GUILTY NC - Debra 'Dianne' Sellars, 43, Burlington, 20 April 2012

Burlington police are asking for helping finding a missing woman.

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Police and emergency service personnel from all over Alamance County gathered en masse at 7:30 a.m. Saturday to search for Debra “Dianne” Sellars, who’s been missing for over a week. By the time the search ended at 6:45 p.m., they still hadn’t found any indication of Sellars.

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It’s been two weeks since 43-year-old Debra “Dianne” Sellars left her Beaumont Avenue home and disappeared.

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A desperate search for a missing North Carolina mom hasn't turned up any major clues on where she went or what's become of her.

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Burlington police are still looking for a 43-year-old woman who disappeared almost seven weeks ago.

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Burlington, NC -- Police hope new reward money from the Governor's Office will help them find a woman who's been missing since April.

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Police recently started working with NamUs as a resource to help locate Debra Dianne Sellars, a 43-year-old Burlington woman who was last seen April 20. Authorities think Sellars might have been killed. Sellars’ family members have submitted DNA samples.

“We built a profile for her in NamUs and started talking to the folks there,” said Burlington police Staff Sgt. Mark Yancey.

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The story of a Burlington woman missing since April is expected to be featured in a television show that focuses on cases where “people of color — young and old — have disappeared without a trace.”

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The former boyfriend of a woman missing since April was recently sentenced in Alamance County District Court for assaulting Debra Dianne Sellars last year.

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The identity of the person still isn't known, although the Burlington Police Department is working with the Medical Examiner's Office, LabCorp and N.C. State University to see if the remains are possibly 43-year-old Debra "Dianne" Sellars, a woman reported missing in April.

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A DNA profile created from samples provided by the family of 43-year-old Debra “Dianne” Sellars is what authorities used to identify her remains.

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Last month, a crew from a cable TV program “Find Our Missing” interviewed detectives working the missing person’s case as well as Sellars’ family members for a documentary-drama that will air on TV One in the first quarter of 2013. At the time, the Times-News was told that the show would air even if Sellars was found.

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Other pending cases:

FIRST-DEGREE MURDER

Rodney Lee Enoch

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Enoch, 44, is charged with killing 43-year-old Debra Diane Sellars in 2012.

Sellars went missing April 20, 2012. Hunters discovered her body in October that year. Enoch was charged with her murder in October 2013, after a year of investigation.

Enoch is being held under a $1 million bond.

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The jury in Rodney Lee Enoch’s first-degree murder trial heard his ex-wife and ex-girlfriend testify Tuesday about seven incidents of abuse against them, including the stabbing of his wife on Christmas Eve 1999.

Enoch, 45, is charged with the 2012 murder of 43-year-old Debra Dianne Sellars – his on-again-off-again girlfriend. She went missing April 20, 2012, and a hunter discovered her skeletal remains in October 2012 on private land off Union Ridge Road north of Burlington. Enoch was charged with first-degree murder Oct. 3, 2013 after a year of investigation into Sellars’ disappearance.

Durham County Superior Court Judge James Hardin Jr. said the jury could hear about the Christmas stabbing, a time Enoch assaulted his then wife when she said she wanted a divorce, a time he choked her causing her to pass out and a time he beat her with a belt.

Hardin said the jury could also hear about three incidents when Enoch took his girlfriend from 1989 to 1995 to three isolated places in northern Alamance County including a spot on Union Ridge Road, where she testified he dragged her from her car and beat her badly – once into unconsciousness.

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The jury found Rodney Lee Enoch guilty of first-degree murder Friday afternoon, and Judge James Hardin Jr. sentenced him to a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

“I didn’t just lose a sister I lost a friend. She was a mother — now a grandmother. My niece will never know her grandmother,” Shelia Daye, the youngest sister of victim Debra Dianne Sellars, said to Enoch in open court after the verdict was read. “It’s a sad day for both families. I lost my sister, and your family is losing you. The difference is they will be able to visit you.”

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