Unsolved crime cases in North Carolina

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	> > Another Drive-by in Wilson's Mills // JOHNSTON COUNTY: A pregnant woman may have survived a drive-by shooting in August 2009 that struck her inside her own bedroom, but the small community of Wilson's Mills was forever scarred. - 03/01/10 - 11:32 AM ... more
	> > A Survivor's Story: 7 Years Later // MOORE COUNTY: Sherry Bean doesn’t remember the night it happened. She doesn’t remember the two days before it happened, nor does she remember the agonizing months that followed. - 02/12/10 - 3:07 AM ... more
	> > Walter Jones: Invalid Wife Overhears Husband's Murder // CUMBERLAND COUNTY: Chun Jones lay in bed helplessly on July 24, 2003, overhearing the sounds of her husband’s murder, but unable to stop it. - 08/06/09 - 3:19 PM ... more
	> > Sergeant Gregory Martin: $30K Reward in Police Officer Shooting // YADKIN COUNTY: Jonesville police sergeant Gregory Keith Martin probably didn’t realize he was about to confront his own murderer when he stopped a red pickup in the early morning of October 5, 1996. - 08/06/09 - 3:19 PM ... more
	> > Miguel Cifuentes: Cary Police Work Murder of "Lost Soul" // WAKE COUNTY: Miguel Ramirez Cifuentes spent most of his time on the streets of Cary, far from his family and native country, living on society's fringe. - 02/23/10 - 11:30 AM ... more
	> > Ian Davis: An Unintended Target? // DURHAM COUNTY: Davis spent the last night of his life at a friend’s townhouse at 1304 Seaton Road in Durham, two blocks from where he lived with his mother. Though Ian was 18, he had a curfew and told friends he should probably go... - 07/14/09 - 11:32 AM ... more
	> > Michael LaCass: Gunned Down in Salemburg Driveway // SAMPSON COUNTY: What would have been Michael LaCass’s 25th birthday came and went last summer, and his father feels no closer to justice than he did the night of January 5, 2008, when Michael was shot to death in his sister-in-law’s... - 02/04/10 - 10:10 AM ... more
	> > Filiberto Moreno-Lopez: Murder Probe of Illegal Alien Presents Challenges // WAKE COUNTY: Raleigh police are seeking information about the December shooting death of Filiberto Moreno-Lopez. - 02/04/09 - 5:38 PM ... more
	> > Allison Jackson Foy: Missing Case Turned Murder // NEW HANOVER COUNTY: When Allison Jackson Foy disappeared in July 2006, it seemed like a classic case of a woman in trouble walking away from her life. But Allison’s sister, Lisa Valentino, couldn’t believe it. Despite the difficulties,... - 06/10/09 - 3:29 AM ... more
	> > Sharon Helphrey: Police Stand At Dead-End in 2001 Murder // WAYNE COUNTY: In the nearly nine years since Sharon Helphrey was brutally murdered in her Goldsboro home, investigators just cannot get a break in this case. - 02/09/10 - 11:26 AM ... more
	> > Cindy Kirk: Slain in Broad Daylight // DURHAM COUNTY: On a quiet street in an affluent Durham neighborhood, Cindy Kirk , 34, was attacked in her driveway in broad daylight while a construction crew worked on a house down the block and a landscaper mowed the lawn across... - 03/20/09 - 1:50 PM ... more
	> > Wilbert Caine: Man Killed by Shots Intended for Dealer // HALIFAX COUNTY: April Caine said a quick prayer before she took a breath and recounted the night she got the news her father had been murdered. He was shot in an acquaintance’s kitchen, an apparent robbery gone bad, and died within... - 03/04/10 - 4:34 PM ... more
	> > Rick and Karen Brown: Peaceful Couple Killed in Home Break-In // CHATHAM COUNTY: Rick and Karen’s peace was permanently disturbed on April 19, 2005. They spent the day at a Blues Festival in Greenville and returned home to their killer. The couple was found a week later by Karen’s sister, Rhonda... - 02/08/09 - 11:35 PM ... more
	> > Robbie Jacobs: Killed in Home with Pot // CUMBERLAND COUNTY: Jacobs’ father found his 20-year-old son on July 18, 1997, slumped over on the couch. At first he thought Jacobs was asleep but within hours he would learn his son had been shot three times in the back of the head.... - 12/28/09 - 4:29 PM ... video \| more
	> > Tommy Priest: Governor Offers $5K Reward for Info // ROBESON COUNTY: On December 4, 1994, police officers responded to a 911 call from a carful of men who passed a body in the road. They did not know if the man they saw -- 36-year-old Thomas Earl Priest -- was dead or alive. - 11/05/08 - 1:23 PM ... more
	> > Joshua Davis: Hit and Run or Homicide? // WAKE COUNTY: It could have been a mother’s intuition. On January 6, 2004 Judy Creech felt something troubling her. It was an unsettling gut reaction she couldn’t shake. - 09/17/08 - 11:09 AM ... more
	> > Kathi Goff Kennedy: For Fourteen Years, A Family Mourns // Kathi Goff Kennedy was brutally murdered in her Kernersville home on October 17, 1994. Her two daughters were in the home at the time and left unharmed. - 10/15/09 - 12:41 PM ... video \| more
	> > Ray Dennis: Hit and Run Unsolved Despite Rumors // HARNETT COUNTY: Twenty one years ago today, Ray Dennis left his home in Erwin for the Mule Days Festival in Benson. He and a friend went every year, but this time, Dennis never came home. He was 25. - 09/24/09 - 3:57 PM ... more
	> > Jennifer Short: Body Found in NC, Parents Killed in VA // It’s been six years since Michael and Mary Francis Short were brutally murdered inside their home in Bassett, Virginia. Their 9-year-old daughter, Jennifer, was later found dead in North Carolina, about 40 miles from the Short family... - 12/19/08 - 8:15 AM ... more
	> > Derek Hodge: No Suspects in Murder of A&T Student // GUILFORD COUNTY: Eva Hodge couldn’t fall asleep the night before her birthday. Something was gnawing at her. She got out of bed, walked to the back room of the house and watched television until morning. - 06/30/08 - 6:13 PM ... more
	> > Corolla Horses: $12,550 Reward for Horse Shootings // CURRITUCK COUNTY: The Wild Horses of Corolla embody the spirit of the Outer Banks. Beauty, serenity, tranquility. "There's something very romantic about the thought of these horses, being able to roam wherever they want," says Karen... - 10/15/09 - 12:40 PM ... video \| more
	> > Lisa Hohman: Missing Teen Found Dead Near Home // ROBESON COUNTY:It's been nearly two years since the skeletal remains of a missing Maxton girl were discovered near her home in Robeson County. - 07/15/09 - 10:11 AM ... more
	> > William Simon: No Body, No Closure // CUMBERLAND COUNTY: Cumberland County detectives continue to work leads and establish a timeline in the case of missing cabbie William Simon, of Fayetteville. - 11/20/09 - 4:26 AM ... more
	> > Usama Husein: $75,000 Reward in Unsolved Drive-By // WAKE COUNTY: He was a teenager in a nice North Raleigh neighborhood. When Usama Husein’s parents pulled into their driveway on a rainy Friday night in April of 2000, they thought their son was on his way to Myrtle Beach. He was... - 04/15/08 - 6:47 AM ... video \| more
	> > Debbie Key: Suspect Confessed Yet Free // ORANGE COUNTY: Call it an act of desperation. Call it a last resort. When the Carrboro Police Department drew up a fake letter and phony arrest warrant for the man suspected of murdering 35-year-old Deborah Key, they got what they... - 11/30/09 - 10:39 AM ... more
	> > Alice Burgess: A Family Walks With Ghosts // VANCE COUNTY: Alice Burgess, mother of 3, was brutally beaten to death in 1977. The family she left behind clings to her memory, and struggles to find peace among the rubble of a troubled past. - 01/09/08 - 11:28 AM ... more
	> > George Capps: Assassinated? // SAMPSON COUNTY: Was he assassinated? Who was George Capps? Friends and family say he was a regular guy doing his job. - 11/07/09 - 8:13 AM ... video \| more
	> > Cecil Chacon: Buried In His Backyard // VANCE COUNTY: Police found Cecil Chacon’s 1976 Buick Skylark abandoned on the outskirts of Henderson at about 4 a.m. on June 9th, 1992. It wasn’t like him. Cecil Chacon was a salt-of-the-earth guy, a loving father and a hard worker... - 05/12/09 - 4:03 PM ... video \| more
	> > Rosa Lee Crabtree: Violence Against the Elderly // DURHAM COUNTY: Rosa Lee Crabtree had just returned home from church and was getting ready to go to bed when it happened. Tony Crabtree checked on his 68-year-old mother on his way to work every morning, and on November 7, 2005, found... - 12/17/07 - 11:19 AM ... video \| more
	> > Jimmy Davis: Map To The Unknown // HARNETT COUNTY: He earned his keep traveling up and down the east coast, cleaning up storm debris. Back in 1989 when Hurricane Hugo hit the east coast, Jimmy Davis was a busy man. The Dunn native rarely visited his family, but they... - 12/28/09 - 4:29 PM ... video \| more
	> > Pete Hicks: Who Cut the Tree? // GRANVILLE COUNTY: Denise Hicks likes motorcycles, but she never wanted the ride in early May to become such a longstanding event. - 10/15/09 - 12:38 PM ... video \| more
	> > Creg Johnson: Barber Shop Murder // CUMBERLAND COUNTY: It has become a sad yearly tradition for Linda and Vernice Thomas. They get up early in the morning a week before Thanksgiving and drive from their home in Greensboro to Fayetteville. - 12/28/09 - 4:29 PM ... video \| more
	> > Brittany Lynn Locklear: Bus Stop Abduction // HOKE COUNTY: The 5-year-old girl was waiting for the school bus at the end of her driveway when it happened. - 06/17/09 - 3:02 PM ... video \| more
	> > Linda Meeker: Two Decades Later, Family Still Seeks Closure // SAMPSON COUNTY: 19-year-old Linda Meeker was found stabbed to death on her bathroom floor in 1984. Today, Linda's murder remains unsolved. - 04/03/09 - 2:59 PM ... video \| more
	> > Baby Michael: Infant Tossed Out of Car // CUMBERLAND COUNTY:It’s doubtful the baby ever had a name. He was killed less than a day after he was born. Police don’t know where that was – it could have been in a car, maybe a cheap motel, maybe a closet. - 12/28/09 - 4:29 PM ... video \| more
	> > Bonnie Neighbors: More Tips Needed // JOHNSTON COUNTY: Life was good for Kenneth and Bonnie Neighbors. - 02/26/10 - 11:19 AM ... video \| more
	> > Ruby Ryals: 90-Year-Old Smothered With a Pillow // HARNETT COUNTY: When Wesley Ryals walked into his mother’s home to pick her up for the Thanksgiving holiday, he found her frail body motionless on the bed, the house exactly as he had remembered it. Someone had smothered her with... - 07/11/08 - 3:36 PM ... more
	> > Latasha Sutton: Mom Shot, Baby Nearby // WAYNE COUNTY: Latasha Sutton was 19 years old, changed by the birth of her son from a happy-go-lucky teen to a caring mother. In 2003, she was murdered in her Goldsboro apartment. The case remains unsolved. - 11/13/09 - 9:40 PM ... more
	> > Beth-Ellen Vinson: Girl With Big Dreams // WAKE COUNTY: It's the story of another unsolved murder in Raleigh. In 1994, a 17-year-old beauty queen and dancer left her home in Goldsboro for Raleigh, with dreams of becoming a Broadway dancer. Beth-Ellen Vinson’s parents begged... - 08/18/09 - 9:53 AM ... video \| more
	> > Pamela Mikels Waldher: Remains Found // CUMBERLAND COUNTY: She was a star student and vanished. Now, NC WANTED has discovered her true status. - 03/30/09 - 2:37 PM ... video \| more
	> > Jennifer Kathleen Nielsen: Pregnant Woman Slain Behind Food Mart // WAKE COUNTY: View it online. The Autopsy Report confirms that Jenna died of a single stab wound to her neck. A one-inch-wide wound went 3.7 inches into the left side of Jenna Nielsen's neck, hitting her carotid artery and her internal... - 04/03/09 - 2:54 PM ... video \| more
	> > PHOTO GALLERY: See More Photos of Jenna and Family // PHOTO GALLERY: See More Photos of Jenna and Family - 06/17/09 - 11:57 AM ... more
	> > STORY ARCHIVES: Janet Abaroa Homicide Case // STORY ARCHIVES: Janet Abaroa Homicide Case - 03/02/10 - 2:49 PM ... video \| more
	> > STORY ARCHIVES: Jenna Nielsen Homicide // STORY ARCHIVES: Jenna Nielsen Homicide - 09/28/09 - 5:35 AM ... more
	> > STORY ARCHIVES: Michelle Young Case // STORY ARCHIVES: Michelle Young Case - 01/04/10 - 7:24 PM ... more

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