Judge sets "considerable" bond for couple arrested in relation to missing person Kate Waring

Bond is set at $200,000 for 29 year old Ethan Mack and 30 year old Heather Kamp after Charleston Police charged them with forgery and obstruction of justice, related to the disappearance of Kate Waring.

Mack and Camp are accused of forging a check from Waring 3 days after her disappearance June 12 for the amount of $4,500. The check was reported by a James Island bank and investigators determined the signature was not Waring's.

Mack and Kemp were friends of Waring, police say they had dinner with her at Wasabi Japanese Steakhouse, the night she disappeared. Originally the couple told police they dropped Waring off at her home around 11:45 that night, later they changed their stories.

In the initial missing person report for Waring, her father Thomas Waring told police something strange had happened between his daughter and Mack and Kamp, he didn't give details but said the incident scared her and made her want to keep a distance.

The Charleston Post and Courier interviewed Mack shortly after Waring disappeared. He said, he dropped Waring off at home after dinner, and she sent him a message shortly afterward. "I showed the police the message she left me," he said in the interview trying to prove he was not with her.

Mack's attorney Ashley Pennington, the public defender for the 9th Circuit says that Mack was friends with Waring for about 5 years. Mack's mother was upset outside after the bond hearing saying, "We loved (Kate) too."

Pennington says Mack and Kamp were living together but that he was not aware of her checkered past. Kamp has several charges in 4 states, including robbery in California. She served time in jail in Indianapolis for forgery charges and is wanted in 2 states.

Janice Waring, attended the bond hearing and spoke about her daughter. "Oh I feel a lot better about it now, I feel the police have been working really really hard," says Waring. "We dearly love her, it's been heart breaking for our family not to know where she is and I'm just hoping that something will break pretty soon now."

On July 22 deputies with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office and detectives with Charleston City Police searched a wooded area near the Seneca River for Waring’s body. Charleston City police said their department received information that Waring’s body might be near the banks of the Seneca River. The search ended in the afternoon with no body found.

Currently friends of Kate Waring are offering a $25,000 reward for information that leads to her whereabouts. Call Crime Stoppers at 843 554-1111.