Tag: North Carolina cold case

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 had met while they were still in high school—Patricia was from Sanford and Jesse from Pittsboro. Patricia stood around five feet...

The Unsolved Murder of Virginia Olson in North Carolina

Virginia Olson 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 three years I worked on the campus newspaper, The Blue Banner, honing my reporting skills, interviewing students and...