Family of missing Broadway dancer hires private investigator to assist in desperate search

Zelig Williams was last seen on October 3 at his home in Columbia, South Carolina, according to a statement from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department.

The family of a Broadway dancer who’s been missing for nearly two weeks has hired a private investigator to assist in their desperate search to find him and bring him home. Zelig Williams was last seen on October 3 at his home in Columbia, South Carolina, according to a statement from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department. The family filed a missing person report the following day after the 28-year-old failed to contact them, the department said. As the search for the Broadway performer – whose credits include “Hamilton” and “MJ The Musical” – entered its second week, family and friends paused for a moment of silence at 9:52 a.m. Monday, to mark the last time he was seen. “We had a moment just of prayer, just to let him know that we are still here, we want him home,” Williams’ cousin, Mieoki Corbett-Jacobs told CNN Monday. Chandra Cleveland, the private investigator hired by the family to help locate Williams, said she believes his case is an example of “missing while Black syndrome,” where the disappearances of Black men and women receive little to no attention. “I like to tell everyone that even you can go an hour and not speak to a person, but when you know that’s not their pattern, something needs to be done, and you need to call law enforcement immediately and report that,” she said. “That’s what this family did.”