North Carolina's Twenty Most Wanted

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Target Twenty

	> > WANTED: Jose Miranda // UNION COUNTY: When Theresa McClung arrived at her father’s house on June 10, 2003, she found him dead on his living room floor covered in blood. Charles Hanley, 75, had been stabbed more than 15 times with a screwdriver. - 04/09/09 - 2:59 PM ... more
	> > WANTED: James Everlon "Toby" Roberts // ROCKINGHAM COUNTY: Sheriff’s deputies have been searching for a man they say violently attacked his ex-girlfriend, stabbed and beat her until she was near death. James Everlon “Toby” Roberts has been on the run since 2003. He’s... - 01/15/09 - 4:30 PM ... more
	> > WANTED: Kenneth Alexander Shaw // CUMBERLAND COUNTY: Around 6 p.m. on August 8, 2008, authorities say Kenneth Alexander Shaw and a 25-year-old co-worker were driving home from a day on the job at Smithfield Packing. - 04/07/09 - 2:56 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Claudio Gutierrez Cruz // CUMBERLAND COUNTY: Claudio Gutierrez-Cruz is wanted for shooting and killing 44-year-old Francisco Lopez Batista on the premises of Fort Bragg. - 01/28/10 - 10:57 AM ... more
	> > WANTED: Jonathan Lamar Davis // WAKE COUNTY: Raleigh Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have teamed up to find a man who is considered armed and dangerous. His name is Jonathan Lamar Davis. - 09/25/08 - 11:14 AM ... more
	> > WANTED: Sexual Assault Suspect // ORANGE COUNTY: It was a cold, winter day. February 19, 2007. 10:15a.m. A 53-year-old white female dropped off her laundry at a local Laundromat in Chapel Hill. Instead of waiting there, she put on her headphones and used that time... - 01/13/10 - 9:51 AM ... more
	> > WANTED: Cameron Parker // EDGECOMBE COUNTY: On August 28, 2007, around 4:30 in the afternoon, Cameron Parker and a friend, Kelvin Harrison, were walking down Sutton Road – a residential area located in the eastern part of Rocky Mount. Three men were minding... - 05/14/08 - 4:38 PM ... more
	> > WANTED: Jose Padilla // ALAMANCE COUNTY: Jose Padilla and an accomplice, who has never been identified, have managed to elude authorities for seven years. - 04/06/09 - 5:16 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Sagebrush Murder Suspect // DAVIE COUNTY: It was November 4, 2007 around 12:15 in the morning. After closing up the Sagebrush Steakhouse off Yadkinville Road in Mocksville, four current employees and one former employee were walking to their cars, located behind... - 04/07/09 - 2:57 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Louis Avendano // WAKE COUNTY: On February 28, 1996, authorities say Louis Avendano shot and killed Raul Torres Guillen. Avendano was living in at duplex at 2704 Simpkin Road with three other individuals, including the victim. - 05/20/08 - 6:10 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Richard Bare // WILKES COUNTY: Bare was last seen in July 1985. He was awaiting trial for the murder of Sherry Elaine Lyllas when he escaped from the Wilkes County Detention Center. - 02/08/10 - 10:16 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Be-Lo Murderer // BERTIE COUNTY:It was closing time at the Be-Lo grocery store in Windsor, NC. On Sunday, June 6, 1993, a black male suspect hid inside the store until only the manager, a clerk and cleaning crew were left. At that point, the suspect... - 01/13/10 - 9:51 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Robert Lee Best // CRAVEN COUNTY: Robert Lee Best had just gotten out of jail about two months prior to committing this crime. He is a habitual sex offender and never re-registered once out of prison. Either Best was living across the street from his... - 04/03/09 - 2:27 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Robert Trent Burkey // LEE COUNTY: Robert Trent Burkey wins the prize for the Target Ten fugitive with the most education. Burkey was once a professor, and became a chairman of psychology at Emory and Henry College in Virginia. His intelligence and versatility... - 11/17/08 - 1:05 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Omar Ocampo Figueroa // MOORE COUNTY: Two days before Christmas of 1999, Omar Ocampo Figueroa fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend near her workplace. The woman's friend, Angel Martinez, tried to stop Figueroa, but was slashed repeatedly and badly injured.... - 03/10/09 - 12:42 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: James Marvin Johnson // MOORE COUNTY: James Marvin Johnson is an avid hunter accused of raping and impregnating a 12-year-old girl in his own family. Authorities say Johnson has family in Harnett, Lee and Moore counties. Immediately after he posted bond,... - 02/10/10 - 7:46 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Celestino Gutierrez-Molina // ORANGE COUNTY: Gutierrez-Molina has relatives in the Tarboro, NC area. He is originally from Mexico and was visiting family in Chapel Hill, NC when this incident occurred, so police say he could be in Tarboro or could have fled back... - 04/06/09 - 9:47 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Phu Tan Nguyen // WAKE COUNTY: Nguyen was last seen on October 2nd, 1996 outside the Saigon Restaurant at 2259 New Hope Church Road in Raleigh, NC. The Restaurant is no longer there, but the scars remain. Police say Nguyen executed someone he knew... - 01/13/10 - 9:54 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Nathan Randall Pettigrew // WAKE COUNTY: Police say Pettigrew can easily blend in to a crowd. They say he is known to frequent nightclubs and has a strange fetish for strawberry blunts. He is wanted for First degree kidnapping in Raleigh. Assault with a deadly... - 06/08/09 - 4:44 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Willard Eugene Smith // LEE COUNTY: He's now 28. But he was 16 when police say he shot a man during a gunfight near the Lee and Chatham County line. - 04/06/09 - 1:29 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Alex Soto // WAYNE COUNTY: Alex Soto has managed to elude authorities for more than three years. He’s wanted for conspiracy to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine and 100 kilograms of marijuana. - 04/06/09 - 8:29 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Phillip Thomas Williams // WAKE COUNTY: A fugitive wanted by Cary police and the FBI surrendered to authorities in Philadelphia Sunday night. Phillip Thomas "Scoob" Williams has been featured on NC Wanted's Target Twenty most wanted fugitive list. - 11/23/09 - 2:33 PM ... video \| more

Episode Guide

	> > WANTED: Jose Miranda // UNION COUNTY: When Theresa McClung arrived at her father’s house on June 10, 2003, she found him dead on his living room floor covered in blood. Charles Hanley, 75, had been stabbed more than 15 times with a screwdriver. - 04/09/09 - 2:59 PM ... more
	> > WANTED: James Everlon "Toby" Roberts // ROCKINGHAM COUNTY: Sheriff’s deputies have been searching for a man they say violently attacked his ex-girlfriend, stabbed and beat her until she was near death. James Everlon “Toby” Roberts has been on the run since 2003. He’s... - 01/15/09 - 4:30 PM ... more
	> > WANTED: Kenneth Alexander Shaw // CUMBERLAND COUNTY: Around 6 p.m. on August 8, 2008, authorities say Kenneth Alexander Shaw and a 25-year-old co-worker were driving home from a day on the job at Smithfield Packing. - 04/07/09 - 2:56 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Claudio Gutierrez Cruz // CUMBERLAND COUNTY: Claudio Gutierrez-Cruz is wanted for shooting and killing 44-year-old Francisco Lopez Batista on the premises of Fort Bragg. - 01/28/10 - 10:57 AM ... more
	> > WANTED: Jonathan Lamar Davis // WAKE COUNTY: Raleigh Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have teamed up to find a man who is considered armed and dangerous. His name is Jonathan Lamar Davis. - 09/25/08 - 11:14 AM ... more
	> > WANTED: Sexual Assault Suspect // ORANGE COUNTY: It was a cold, winter day. February 19, 2007. 10:15a.m. A 53-year-old white female dropped off her laundry at a local Laundromat in Chapel Hill. Instead of waiting there, she put on her headphones and used that time... - 01/13/10 - 9:51 AM ... more
	> > WANTED: Cameron Parker // EDGECOMBE COUNTY: On August 28, 2007, around 4:30 in the afternoon, Cameron Parker and a friend, Kelvin Harrison, were walking down Sutton Road – a residential area located in the eastern part of Rocky Mount. Three men were minding... - 05/14/08 - 4:38 PM ... more
	> > WANTED: Jose Padilla // ALAMANCE COUNTY: Jose Padilla and an accomplice, who has never been identified, have managed to elude authorities for seven years. - 04/06/09 - 5:16 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Sagebrush Murder Suspect // DAVIE COUNTY: It was November 4, 2007 around 12:15 in the morning. After closing up the Sagebrush Steakhouse off Yadkinville Road in Mocksville, four current employees and one former employee were walking to their cars, located behind... - 04/07/09 - 2:57 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Louis Avendano // WAKE COUNTY: On February 28, 1996, authorities say Louis Avendano shot and killed Raul Torres Guillen. Avendano was living in at duplex at 2704 Simpkin Road with three other individuals, including the victim. - 05/20/08 - 6:10 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Richard Bare // WILKES COUNTY: Bare was last seen in July 1985. He was awaiting trial for the murder of Sherry Elaine Lyllas when he escaped from the Wilkes County Detention Center. - 02/08/10 - 10:16 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Be-Lo Murderer // BERTIE COUNTY:It was closing time at the Be-Lo grocery store in Windsor, NC. On Sunday, June 6, 1993, a black male suspect hid inside the store until only the manager, a clerk and cleaning crew were left. At that point, the suspect... - 01/13/10 - 9:51 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Robert Lee Best // CRAVEN COUNTY: Robert Lee Best had just gotten out of jail about two months prior to committing this crime. He is a habitual sex offender and never re-registered once out of prison. Either Best was living across the street from his... - 04/03/09 - 2:27 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Robert Trent Burkey // LEE COUNTY: Robert Trent Burkey wins the prize for the Target Ten fugitive with the most education. Burkey was once a professor, and became a chairman of psychology at Emory and Henry College in Virginia. His intelligence and versatility... - 11/17/08 - 1:05 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Omar Ocampo Figueroa // MOORE COUNTY: Two days before Christmas of 1999, Omar Ocampo Figueroa fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend near her workplace. The woman's friend, Angel Martinez, tried to stop Figueroa, but was slashed repeatedly and badly injured.... - 03/10/09 - 12:42 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: James Marvin Johnson // MOORE COUNTY: James Marvin Johnson is an avid hunter accused of raping and impregnating a 12-year-old girl in his own family. Authorities say Johnson has family in Harnett, Lee and Moore counties. Immediately after he posted bond,... - 02/10/10 - 7:46 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Celestino Gutierrez-Molina // ORANGE COUNTY: Gutierrez-Molina has relatives in the Tarboro, NC area. He is originally from Mexico and was visiting family in Chapel Hill, NC when this incident occurred, so police say he could be in Tarboro or could have fled back... - 04/06/09 - 9:47 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Phu Tan Nguyen // WAKE COUNTY: Nguyen was last seen on October 2nd, 1996 outside the Saigon Restaurant at 2259 New Hope Church Road in Raleigh, NC. The Restaurant is no longer there, but the scars remain. Police say Nguyen executed someone he knew... - 01/13/10 - 9:54 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Nathan Randall Pettigrew // WAKE COUNTY: Police say Pettigrew can easily blend in to a crowd. They say he is known to frequent nightclubs and has a strange fetish for strawberry blunts. He is wanted for First degree kidnapping in Raleigh. Assault with a deadly... - 06/08/09 - 4:44 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Willard Eugene Smith // LEE COUNTY: He's now 28. But he was 16 when police say he shot a man during a gunfight near the Lee and Chatham County line. - 04/06/09 - 1:29 PM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Alex Soto // WAYNE COUNTY: Alex Soto has managed to elude authorities for more than three years. He’s wanted for conspiracy to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine and 100 kilograms of marijuana. - 04/06/09 - 8:29 AM ... video \| more
	> > WANTED: Phillip Thomas Williams // WAKE COUNTY: A fugitive wanted by Cary police and the FBI surrendered to authorities in Philadelphia Sunday night. Phillip Thomas "Scoob" Williams has been featured on NC Wanted's Target Twenty most wanted fugitive list. - 11/23/09 - 2:33 PM ... video \| more