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# Missing in the Carolinas

By Renee Roberson

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## Posts

- [Ep. 180-The Sun Drop Murders](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/05/ep-180-the-sun-drop-murders/) - On June 13, 2008, 59-year-old Donna Barnhardt, who worked as an office manager at the Sun-Drop Bottling Company in Concord, North Carolina, was preparing to leave work early to travel to Myrtle Beach for a family vacation. Sun-Drop company president John King, his wife Connie, and their daughter were also on vacation at Oak Island
- [Episode 177-Missing and Murdered at the Beach](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/05/episode-177-missing-and-murdered-at-the-beach/) - One of North Carolina’s oldest missing persons cases involves a 36-year-old mother and her 4-year-old daughter who disappeared from Carolina Beach, and their extended family has been searching for answers for years. They thought the mystery might have been solved in 2008, but unfortunately, that also turned out to be a dead end. Leila Lewis
- [Ep. 178-Who Killed Cora Lee Hamby?](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/05/ep-178-who-killed-cora-lee-hamby/) - On May 25, 1989, 10-year-old Cora Hamby left her family’s residence and walked to a nearby Food Lion grocery store in the Southland Shopping Center on Shelton Avenue in Statesville. It was 8 p.m., and the sun had not yet set. Once at the store Cora used a pay phone to call and ask her
- [Episode 176-The Unsolved Murders of Stacey Brooke Holsonback and Norsaadah Husain](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/04/episode-176-the-unsolved-murders-of-stacey-brooke-holsonback-and-norsaadah-husain/) - Thirty-year-old Norsaadah Husain, a graduate student from Malaysia, was working on a doctorate degree in food technology from Clemson University. She lived alone in a small mobile home not far from the campus. She was scheduled to finish her degree in May 1993 and planned to return home to Malaysia to teach at a local
- [Episode 175-What Happened to Gayle McCaffrey and Lisa McBride?](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/04/episode-175-what-happened-to-gayle-mccaffrey-and-lisa-mcbride/) - On March 18, 2012, a man named Robert McCaffrey, who went by Bob, called police from his West Ashley home near Charleston, South Carolina, to report his wife missing around 5 p.m. He said the two had gone out to dinner the day before around 2:30 p.m. When they returned home, they got into an
- [Episode 174-The Murder of Janet Abaroa in Durham](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/04/episode-174-the-murder-of-janet-abaroa-in-durham/) - On April 26, 2005, police in Durham, North Carolina responded to a home 2606 Ferrand Drive, after receiving a frantic phone call around 10 p.m. Twenty-five-year-old Raven Abaroa had returned home from a soccer game to find his wife, Janet, deceased in their home. He told police at first he thought she’d been shot because
- [Episode 172-The Disappearance of Jimmy Dale Whitfield and Charlotte's "Boxcar Boy"](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/03/episode-172-the-disappearance-of-jimmy-dale-whitfield-and-charlottes-boxcar-boy/) - In March of 1987, 29-year-old Jimmy Dale Whitfield disappeared from Seneca, South Carolina. At the time, he was living with his wife Wanda and their two children off Route 3, which is now Whitfield Lane. Here’s a little more about Jimmy. He was born on March 28, 1957, to Selena and Fred Whitfield. Fred passed
- [Episode 171-Jeffrey "The Roofman" Manchester](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/03/episode-172-jeffrey-the-roofman-manchester/) - On June15, 2004, a prisoner went missing from the Brown Creek Correctional Institution in Anson County. Local media reported the prisoner, 32-year-old Jeffrey Manchester, likely escaped the grounds by hanging on to the undercarriage of a truck as it was leaving the prison’s metal plant. Manchester had been assigned to work in the plant, which
- [Episode 173-Springtime Disappearances in South Carolina](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/04/episode-173-springtime-disappearances-in-south-carolina/) - In Episode 149, I shared the story of Phonesia Machado-Fore, who was a 52-year-old mother and grandmother from Pee Dee, South Carolina when she went missing in March of 2024. She had worked as a paramedic for Florence County EMS since 2017, and her EMS director described as being very happy-go-lucky. He said that “She
- [Episode 170-The Murder of Sherri Jackson in North Carolina](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/03/episode-170-the-murder-of-sherri-jackson-in-north-carolina/) - The week after Thanksgiving in 2006, friends and family of 27-year-old Sherri Jackson were concerned. She didn’t attend a party she’d RSVP’d for and no one had heard from her. They knew she wouldn’t leave town without telling anyone or notifying her job. Sherri failed to pick up her paycheck from Shipman Family Care the
- [Episode 169-Cases of Cyberstalking in the Carolinas](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/02/episode-169-cases-of-cyberstalking-in-the-carolinas/) - I first shared the heartbreaking story of Mica Miller’s death in Episode 112. At the time of her death, many suspected her estranged husband John-Paul Miller of being involved. While he was able to physically prove he was not with Mica when she took her life at a North Carolina state park, her friends and
- [Episode 168-Austin Thompson and the Hedingham Mass Shooting in Raleigh](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/02/episode-168-austin-thompson-and-the-hedingham-mass-shooting-in-raleigh/) - A little after 5 p.m. on October 13, 2022, Raleigh-Wake Emergency Communications received a call that a victim had been shot in the Hedingham subdivision in northeastern Raleigh. The neighborhood bordered the Neuse River Greenway Trail, which is part of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. The caller reported the shooter was dressed in camouflage and carrying a
- [Episode 167-When Love Turns Deadly](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/02/episode-167-when-love-turns-deadly/) - I first shared the story of Nikki McPhatter in the early days of the podcast, in Episode 8. Nikki McPhatter was a 30-year-old woman working in Charlotte at the time of her disappearance. A goal-oriented person who always seemed to know what that next step was, she joined the Navy shortly after graduating from high
- [Episode 166-An Interview with Helen St. Clair](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/02/episode-166-an-interview-with-helen-st-clair/) - Listen to the full interview here.
- [Episode 165-End-of-Year Review](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2026/01/episode-165-end-of-year-review/) - For the second year in a row, I released weekly episodes with a few exceptions. Because this podcast has been running for five years now, I decided to repurpose older content about once a month and release it as part of the regular schedule. For example, I’ve shared various folklore and stories of ghostly apparitions
- [Episode 164-The Abduction and Murder of Peg Cuttino in South Carolina](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/12/episode-164-the-abduction-and-murder-of-peg-cuttino-in-south-carolina/) - Margaret “Peg” Cuttino was born and raised in Sumter County, South Carolina. She was the daughter of South Carolina state senator James Cuttino, a democrat. Peg was 13 years old and an eighth grader at Alice Drive Junior High School. She played on the school’s varsity basketball team. Peg had grown up campaigning for her
- [Episode 163-Interview with Stephanie Tinsley, Host/Creator of "Everything They Missed"](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/12/episode-163-interview-with-stephanie-tinsley-host-creator-of-everything-they-missed/) - While Tennessee native Stephanie Tinsley has always been a fan of true crime, she never expected to make the career pivot into podcaster. After her family became part of a national murder trial in South Carolina, she wondered how she could make a difference in the justice system. Her podcast, "Everything They Missed," explores a
- [Episode 162-Interview with Dick Harpootlian, Author of "Dig Me a Grave"](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/12/episode-162-interview-with-dick-harpootlian-author-of-dig-me-a-grave/) - If the name Dick Harpootlian sounds familiar to you, it's probably because he was involved in one of the most high-profile murder cases in the past 20 years. He was one of Alex Murdaugh's defense attorneys in South Carolina, and represented Alex during his trial in 2023. One of the most notorious criminals Harpootlian ever
- [Episode 161-Missing in November](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/11/episode-161-missing-in-november/) - I first talked about the disappearance of Jeffrey Mays and Ted Wallin Episode 120. On November 13, 1980, 21-year-old Harold Jeffrey Mays, who went by Jeffrey, boarded his boat, the Sea Ox, with a friend, 21-year-old Ted Wall, off Cape Hatteras in North Carolina. Jeffrey had grown up in Pennsylvania, the son of a father
- [Episode 160-Todd Kohlhepp's Crimes in South Carolina](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/11/episode-160-todd-kohlhepps-crimes-in-south-carolina/) - In 2016, a South Carolina couple went missing and their families knew something was wrong, especially when their Facebook accounts seemed to remain active. With the use of their cell phone data, investigators quickly zeroed in on the last location the man and woman had visited, and what they found there was terrifying. But not
- [Episode 159-The Murder of Michelle Young in Raleigh](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/11/episode-159-the-murder-of-michelle-young-in-raleigh/) - The Enchanted Oaks subdivision in Raleigh lived up to its name, with traditional-style homes, tree-lined streets with lampposts, and basketball hoops in driveways, like something you’d see out of a sit-com or family movie. But on November 3, 2006, that neighborhood’s quiet existence was shattered when residents noticed a police presence at 5108 Birchleaf Drive.
- [Episode 158-The Murder of Dr. Joe Smith in Lancaster, S.C.](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/10/episode-158-the-murder-of-dr-joe-smith-in-lancaster-s-c/) - 51-year-old Dr. Joe Smith was a fixture around the Lancaster, South Carolina community for many years. He had a practice as a general practitioner, worked as the jail physician for Chester County and the city, and the assistant coroner for Lancaster County. He’d grown up in Anderson, where his father was employed by Swift and
- [Episode 157-Stories of Spirits from the Carolinas](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/10/episode-157-stories-of-spirits-from-the-carolinas/) - Renee discusses origin stories from Carolina folklore, whether or not places can hold onto spiritual energy, and why so many universities seem to be haunted. Episodes Mentioned: Ep. 16-Ghostly Tales from the Carolinas Ep. 22-Two True Tales from the Carolinas Ep. 31-Where Are the Children?
- [Episode 156-Helen Gibbs and Susan Haire, Deaths on the Parkway](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/10/episode-156-helen-gibbs-and-susan-haire-deaths-on-the-parkway/) - The North Carolina mountains are a beautiful place to visit, but we’ve had many occurrences of people getting lost on hikes or getting injured or falling off treacherous spots or overlooks. In Episode 105, I shared the story of a group of hikers who got lost outside of the Linville Gorge, a hiker who fell
- [Episode 155-The Murder of Cati Blauvelt from South Carolina](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/10/episode-155-the-murder-of-cati-blauvelt-from-south-carolina/) - Today I want to discuss the case of a young woman who was murdered as she was trying to leave an abusive partner and the toxic environment he had created in their home. Like Mary Ann Willis’s story, it also involves a partner with ties to the U.S. Army at the time of the crime.
- [Episode 154-Five Crimes from the North Carolina Mountains](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/09/episode-154-five-crimes-from-the-north-carolina-mountains/) - Pulling from the catalogue, Renee discusses the cold cases of Nancy Morgan from Madison County, Beverly Sherman and Pamela Murray from Asheville, the solved murder of Denise Durham from East Flat Rock, and the workplace shooting of Michelle Marlowe in Hickory.
- [Episode 153-The Murder of Janet Siclari in Nags Head and the Unsolved Murder of Denise Johnson in Kill Devil Hills](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/09/episode-153-the-murder-of-janet-siclari-in-nags-head-and-the-unsolved-murder-of-denise-johnson-in-kill-devil-hills/) - In August of 1993, a woman vacationing on the Outer Banks made the fateful decision to spend an extra night at the beach. The next morning, her body was discovered in the sand within few hundred feet of her hotel room. She’d been sexually assaulted and stabbed to death. This type of murder was almost
- [Episode 152-The Unsolved Murder of Cynthia Kirk and the Death of Giovanni Pelletier](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/08/episode-152-the-unsolved-murder-of-cynthia-kirk-and-the-death-of-giovanni-pelletier/) - A few weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a listener named Ashley Hester. She said her father, Detective T.A. Hester, had worked for the Durham Police Department for 30 years. While Ashley’s father is now deceased, there was one case in particular he was never able to solve that really ate away at him.
- [Episode 151-Missing and Murdered Students and Spirits in Carolina Schools](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/08/episode-151-missing-and-murdered-students-and-spirits-in-carolina-schools/) - Episode 151 pulls stories from the following episodes: Ep. 42: Missing, Murdered, and Mistaken Identity in the Carolinas Ep. 97: Chapel Hill/Carrboro Crimes from the 1980s Ep. 63: Hania Aguilar, Victoria Paredes, Maria Diaz, and Scott Johnson Ep. 29: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in N.C., Part 1 Ep. 16: Ghostly Tales from
- [Episode 150-The Murders of Antoinetta McKoy and Jadon Higganbothan in Durham, N.C.](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/08/episode-150-the-murders-of-antoinetta-mckoy-and-jadon-higganbothan-in-durham-n-c/) - In late 2010, two people went missing from Durham, North Carolina. Both were connected to one man, a 27-year-old who exerted a powerful influence over his friends and the women he brought into his life. While it didn’t take investigators long to figure out what had happened to the missing woman and young boy, they
- [Episode 149-The Murders of Christina Parcell and Phonesia Machado-Fore in South Carolina](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/07/episode-149-the-murders-of-christina-parcell-and-phonesia-machado-fore-in-south-carolina/) - In the fall of 2021, a 41-year-old veterinary technician and mom was found murdered at her residence in Greer, South Carolina, the crime scene covered in rose petals. As investigators learned more about the victim, they found a history of relationships with controlling, older men and shocking evidence on USB drives in the home, along
- [Episode 148-An Insider's Look at Researching and Reporting on True Crime](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/07/episode-148-an-insiders-look-at-researching-and-reporting-on-true-crime/) - When I attended MurderCon, a conference designed for writers interested in crime, I began developing the concept for this podcast. I’m passionate about covering stories that are often left out of the media, cold cases, and teaching people the importance of situational self-awareness. I used my curiosity to start up this podcast about missing people
- [Episode 147-A Conversation with Hope Andersen, North Carolina-Based Author of MotherLove and Other Works](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/07/episode-147-a-conversation-with-hope-andersen-north-carolina-based-author-of-motherlove-and-other-works/) - For this episode, I share an inspirational interview with Hope Andersen, the author of five books. You'll enjoy learning about her unique creative journey. Her latest release is suspense/thriller MotherLove, out now with Warren Publishing. We talk all things writing, the different ways she published her books, and what she loves about living in North
- [Episode 146-The Unsolved Murder of Brenda Holland in the OBX, Part 2](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/07/episode-146-the-unsolved-murder-of-brenda-holland-in-the-obx-part-2/) - In the summer of 1967, a 19-year-old young woman named Brenda Holland was excited to take a job with the Lost Colony outdoor drama on the Outer Banks. But only a month after the Western Carolina native arrived, she went missing late one night after a date with a fellow cast member. When her body
- [Episode 145-The Unsolved Murder of Brenda Holland in the OBX, Part 1](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/06/episode-145-the-unsolved-murder-of-brenda-holland-in-the-obx-part-1/) - North Carolina native and actor Andy Griffith got his start in The Lost Colony twenty years before 19-year-old Brenda Holland went missing, first playing a soldier, and then later the character of Sir Walter Raleigh. After the nightly performances he would perfect his comedic routines at a local club, before eventually finding success in Hollywood
- [Episode 144-Summertime Disappearances and a Cold Case in the Carolinas](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/06/episode-144-summertime-disappearances-and-a-cold-case-in-the-carolinas/) - In episode 32, “Missing Teen Girls in North Carolina,” I shared the story a young woman named Sherri Lee Truesdale. Sherri’s story is another one of those cases that doesn’t have a lot of background information because she went missing such a long time ago, but family members have not given up on the idea
- [Episode 143-The Bellamy Brothers Bank Robberies in North and South Carolina](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/06/episode-143-the-bellamy-brothers-bank-robberies-in-north-and-south-carolina/) - In the 1990s, Horry, Georgetown, and Marion counties experienced a rise in bank robberies. According to the Sun News, 16 bank robberies occurred in the area in 1997. Only about 18 percent of money was able to be recovered, and investigators found it thanks to dye packs that had been thrown into the bags of
- [Episode 142-The Loomis Fargo Robbery in Charlotte](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/06/episode-142-the-loomis-fargo-robbery-in-charlotte/) - In this podcast, we cover a lot of dark topics around missing people and other true crime. For this week, I wanted to do something a little more lighthearted. It still centers around a disappearance in the Carolinas, but in this case it was the disappearance of money, and a lot of it. In 2016,
- [Episode 141-Cold Cases and Crimes from Iredell County: An Interview with Shellie Taylor](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/05/episode-141-cold-cases-and-crimes-from-iredell-county-an-interview-with-shellie-taylor/) - A few years ago, I was meeting with a few likeminded people in my community to discuss the details of Lue Cree Overcash Westmoreland’s still-unsolved murder from 1937. One of those people was Shellie Taylor, who works with the Iredell County Public Library. Of course we immediately began chatting about a few other mysterious stories
- [Episode 140-The Kidnapping and Murder of Mary Kathryn Ennis and the Death of William McMichael](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/05/episode-140-the-kidnapping-and-murder-of-mary-kathryn-ennis-and-the-death-of-william-mcmichael/) - In 1986, 28-year-old Mary Kathryn Ennis and her husband were separated, and she was living alone with her 7-year-old son, Andy in Hillsborough. Many of her neighbors described her as being a devoted and caring mother. Her neighbor two doors down, James W. Jones, said that he had “never seen a woman more devoted to
- [Episode 139-An Interview with Helen Zuman](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/05/episode-139-an-interview-with-helen-zuman/) - In 1999, fresh out of Harvard University, Helen Zuman began seeking out a place where she could practice communal living and learn more about organic farming and homesteading. The place turned out to be Zendik Farm in Western North Carolina. When she left five years later, she slowly realized the leader had been operating the
- [Episode 138-Murdered by Poison: The Deaths of Sandy Coulthard, Eric Miller, and Stacy Hunsucker](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/05/episode-138-murdered-by-poison-the-deaths-of-sandy-coulthard-eric-miller-and-stacy-hunsucker/) - On July 9, 1988, 30-year-old High Point, North Carolina resident Sandra Coulthard passed away at Duke University Medical Center. She’d been sick for about six months with vomiting, diarrhea, vomiting, and numbness of her feet and fingers. Doctors had diagnosed her with Guillain-Barre (Ghee-yan Bah-ray) syndrome and had been treating her for it, but her
- [Episode 137-Mental Health Awareness and Missing Persons Cases](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/05/episode-137-mental-health-awareness-and-missing-persons-cases/) - According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 1 in 5 people experience mental illness each year. Their website states: A mental health condition isn’t the result of one event. Research suggests multiple, linking causes. Genetics, environment, and lifestyle influence whether someone develops a mental health condition. A stressful job or home life makes some
- [Episode 136-Down the True Crime Rabbit Hole](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/04/episode-136-down-the-true-crime-rabbit-hole/) - I have one of those journals I got as a gift with a positive affirmation stamped on the front cover in cursive. It tells me how beautiful, smart, and talented I am and says I am going to do amazing things. But if you open the notebook, you might be surprised at what you find
- [Episode 135-The Crimes of Lee Roy Martin, The Gaffney Strangler](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/04/episode-135-the-crimes-of-lee-roy-martin-the-gaffney-strangler/) - In 1968, the town of Gaffney was much smaller, quieter, in the midst of integrating black students into schools that had been predominantly white up until that point. Lyndon B. Johnson was the president of the United States and daily headlines reported on the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. People in the community thought
- [Episode 134-Missing and Murdered While on Vacation](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/04/episode-134-missing-and-murdered-while-on-vacation/) - The case of Jock and Jane Doe was featured on “Unsolved Mysteries” on January 20, 1995. The couple was discovered in August of 1976 in Sumter, South Carolina on a rural road by a trucker passing through. They had both been shot multiple times. They both appeared to be in their 20s, with the man
- [Episode 130-The 1972 Murders of Bryce, Virginia, and Bobby Durham in Boone](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/03/episode-129-the-1972-murders-of-bryce-virginia-and-bobby-durham-in-boone/) - On a snowy night in February of 1972, the small, quiet town of Boone, North Carolina was the site of a shocking triple homicide. This horrific crime stunned the community—things like this just didn’t happen in the mountain town, home to Appalachian State University. Not only that, but the victims owned a successful business, and
- [Episode 133-The Murders of Kristin Lodge-Miller and Eve Carson](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/03/episode-133-the-murders-of-kristin-lodge-miller-and-eve-carson/) - On the morning of July 15, 1993, 26-year-old Chapel Hill resident Kristin Lodge-Miller left her apartment for her daily run. Kristin was an avid runner who kept a log of her routes and times in a journal at home. She lived in a residential neighborhood but was still apprehensive about jogging alone, so her husband
- [Episode 132-The Murders of Curtis Bane and Thaddeus Hayes in North Carolina](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/03/episode-132-the-murders-of-curtis-bane-and-thaddeus-hayes-in-north-carolina/) - On July 10, 1985, Curtis Bane, age 55, and Thaddeus Hayes, age 24, failed to return home after working on a fence on Curtis’s property on N.C. 10, about five miles west of Durham. Curtis’s wife, Dorothy, said the two men had eaten lunch at their home and then planned to go back to the
- [Episode 131-An Interview with Terry Harmon, Author of "Convoluted"](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/03/episode-131-an-interview-with-terry-harmon-author-of-convoluted/) - Terry Harmon is a native and lifelong resident of Watauga County and has a deep interest in genealogy and local history. He is a graduate of Appalachian State University in Boone and has worked at Samaritan’s Purse, also in Boone, for more than twenty-eight years. He was six years old when the Durham family, which lived
- [Episode 129-The Polaroid](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/02/episode-129-the-polaroid/) - This episode features something a bit different. I share my award-winning short story, "The Polaroid," which was inspired by the Tara Calico disappearance from New Mexico in 1988. It received first place in the Suspense/Thriller Category of Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Awards in 2018.
- [Episode 128-Four North Carolina Serial Killers](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/02/episode-128-four-north-carolina-serial-killers/) - When people find out I have a true crime podcast, it often sparks discussions of related cold cases and serial killers. I’m asked, “have you written about this, or done a podcast about that?” Most of the time, I’m familiar with the topics, and have usually covered them, but I know not everyone has listened
- [Episode 127-The Murders of Patricia Mann and Jesse McBane and the Disappearance of Asha Degree](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/02/episode-127-the-murders-of-patricia-mann-and-jesse-mcbane-and-the-disappearance-of-asha-degree/) - On February 12, 1971, a young couple went missing in the Durham area after attending a dance at a local nursing school together. Patricia Ann Mann, age 20, was a junior at the Watts School of Nursing, and Jesse Allen McBane, 19, was then a freshman at North Carolina State University studying textile technology. They
- [Episode 126-The Disappearance of Mabel Seymour and the Mystery of Wilma X](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/02/episode-126-the-disappearance-of-mabel-seymour-and-the-mystery-of-wilma-x/) - In Episode 73, I compiled several different stories that featured missing persons from the Carolinas that involved Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. This included 68-year-old Young Chang, who went missing from the Mount Pisgah Care Home in Candler, North Carolina in 2004. He had only just moved into the home from Atlanta, Georgia when he left
- [Episode 125-The Murder of Stephanie Bennett](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/01/episode-125-the-murder-of-stephanie-bennett/) - January is National Stalking Awareness Month, and while the majority of victims know their stalker personally, whether it’s an ex-partner, friend, family member or colleague, there are also instances where a person is attacked, or in the most extreme cases, murdered by someone they had no idea was stalking them. This is what happened in
- [Episode 124-An Interview with Brian and Cameron Santana](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/01/episode-124-an-interview-with-brian-and-cameron-santana/) - Several years ago, I heard about an unsolved murder that took place on my college campus back in 1973. I wrote a blog post about it and was surprised when I received messages from people thanking me for bringing attention to the case, where 19-year-old Virginia Olson was brutally sexually assaulted and murdered. I dug
- [Episode 123-Five Things I Learned About the Murdaugh Family While Reading "The Devil at His Elbow"](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2025/01/episode-123-five-things-i-learned-about-the-murdaugh-family-while-reading-the-devil-at-his-elbow/) - True crime has always been a popular genre in nonfiction books, and with the rise of independent presses and self-publishing options, the publication of true crime books has only risen in recent years. Throw in a murder trial that riveted people nationwide, whether they were familiar with the region or not, and you’ll find more
- [Episode 122-A Look Back at 2024](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/12/episode-122-a-look-back-at-2024/) - Well, if you’re like me you no longer no what day it is during this holiday season. This past year has been a hectic one, and due to a lot of different factors, I decided to take a break from producing new episodes after Thanksgiving to regroup and give myself a break to spend time
- [Episode 121-The 1981 Murders of Edward "Doc" Harkless, Ralph Felder, Maxlinia Lykes, and Leroy Hemphill in South Carolina](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/11/episode-121-the-1981-murders-of-edward-doc-harkless-ralph-felder-maxlinia-lykes-and-leroy-hemphill-in-south-carolina/) - On September 29, 1981, a gruesome murder scene greeted law enforcement officers off Knightner Road in Columbia, South Carolina. The headline in “The Morning News” that day read, “Four people were shot to death and two others wounded Tuesday in what authorities called a “vicious massacre” in a home equipped with an altar for the
- [Episode 120-Jeffrey Mays, Ted Wall, Bill Hollingsworth, and the Missing in America Program for Veterans](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/11/episode-120-jeffrey-mays-ted-wall-bill-hollingsworth-and-the-missing-in-america-program-for-veterans/) - This past Monday our country celebrated Veterans Day, which is the federal holiday created to honor military veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. A sad note is that according to the Department of Veterans Affairs, approximately 21,000 veterans still await burials, some dating all the way back to the Civil War. In 2007, a nonprofit
- [Episode 119-The 1933 South Carolina Murders of Mary Ravenel and Hubbard Harris, Jr.](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/11/episode-119-the-1933-south-carolina-murders-of-mary-ravenel-and-hubbard-harris-jr/) - On Nov. 1, 1933, around 10 p.m., the city of Charleston, S.C. was stunned when two passersby discovered a 64-year-old woman named Mary Ravenel gravely injured on Meeting Street, just north of Water Street near her home. Mary was on her way home from eating dinner at the Fort Sumter Hotel with friends. Thinking the
- [Episode 118-The Murders of Mike and Cathy Scott, Barbara Scott, Violet Taylor and the Disappearance of Leonna Wright](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/10/episode-118-the-murders-of-mike-and-cathy-scott-barbara-scott-violet-taylor-and-the-disappearance-of-leonna-wright/) - On the afternoon of Nov. 2 2015, Amy Vilardi left her home on Refuge Road in Pendleton, South Carolina and went to visit her mom and stepfather, Cathy and Mike Scott, who lived next door with their two elderly mothers. The Scotts lived in a double wide mobile home and Amy and her husband Ross
- [Episode 117-An Interview with Rachel Workman, Owner of Ghosts of Davidson](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/10/episode-117-an-interview-with-rachel-workman-owner-of-ghosts-of-davidson/) - Rachel Workman owns Ghosts of Davidson, a ghost tour located in Davidson, North Carolina, just a few miles outside of Lake Norman. She’s lived in the area with her husband Chris and their three kids for more than 20 years, and when the opportunity to take over Ghosts of Davidson fell into their laps, they
- [Episode 114-The Murders of Bonnie Lou Irvine in Troutman and Andy Banks in Raleigh](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/09/episode-114-the-murders-of-bonnie-lou-irvine-in-troutman-and-andy-banks-in-raleigh/) - In February of 2008, the roommate of 52-year-old Bonnie Lou Irvine, a Cornelius resident, reported the woman missing. Investigators with the Cornelius Police Department looked at her phone and e-mail records and noticed her last communication was with a man named Bernard Lamp, who was going by the name George Lamp. She’d responded to an
- [Episode 116-Mary Ann Willis and Dara Watson, Two Stories of Domestic Violence](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/10/episode-116-mary-ann-willis-and-dara-watson-two-stories-of-domestic-violence/) - October is the designated month for bringing awareness to Domestic Violence, but it is a topic I believe we should be talking about year round, as it still remains a prevalent issue in our society. I’ve discussed several cases tied to domestic violence in this podcast, including Nancy Cooper, from Episode 18, Missing runners in
- [Episode 115-The Murders of Ashley Pegram, Nicole Lovell, and Joseph Emmett Naulty](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/10/episode-115-the-murders-of-ashley-pegram-nicole-lovell-and-joseph-emmett-naulty/) - On April 4, 2015, 28-year-old Ashley Pegram, who was the mother of three small children, went missing after making plans to spend the evening with a man she’d met on a dating app, specifically on one called “Meet Me.” Pegram had been devastated after losing her boyfriend in a car accident a few months earlier,
- [Episode 113-The Murder of Michael Hunter in Raleigh and the Ruth Buchanan Cold Case](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/09/episode-113-the-murder-of-michael-hunter-in-raleigh-and-the-ruth-buchanan-cold-case/) - On April 30, 1992 Joseph Mannino, a fourth-year medical student at the University of North Carolina living in northwest Raleigh, called 911 to report one of his roommates, 23-year-old Michael Hunter, was deceased in his bedroom. Mannino at first told police that he gave Hunter an injection of Benadryl and Vistaril—both antihistimines—for help with a
- [Episode 112-Deaths by Suicide-Nathaniel and Irene Witherspoon, Leslie and William Cargile, John Barnett, and Mica Miller](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/09/episode-112-deaths-by-suicide-nathaniel-and-irene-witherspoon-leslie-and-william-cargile-john-barnett-and-mica-miller/) - This week marks National Suicide Prevention Week, which is an annual campaign designed to educate the general public about suicide prevention and the warning signs of suicide. This is a topic that resonates with so many of us. Chances are, you have a close friend or family member who has died by suicide or has
- [Episode 110-Four 1992 Deaths in Burke and Catawba Counties](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/08/episode-110-four-1992-deaths-in-burke-and-catawba-counties/) - A listener recently e-mailed me an article link about a cold case out of Catawba County. When I started reading about the unsolved murder of 13-year-old Isis Dee Dee Dawkins, I realized there was a connected story about a series of murders and suspicious deaths that took place during the summer of 1992, and it
- [Episode 108-The Capture of Eric Rudolph, Part 2](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/08/episode-108-the-capture-of-eric-rudolph-part-2/) - Around 4 a.m. on May 31, 2003, 21-year-old rookie police officer Jeff Postell was making a second run patrolling the area behind the Valley Village shopping center in the town of Murphy, which at the time had under 2,000 residents, when he noticed a man ducking behind some milk crates at the Sav-A-Lot. Postell took
- [Episode 109-Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and the PTL Scandal](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/08/episode-109-jim-and-tammy-faye-bakker-and-the-ptl-scandal/) - In the 1980s, an evangelical couple named Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker were literally everywhere, preaching the gospel through their own broadcasting network, living a lavish lifestyle, and building a grandiose Christian-theme park and accompanying on-site hotel in Ft. Mill, South Carolina. It didn’t matter what faith was, there was no way you didn’t know
- [Episode 111-The Murder of Jeni Gray and the Abduction of Leigh Cooper in Boone](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/09/episode-111-the-murder-of-jeni-gray-and-the-abduction-of-leigh-cooper-in-boone/) - Located in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Appalachian State University is a four-year-college that also has a satellite campus in Hickory. The school was founded 125 years ago when Dr. B.B. Dougherty, his brother D.D. Dougherty, and D.D.’s wife, Lillie began dreaming of a way to help children in the state participate in
- [Episode 107: Eric Rudolph, The Escape, Part 1](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/08/episode-107-eric-rudolph-the-escape-part-1/) - On July 27, 1996, a bomb exploded in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta during the Summer Olympic Games. Alice Hawthorne, a 44-year-old businesswoman and resident of Albany, Georgia, had decided at the last-minute to take her 14-year-old daughter Fallon to the celebration. She loved Atlanta and often traveled there to shop and attend events. She
- [Episode 106: The Little Rascals Day Care Case](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/07/episode-106-the-little-rascals-day-care-case/) - In 1980, a memoir titled “Michelle Remembers” chronicled a woman’s experience of childhood torture inflicted by a satanic cult. Canadian resident Michelle Smith recovered these memories, which allegedly occurred over a 14-month period when she was five years old, while working with her psychiatrist Larry Pazder. Michelle and Larry did an extensive media and book
- [Episode 105: Missing and Murdered in the High Country](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/07/episode-105-missing-and-murdered-in-the-high-country/) - My family recently returned from a vacation in the High Country area of North Carolina. The High Country includes a wide array of places such as Beech Mountain, Boone, Blowing Rock, Linville Falls, West Jefferson, Sparta, Wilkesboro. We had a fantastic time and made sure to fill our days with outdoor activities. We did a
- [Episode 104: The Enrique Roman-Martinez Cold Case from North Carolina](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/07/episode-104-the-enrique-roman-martinez-cold-case-from-north-carolina/) - I discussed wilderness therapy camps and Trails Carolina in Lake Toxaway specifically in Episode 88. Trails Carolina was founded in 2008, with the belief that a wilderness setting enhances the benefits of therapy. It accepts children ages 10-17 on wilderness expeditions, and therapists are supposed to meet with the campers on a weekly basis. The
- [Episode 103: The Mysterious Life and Death of Doris Duke](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/06/episode-103-the-mysterious-life-and-death-of-doris-duke/) - Doris Duke was born into an extreme amount of wealth. Her grandfather, Washington Duke, helped establish a thriving tobacco business in North Carolina with other farmers following the Civil War. When he died, the business was passed on to his son, James Buchanan, who formed the American Tobacco Company in 1890. James also founded the
- [Episode 102: Pamela Hoy, Jennifer Patterson, Cecil Chacon, Jr., KC Johnson, and Operation Artemis](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/06/episode-102-pamela-hoy-jennifer-patterson-cecil-chacon-jr-kc-johnson-and-operation-artemis/) - On July 25,1990, 41-year-old Pamela Hoy had dinner with her husband Fred Hoy at a Burlington restaurant, and then went home and packed her gray Dodge van with her clothes and grooming tables, exercise runs, and crates. Pam raised and showed Italian greyhounds and was preparing for a trip that would take her to South
- [Episode 101: Madalina Cojocari, Crystal Morrison, Marty Teague, Lisa Thompson and Russell Anthony](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/06/episode-101-madalina-cojocari-crystal-morrison-marty-teague-lisa-thompson-and-russell-anthony/) - Last month, the trial of 62-year-old Christopher Palmiter, the stepfather of missing Cornelius girl Madalina Cojocari, began. He was charged with failing to report eleven-year-old Madalina missing. Madalina’s mother, 39-year-old Diana Cojocari, pleaded guilty of the same charge last month and has already been released for time served. I’ve discussed this case in Episode 52
- [Episode 100-Conversations with Podcast Guests from Missing in the Carolinas](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/06/episode-100-conversations-with-podcast-guests-from-missing-in-the-carolinas/) - Today marks a monumental day in the life of this podcast. Missing in the Carolinas officially has 100 episodes! Sometimes I still find it hard to believe I’ve been able to keep it going for so long. Yes, I’ve changed up the format a few times and taken a few hiatuses. But I am very
- [Episode 99-What Causes a Person to Go Missing?](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/05/episode-99-what-causes-a-person-to-go-missing/) - It’s no secret that children and young people are a vulnerable sector of the population when it comes to crime and missing persons cases. We’ve profiled several different children on “Missing in the Carolinas.” In fact, this week there was news related to the case of Madalina Cojocari, an 11-year-old girl who went missing from
- [Episode 98-Carolina Crimes from the 1950s and 60s](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/05/episode-98-carolina-crimes-from-the-1950s-and-60s/) - The murder of Rachel Crook is one of the oldest cold cases in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, if not the oldest. Rachel was a 71-year old-woman who originated from Alabama, and the daughter of Rev. Davey Crockett Crook, a confederate general. She was well-educated, having attended Vanderbilt University. She worked as a teacher in high
- [Episode 97-Chapel Hill/Carrboro Crimes from the 1980s](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/05/episode-97-chapel-hill-carrboro-crimes-from-the-1980s/) - Carrie Wikerson and Jean Fewel On February 22, 1984, 7-year-old Carrie Wilkerson failed to report to school at Frank Porter Graham Elementary in Carrboro. That morning, firefighters investigating a fire at the Rocky Brook Trailer Park off South Greensboro Street discovered the body of Carrie in the bedroom closet of her stepmother Norma Shivers’ home.
- [Episode 96-Where are Andy Sigmon and Blake and London Deven?](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/05/episode-96-where-are-andy-sigmon-and-blake-and-london-deven/) - Twenty-three-year-old Andy Sigmon was last seen on April 5, 2016, and while his family knows he is probably not still alive, they remain determined to bring their son home. Here is what we know about the circumstances surrounding Andy’s disappearance. He left his place of work at Renwood Mills in Newton, North Carolina on April
- [Episode 95-Who Murdered Suellen Evans at UNC?](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/04/episode-95-who-murdered-suellen-evans-at-unc/) - Over the years, there have been several different murders that have taken place involving students and staff at the University of North Carolina. In January of 1995, Wendell Williamson, a student at the UNC Law School, wounded a police officer and killed two bystanders when he opened fire on Henderson Street. In March of 2008,
- [Episode 94-Who Murdered Virginia Olson at UNC-Asheville?](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/04/episode-94-who-murdered-virginia-olson-at-unc-asheville/) - On the morning of Sunday, April 15, 1973, Virginia Olson, known as “Ginger” to her friends, awoke on a chilly morning in the Craig Dormitory, located on the campus of UNCA, nestled in the mountains of Western North Carolina. A sophomore dramatics major, Ginger was known for enjoying her alone time. She liked to read,
- [Episode 93-Who Murdered Sharon Jones at Elizabeth City State University?](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/04/episode-93-who-murdered-sharon-jones-at-elizabeth-city-state-university/) - Forty years ago, Sharon Beatrice Jones was murdered on the campus of Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina over spring break. Despite the police interviewing numerous suspects and administering polygraph tests, the case almost immediately went cold, and what's more perplexing is the small digital footprint involving details of the crime. Is there still
- [Episode 92-Brian Neil Hooks and Andy Tench Missing and The Murder of Mary Collins](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/04/episode-92-brian-neil-hooks-and-andy-tench-missing-and-the-murder-of-mary-collins/) - In September of 1988, 21-year-old Brian “Neil” Hooks went missing from the Florence area of South Carolina. According to an article that ran in the Florence Morning News, his sister Amy Turner said Hooks had gone by their parents’ house and said that he and his live-in boyfriend were going to the beach for the
- [Episode 91-Jeremy Grice Missing and the Murders of Crystal Faye Todd and Ann Fox Smith](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/03/episode-91-jeremy-grice-missing-and-the-murders-of-crystal-faye-todd-and-ann-fox-smith/) - On November 22, 1984, a four-year-old little boy vanished in the rain from his parents’ home. Jeremy Grice lived with his mother and step-father, Donna and Nick Arrington, and his 10-month-old sister Christy. His step-father put Jeremy to bed the night before while his mom worked second shift at a local manufacturing plant that made
- [Episode 90-DNA Doe Project Stories from the Southern States](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/03/episode-90-dna-doe-project-stories-from-the-southern-states/) - Since 2017, the DNA Doe Project has worked on more than 200 cases of unidentified remains. With the work of their leadership, countless volunteers, advances in technology, the organization was able to make some of the very first identifications through investigative genetic genealogy. They’ve been able to identify people with dementia who went missing and
- [Episode 89-The Crimes of Henry Louis Wallace](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/03/episode-89-the-crimes-of-henry-louis-wallace/) - In the early 1990s, a string of rapes and murders occurred in East Charlotte. Because the killer used different methods and cleaned up crime scenes, investigators had no idea the murders were connected until he escalated and got sloppy, stealing items from the victims, and leaving evidence behind. Community members became convinced the murders went
- [Episode 88-The Deaths at Trails Carolina](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/03/episode-88-the-deaths-at-trails-carolina/) - On November 10, 2014, a 17-year-old young man named Alec Lansing went missing after he left a group from Trails Carolina, an organization in Western North Carolina that offers wilderness therapy for young adults and children. At the time, Alec, who was from Atlanta, Georgia, had been camping with a group off NC 107 in
- [Episode 87-Missing and Murdered in Columbia, S.C.](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/02/episode-87-missing-and-murdered-in-columbia-n-c/) - Mike O'Boyle On the morning of Tuesday, May 27, 1980, 20-year-old Eugene Carmichael “Mike” O’Boyle left his home in West Columbia and drove to the Shandon area of town to pick up a friend who was going to work on his car. The friend, a 29-year-old student and part-time mechanic named Chris Clifton, was not
- [Episode 86-Review of "The Lesson is Murder," "American Nightmare," and "They Called Him Mostly Harmless](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/02/episode-86-review-of-the-lesson-is-murder-american-nightmare-and-they-called-him-mostly-harmless/) - Today I’m talking about a few different true crime documentaries and series that I think fans of this podcast would enjoy. I tried to make selections from a few different streaming services, since I know most of us don’t have access to everything available. I’ll be discussing the Hulu series “The Lesson is Murder,” the
- [Episode 85-Denise Durham, Shelby Wilkie, and Marissa Carmichael](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/02/episode-85-denise-durham-shelby-wilkie-and-marissa-carmichael/) - Pamela Denise Durham, known as Denise to her friends, was a 16-year-old high school student at East Henderson High School. She lived in East Flat Rock, North Carolina. According to an article that ran in the February 15, 1981 edition of The Asheville Citizen Times, Denise Durham was a model student. She was the secretary
- [Episode 84-The Business of Body Brokers](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/02/episode-84-the-business-of-body-brokers/) - What is a body broker and how do they operate? According to an investigative series by the news organization Reuters, body brokers are also known as non-tissue transplant banks. These banks are different from the organ and tissue industry, which is highly regulated. No federal law currently governs the sale of cadavers or body parts
- [Episode 83-James Chambers, Cole Thomas, and Sydney West](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/01/episode-83-james-chambers-cole-thomas-and-sydney-west/) - A man from Fayetteville gets a ride from a co-worker and is never seen again, until a religious awakening with a murderer brings the secrets to light. Another young man from Florida takes a job out of state while he figures out his next move, abruptly exits his truck while riding with co-workers he doesn’t
- [Episode 82-Deaths of Children with Special Needs](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/01/episode-82-deaths-of-children-with-special-needs/) - A young boy dies at the home of his adoptive parents in what is later found to be the result of swaddling. The boy was only four years old, and his parents had been attempting a controversial parenting therapy before his death. A 10-year-old girl from North Carolina is taken out of state by her
- [Episode 81-National Stalking Awareness Month and Peggy Klinke's Story](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/01/episode-81-national-stalking-awareness-month-and-peggy-klinkes-story/) - January is National Stalking Awareness Month. In January 2003, Debbie Riddle learned her sister Peggy had been murdered by her ex-boyfriend after years of controlling behavior and incidents of stalking. In Episode 81, Debbie shares the story of how her sister's death changed her life and motivated her to begin advocating for change in the
- [Episode 80-The Murder at TCS Designs](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/01/episode-80-the-murder-at-tcs-designs/) - On January 13, 2021, an incident of workplace violence at a manufacturing plant in Hickory, North Carolina resulted in the shooting death of a 51-year-old woman. The shooter, also a female, then left the premises, along with her husband, and evaded law enforcement for more than six months. Immediately following the murder, the victim’s family
- [Episode 78-North Carolina Serial Killer Lesley Eugene Warren](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2023/12/episode-78-north-carolina-serial-killer-lesley-eugene-warren/) - A young man shows signs of violence against women at a young age and is sent to a detention center. There he charms an employee who does not realize how dangerous he will later become. This man will eventually murder four women in three different states, and that may not be the full extent of
- [Episode 79-The Year in Review for Missing in the Carolinas](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2023/12/episode-79-the-year-in-review-for-missing-in-the-carolinas/) - I wanted to do feature an end-of-year analysis this year, because our production schedule has changed and we’ve seen a tremendous amount of growth since December 2021. In this episode I’ll discuss a little bit of the methodology that goes behind creating the episodes, where I get my ideas, and some good old-fashioned stats. I
- [Preview of "Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty"](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2023/11/preview-of-blood-on-their-hands-murder-corruption-and-the-fall-of-the-murdaugh-dynasty/) - When I was researching upcoming book releases on NetGalley this past summer, I noticed Mandy Matney had a memoir coming out about her involvement with the Alex Murdaugh case. I immediately requested the book and was excited to get an advance copy of it. I had listened to her show, “The Murdaugh Murders Podcast” and
- [Episode 73: Missing Senior Citizens from the Carolinas](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2023/11/episode-73-missing-senior-citizens-from-the-carolinas/) - November is Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, so for this episode I wanted to focus on cases that involve senior citizens. Alzheimer’s is a progressive, deadly brain disease for which there is no cure, and it is not a normal part of healthy aging, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. The site explains that researchers are still
- [Episode 69-How to Avoid Being the Victim of a Cybercrime](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2023/10/episode-69-how-to-avoid-being-the-victim-of-a-cybercrime/) - In 2004, the President of the United States and Congress have dedicated this month for the public and private sectors to work together to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity. According to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, this initiative has grown into a collaborative effort between government industry to enhance cybersecurity awareness, encourage
- [Episode 71-Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls from the ECBI](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2023/11/episode-71-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls-from-the-ecbi/) - In 2021 I discussed several cold cases involving indigenous women and girls, including the murder of 5-year-old Brittany Locklear, who was kidnapped and later found murdered in Hoke County. If you’d like to learn more about that case and more, check out Episode 29 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in North Carolina, Part 1. Episode
- [Episode 70-The Oldest Unsolved Murder in Mooresville and Other Spooky Tales](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2023/10/episode-70-the-oldest-unsolved-murder-in-mooresville-and-other-spooky-tales/) - Listen to an interview with Chris Stonestreet, a North Carolina author and historian who has researched the Lue Cree Overcash Westmoreland cold case extensively.
- [Who Killed Lue Cree Overcash Westmoreland in North Carolina?](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2021/10/who-killed-lue-cree-overcash-westmoreland-in-north-carolina/) - When 20-year-old Lue Cree Overcash Westmoreland retired for the evening at the home of her husband’s family on Jan. 19, 1937, no one expected the young bride of only two months would be murdered by the next morning. Lue Cree’s husband, Herman Westmoreland, lived in an apartment during the week so he could be close
- [Episode 65-Made-for-TV Movies Based on N.C. Crimes](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2023/09/episode-65-made-for-tv-movies-based-on-n-c-crimes/) - For many years, before streaming services became the norm, made-for-tv movies were the bread and butter of network television’s advertising revenue. Those networks often relied on true crime books and journalists to help find ideas for their latest projects. In the case of the state of North Carolina, there have been many of these network
- [Episode 64-Hania Aguilar, Victoria Paredes, Maria Diaz, and Scott Johnson](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2023/09/episode-64-hania-aguilar-victoria-paredes-maria-diaz-and-scott-johnson/) - If you’ll remember, in Episode 29, I discussed the unsolved murders of three different women in Lumberton, North Carolina. These were not isolated incidents, unfortunately. In 2018, the community was shaken when a teenage girl was abducted in broad daylight in front of her home. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Like many junior high students
- [Episode 63: The 1995 Shooting on the UNC Campus](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2023/09/episode-63-the-1995-shooting-on-the-unc-campus/) - Last week a graduate student entered an academic lab on the University of North Carolina campus, shooting and killing a respected professor, resulting in an hours-long lockdown of the campus. The student was arrested a short time later and the motive for the murder has not yet been revealed. In 1995, a law student at
- [Georgia Tann and the Tennessee Child Trafficking Scam](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2020/09/georgia-tann-and-the-tennessee-child-trafficking-scam/) - As a parent, it’s an unimaginable scenario. You send your children out to play in the front yard of your rural home in the country, and they are never seen again. Because you are poor with no money and limited resources, no one seems to care that your children are missing. In fact, a social
- [Who Was Mecklenburg Jane Doe?](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2021/03/who-was-mecklenburg-jane-doe/) - Did you know Mecklenburg County in North Carolina has a cold case featuring an unidentified deceased woman whose loved ones may be missing her? Investigators with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department have given her the name of “Mecklenburg County Doe.” On March 17, 2011, the incomplete skeletal remains of a female were found in a wooded
- [Was Lavinia Fisher Really a Murderess?](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2020/10/was-lavinia-fisher-really-a-murderess/) - She was young, beautiful, beguiling and liked to poison the guests at her boarding house in Charleston, S.C. with oleander tea. For centuries, legend had it that Lavinia Fisher was one of America’s first female serial killers, but have the misdeeds of Mrs. Fisher been greatly embellished over time? If you take a tour of Charleston’s Old
- [Who Killed Christina Maria Matos?](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2021/04/who-killed-christina-maria-matos/) - Christina Maria Matos was just trying to help out a friend, but the generosity she was so well known for likely caused her death. Matos had just turned 20 and was living in an apartment in Raleigh, N.C. and working as a server in a couple of different restaurants. Last semester she had taken courses
- [The Unsolved Murder of Virginia Olson in North Carolina](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2020/08/the-unsolved-murder-of-virginia-olson-in-north-carolina/) - The University of North Carolina at Asheville will always have a special place in my heart, because it was at that small college that I came into my own as a journalist. The small class sizes afforded me the ability to work closely with other students and talented professors who wanted me to succeed. For

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- [Mating in Captivity](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/mating-in-captivity/)
- [Mary Kathryn Ennis](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/mary-kathryn-ennis/)
- [William McMichael III](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/william-mcmichael-iii/)
- [Joseph David Annadale](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/joseph-david-annadale/)
- [Shellie Taylor](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/shellie-taylor/)
- [famous heists](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/famous-heists/)
- [Hillbilly Heist](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/hillbilly-heist/)
- [Loomis Fargo Robbery](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/loomis-fargo-robbery/)
- [heists](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/heists/)
- [Bellamy Brothers robberies](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/bellamy-brothers-robberies/)
- [Valdese fall-out shelter explosion](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/valdese-fall-out-shelter-explosion/)
- [John Railey](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/john-railey/)
- [Brenda Holland cold case](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/brenda-holland-cold-case/)
- [Brenda Holland](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/brenda-holland/)
- [writing advice](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/writing-advice/)
- [author interviews](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/author-interviews/)
- [Hope Andersen](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/hope-andersen/)
- [ethics in true crime reporting](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/ethics-in-true-crime-reporting/)
- [Christina Parcell](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/christina-parcell/)
- [Bradley Post](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/bradley-post/)
- [John Mello](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/john-mello/)
- [Zachary Hughes](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/zachary-hughes/)
- [Phonesia Machado-Fore](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/phonesia-machado-fore/)
- [Jaremy Smith](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/jaremy-smith/)
- [Antoinetta McKoy](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/antoinetta-mckoy/)
- [Jadon Higganbothan](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/jadon-higganbothan/)
- [Peter Lucas Moses](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/peter-lucas-moses/)
- [Peter Lucas Moses Jr.](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/peter-lucas-moses-jr/)
- [Cynthia Kirk](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/cynthia-kirk/)
- [Janet Siclari](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/janet-siclari/)
- [Denise Johnson](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/denise-johnson/)
- [Cati Blauvelt](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/cati-blauvelt/)
- [John Blauvelt](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/john-blauvelt/)
- [Helen Gibbs](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/helen-gibbs/)
- [Susan Haire](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/susan-haire/)
- [Dr. Joe Smith](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/dr-joe-smith/)
- [Pearl Chandler](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/pearl-chandler/)
- [Michelle Young](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/michelle-young/)
- [Jason Young](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/jason-young/)
- [serial killers](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/serial-killers/)
- [Todd Kohlhepp](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/todd-kohlhepp/)
- [Dig Me a Grave](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/dig-me-a-grave/)
- [Pee Wee Gaskins](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/pee-wee-gaskins/)
- [Dick Harpootlian](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/dick-harpootlian/)
- [Tennessee Innocence Project](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/tennessee-innocence-project/)
- [Stephanie Tinsley](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/stephanie-tinsley/)
- [Everything They Missed](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/everything-they-missed/)
- [Peg Cuttino](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/peg-cuttino/)
- [William "Junior" Pierce](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/william-junior-pierce/)
- [Helen St. Clair](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/helen-st-clair/)
- [The Killing Trails](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/the-killing-trails/)
- [Nikki McPhatter](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/nikki-mcphatter/)
- [L.C. Underwood](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/l-c-underwood/)
- [Viktor Gunnarsson](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/viktor-gunnarsson/)
- [Catherine Miller](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/catherine-miller/)
- [Blanche Taylor Moore](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/blanche-taylor-moore/)
- [Dora Owl](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/dora-owl/)
- [Austin Thompson](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/austin-thompson/)
- [Hedingham Shooting](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/hedingham-shooting/)
- [Jared Johns](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/jared-johns/)
- [John-Paul Miller](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/john-paul-miller/)
- [Sherri Jackson](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/sherri-jackson/)
- [Jeffrey Manchester](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/jeffrey-manchester/)
- [The Roofman](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/the-roofman/)
- [Charlotte](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/charlotte/)
- [Janet Abaroa](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/janet-abaroa/)
- [Gayle McCaffrey](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/gayle-mccaffrey/)
- [Lisa McBride](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/lisa-mcbride/)
- [Brooke Holsonback](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/brooke-holsonback/)
- [Norsaadah Husain](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/norsaadah-husain/)
- [Cora Lee Hamby](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/cora-lee-hamby/)
- [Leila Lewis](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/leila-lewis/)
- [Mary Rachel Lewis](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/mary-rachel-lewis/)
- [Gloria Kim Smith](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/gloria-kim-smith/)
- [Enrique Roman Martinez](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/enrique-roman-martinez-2/)
- [Sun Drop Bottling Company Murders](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/sun-drop-bottling-company-murders/)
- [Johnny Steven Talbert](https://missinginthecarolinas.com/tag/johnny-steven-talbert/)