DNA test identifies victim in decades-old homicide
MONCURE — A killer’s diabolical effort to disguise a slain man’s identity worked for nearly 50 years...
Skeleton found near migrant camp
BENSON — A laborer wandering through the Johnston County woods near a migrant camp three decades ago...
Earrings could be big clue in dead woman’s case
DOVER — A set of earrings found on an unknown woman’s dead body 14 years ago may one day led to her ...
Baby John Nash case entered into NamUs
ROCKY MOUNT — Fifteen years after the discovery of a baby boy’s dead body in a dumpster, information...
Arm tattoo helps identify dismembered body stuffed into different buckets
This week’s case is about remains found in Rocky Mount a year ago. During my research, I found that ...
Victim in 1970s murder case has been identified
PITTSBORO — A partnership between the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office and the N.C. Unidentified Proj...
Cutbacks and unsolved cases
Have cutbacks in a small Cumberland County town affected investigations, including a case of a woman...
Woman's skeleton remains unknown
SPRING LAKE — Found in the Cumberland County woods four decades ago, a woman’s skeleton is all but f...
Not much to go on...
With many of these unidentified body cases, there's just not much to go on. In the case of the homel...
Autopsy: Alcohol contributed to burned man’s death
RALEIGH — A drunken homeless man who burned to death on a mattress in the woods nearly three decades...
Man dragged by train remains a mystery
RALEIGH — Authorities haven’t been able to identify a man dragged to his death by a train 26 years ag...
The value of autopsy reports in skull cases
I've written about skulls a lot in recent weeks. Setting aside beach bones, skull cases are probably...
Killer gave his girlfriend a human skull
GREENSBORO — A human skull wrapped in a blue jean jacket has to rank as one of the most bizarre thin...
Another example of the value of DNA in cold cases
Emerging DNA technology has helped state and local authorities solve a 1992 homicide in North Caroli...
Deep sea fishermen net human skull
NEW BERN — Commercial fishermen in the Atlantic Ocean three decades ago pulled up a human skull with...
Autopsy report for unknown hanged man
This is the two-page autopsy report of a skeleton found in the Bladen County woods in 2002. Read the...
Hunters find hanged man’s skeleton
TAR HEEL — Rabbit hunters in the Bladen County woods found a pile of bones beneath a noose tied to a...
Dog finds human jawbone on NC beach
WILMINGTON — Next to nothing is known about a human jawbone a dog dug out of the sand four years ago...
Unknown man found with bullet holes in his head
RED SPRINGS — A skeleton discovered in the Robeson County woods a decade ago had two bullet holes in...
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Autopsy sketches, photos for Robeson County case
Included here are autopsy sketches and clothing photos of a skeleton with bullet holes in the skull ...
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Sheetz lowers gas prices for July 4 weekend
Sheetz, with several locations in Nash County and surrounding areas, has reduced pain at the pump wi...
Mudcats for America series on deck this week
ZEBULON — The Carolina Mudcats return to Five County Stadium June 28 with a new six-game homestand v...
Sandy Smith, GK Butterfield react to abortion ruling
While Wilson’s congressman decried a Supreme Court decision rejecting a constitutional right to abor...