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Elkin police, SBI seeking public help with 48-year-old cold case homicide
ELKIN, N.C. (WGHP) — Police are looking for additional assistance in the investigation of a 48-year-old cold case.
Elkin Police Department said on Monday that they and the SBI are seeking the public’s assistance in the murder of Roland Church Brown, an Elkin businessman who was found dead in his home on Sept. 20, 1975.
Brown, who owned Brown’s Men’s Store in Elkin, had been last seen at Tobacco Road, a bar in Wilkes County, early that morning. A Winston-Salem Chronicle article released around the time of Brown’s killing said that he had been strangled to death.
The Elkin Police Department said that investigators have conducted interviews both here in North Carolina and outside of the state. Investigators have “identified persons of interest” and evidence that was found at the crime scene will be submitted to the State Crime Lab for additional testing.
Investigation of 1975 murder reopened
Anderson recalled that the only thing in Brown’s house that appeared to be out of place was a night stand in the middle of a room, but was still upright.
Brown’s wallet contained no cash, but the sheriff’s office reported within a week after he died that sufficient information had been uncovered to rule out robbery as an apparent motive.
ELKIN, N.C. (WGHP) — Police are looking for additional assistance in the investigation of a 48-year-old cold case.
Elkin Police Department said on Monday that they and the SBI are seeking the public’s assistance in the murder of Roland Church Brown, an Elkin businessman who was found dead in his home on Sept. 20, 1975.
Brown, who owned Brown’s Men’s Store in Elkin, had been last seen at Tobacco Road, a bar in Wilkes County, early that morning. A Winston-Salem Chronicle article released around the time of Brown’s killing said that he had been strangled to death.
The Elkin Police Department said that investigators have conducted interviews both here in North Carolina and outside of the state. Investigators have “identified persons of interest” and evidence that was found at the crime scene will be submitted to the State Crime Lab for additional testing.
Investigation of 1975 murder reopened
Anderson recalled that the only thing in Brown’s house that appeared to be out of place was a night stand in the middle of a room, but was still upright.
Brown’s wallet contained no cash, but the sheriff’s office reported within a week after he died that sufficient information had been uncovered to rule out robbery as an apparent motive.
