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Lindell Kay is a professor of writing and journalism. He spent 20 years as an award-winning investigative reporter at newspapers across Eastern NorthCarolina. This is the final entry of the Unidentified series published by Fighting Crime with permission of the author.
Dec 1, 2025 article
https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/authorities-identify-remains-north-carolina-man-last-seen-in-2021/
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A task force set up last summer revived the case and led to the arrests of three people who have been charged with his murder.
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The Supreme Court of NorthCarolina is the state’s highest court, and there is no further appeal from its decisions on matters of state law. It is made up of the Chief Justice, who also serves as head of the Judicial Branch, and six associate justices.
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Good morning, y'all and happy December 1!
Number 3 is false, correct statement:
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, not in 1862, and his second State of the Union Address was delivered on December 1, 1862, before the proclamation was issued...
You are such a cutie, @Tricia!
I can’t find your “big fat lie.” I thought it might be the date of the first telephone in the White House, but sources are so variable, who knows? I learned a lot about President Rutherford B. Hayes though. 😄
I found first phone dates in 1877, 1878 and 1879...
...Bus Boycott.
1865: Shaw University, the first historically black university in the Southern United States, was founded in Raleigh, NorthCarolina.
1862: President Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed the necessity of ending slavery in his second State of the Union Address, ten weeks after issuing the...
DDP cases where Namus was removed:
1. Rural Hall Jane Doe, NorthCarolina, 2019
https://dnadoeproject.org/case/rural-hall-jane-doe-2019/
2. Burlington John Doe 2011
https://dnadoeproject.org/case/burlington-john-doe-2011/
3. Ashland John Doe 1977...
...of the man, who is now known to be Malquan Tyreek Hawkins, who was 22 years old when he died.
Hawkins' biological mother lives in NorthCarolina, about three-hours north of Myrtle Beach, and put him up for adoption as a baby. He ended up in the foster system and aged out at 18 years old...
...to Madalina being reported missing, Diana Cojocari was seen sleeping in a car 150 miles from Cornelius, near Marshall in western NorthCarolina, but there was no sign of Madalina.
The Cornelius police department continues to display missing person flyers of Madalina, emphasizing that the...
...at every major Homicide Investigators Association conference where I was a featured speaker — including Pennsylvania, Virginia, and NorthCarolina — bringing Emmaline’s name and story before hundreds of detectives, investigators, and forensic professionals across the country.
Discussed the...
...however, varies by agency. Murder Accountability Project reports that from 1965 through 2023, about 80% of homicide cases in NorthCarolina were solved. The state still has approximately 6,655 unsolved cases.
To help address those long-term investigations, the NorthCarolina State Bureau of...
In stories like this I always think of the case of Michelle Garvey, a teenager went missing in the 70s from New London, CT, and was identified decades later as a doe in Texas. There was no indication she had gone that far away, but luckily a sleuth with an open mind suggested her as a match anyway.
...check upper Midwest State States (Michigan Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, or Minnesota) or Upper Southeast(Virginia, NorthCarolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Kentucky.) Missing People or Persons to check if anybody resembling her is missing. If I get time maybe later in...
I don’t feel like any distance can be ruled out. Up thread, I was comparing her to a missing woman from Texas whose son is looking for her. I think this doe could be her or Sandy or just about any female from anywhere. If we don’t have DNA, I wish we at least had a picture of the little boy.
...doe was found by the interstate, how far do we believe is plausible for her to have come from? Sandy Michelle Lane age 25 was from NorthCarolina, brown hair, 5’3, 115lbs, went missing on May 20th 1993 (unsure how they got that exact date as the only information available is that her mother...
https://www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/warrants-man-accused-killing-his-children-north-carolina-home-admits-fifth-child-died/
This article says there was also a one-month-old that he buried in the woods.
So, either that baby died a couple of years ago and the mother was aware of what was going on, or...
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