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Henry McCollum and Leon Brown
Henry Lee McCollum (born March 26, 1964) and Leon Brown (born November 24, 1967) are two African American men who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for a murder they did not commit. McCollum and Brown were two intellectually disabled teenage brothers, 19 and 15 years old respectively, when a local of Robeson County, North Carolina, implicated them in the 1983 rape and murder of 11-year-old Sabrina…
Year unknown · North CarolinaUnsolvedEdgecombe County serial killer
The Edgecombe County serial killer is an unidentified serial killer in the surroundings of Edgecombe and Halifax counties in North Carolina, United States. There are ten suspected victims, all African-American women, and the remains of eight have been recovered. Because some of the victims had been found near the Seven Bridges Road in Rocky Mount, the culprit has also been called The Seven Bridges Killer.
Year unknown · North CarolinaUnsolved
Lynching of Red Roach
The lynching of Edward "Red" Roach was the extrajudicial killing of a 25-year-old Black man by a mob of White men in Roxboro, North Carolina, for allegedly assaulting the 13-year-old daughter of popular White tobacco farmer Edward Chambers. Later, Nello Teer, Roach's employer, wrote to The Herald-Sun in Durham decrying the lynching as a "ghastly mistake" because Roach was at work when the alleged attack on Chambers…
1997 · North CarolinaUnsolvedKilling of Judy Smith
On September 7, 1997, hunters in North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest found human bones, clothing, and some other items scattered in the woods near a campground. The remains, most of which were around a shallow grave, were identified as belonging to a woman between the ages of 40 and 55 with a seriously arthritic knee. Due to holes and cuts on her bra, and similar cutting marks on the bones, investigators ruled…
1912 · North CarolinaMissing
Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar
Bobby Dunbar was an American boy whose disappearance at the age of four and apparent return were widely reported in newspapers across the United States in 1912 and 1913. After eight months of nationwide searching, investigators believed they had found the child in Mississippi, in the hands of William Cantwell Walters of Barnesville, North Carolina. Dunbar's parents claimed the boy as their missing son.
1933 · North CarolinaMissingC. B. Johnston
Clement Bernard "Johnnie" Johnston Sr. (born c. 1895, missing 1933) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was the second head football coach at Appalachian State Teachers College—now known as Appalachian State University—located in Boone, North Carolina, serving from 1929 to 1932.
1987 · North CarolinaOverturnedDarryl Hunt
Darryl Hunt (February 24, 1965 – March 13, 2016) was an African-American man from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who, in 1984, was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and the murder of Deborah Sykes, a young white newspaper copy editor. After being convicted in that case, Hunt was tried in 1987 for the 1983 murder of Arthur Wilson, a 57-year-old black man of Winston-Salem. Both…
1998 · North CarolinaOverturnedAlan Gell
James Alan Gell (born June 30, 1974, in North Carolina) is an American who was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder in 1998 and sentenced to death in Bertie County, North Carolina, at the age of 22. He served nine years as an inmate on death row before being acquitted in a second trial in 2004; he was freed from prison and exonerated that year. He was the 113th person to be freed from death row in the United…
1995 · North CarolinaOverturnedDontae Sharpe
Dontae Sharpe (born 1975) is an African American from North Carolina who was wrongly convicted of murdering a white man and spent 26 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was exonerated and released from prison in 2019, and given a full pardon in 2021. Sharpe was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1995 for the murder of George Radcliffe.
1995 · North CarolinaUnsolvedKilling of Randi Boothe-Wilson
Randi Stacey Boothe-Wilson (known primarily by her middle name) was a formerly unidentified American woman discovered dead in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina on December 6, 1995. Boothe-Wilson served as a member of the United States Marine Corps from the early 1980s to her discharge in August 1994. She had married a fellow Marine, but they were divorced in 1994.
1971 · North CarolinaUnsolvedMurders of Patricia Mann and Jesse McBane
On February 12, 1971, Patricia Ann Mann, age 20 and Jesse Allen McBane, age 18, were found brutally murdered in the woods of Orange County, North Carolina. The murders, known as "The Valentine's Day Murders", have to this day never been solved. Police have permanently reopened the investigation since 2011.
Year unknown · North CarolinaUnsolvedMurder of Suellen Evans
Suellen Evans (April 1, 1944 – June 30, 1965) was a college student taking summer courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) who was stabbed and slashed to death at the campus' Coker Arboretum when she fought off a rape attempt. The killer has never been identified, and investigations have gone cold over the years, the murder having a lasting impact on the community and local police force.…
1992 · North CarolinaMissingAngela Toler
Angela "Angie" Faye Toler was a formerly unidentified decedent who disappeared in Richmond, Virginia, in November 1992, and who was unidentified for 20 years. After moving from Princeton, North Carolina, to Richmond with her boyfriend, Toler fell out of communication with her family. Toler's boyfriend soon moved back to Princeton alone, but Toler was not with him, and friends and family of Toler never heard from her…
1985 · North CarolinaOverturned
Eastburn family murders
In May 1985, Kathryn Eastburn and her daughters, Kara and Erin, were murdered in Fayetteville, North Carolina. In 1986, United States Army Sergeant Timothy Hennis was tried and convicted for the three murders. In 1988, Hennis's conviction was overturned on appeal, and he was acquitted the following year.
2008 · North CarolinaMissingDisappearance of Jamie Fraley
In the early hours of April 8, 2008, Jamie Fraley, a 22‑year‑old woman from Gastonia, North Carolina, told a friend by phone that she was going to the hospital for the third time in 24 hours due to a stomach flu. When asked who was taking her, she said it was another friend but declined to identify the person. She has not been seen since.
2000 · North CarolinaMissing
Disappearance of Asha Degree
On February 14, 2000, Asha Jaquilla Degree, a nine‑year‑old girl from Shelby, North Carolina, United States, disappeared after leaving her family's home during the early morning hours. For reasons that remain unknown, she packed a bookbag and walked along North Carolina Highway 18 in heavy rain and wind. Several motorists reported seeing her; when one driver attempted to approach her about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) from…
1976 · North CarolinaOverturnedJoseph Sledge
Joseph Sledge Jr. (1942 – December, 1, 2020) was an American man who was wrongly convicted of the 1976 murders of 74-year-old Josephine Davis and 57-year-old Aileen Davis, for which he was imprisoned for over 36 years before being exonerated by new DNA evidence. His case represents the longest duration of incarceration for a case that has been overturned by DNA evidence, and he was the longest-serving inmate to have…
1997 · North CarolinaMissing
Disappearance of Kristen Modafferi
Kristen Deborah Modafferi (born June 1, 1979; disappeared June 23, 1997) is an American woman who, at the age of 18 in the early summer of 1997, disappeared under mysterious circumstances after leaving her job at the Crocker Galleria in San Francisco, California. The college sophomore at North Carolina State University was spending the summer in the Bay Area; Modafferi had recently relocated from her native North…
1971 · North CarolinaOverturned
Wilmington Ten
The Wilmington Ten were nine young men and a woman who were wrongfully convicted in 1971 in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, of arson and conspiracy. Most were sentenced to 29 years in prison, and all ten served nearly a decade in jail before an appeal won their release. The case became an international cause célèbre, in which many critics of the city and state characterized the activists as political…
2026 · Lexington, North CarolinaMissingPauline Glenn
Pauline Glenn, 32 at the time, was last known to be in Lexington, North Carolina on July 7, 2026. NamUs case MP162233.
2006 · Edward, North CarolinaMissingKierra Barnett
Kierra Barnett, 21 at the time, was last known to be in Edward, North Carolina on December 20, 2006. NamUs case MP2466.
1991 · Whiteville, North CarolinaUnidentifiedUnidentified man, Whiteville, North Carolina (1991)
An unidentified man was found in Whiteville, North Carolina on November 30, 1991. No name has been established. NamUs case UP60202.
2025 · Greensboro, North CarolinaMissingAgnes Colombo
Agnes Colombo, 81 at the time, was last known to be in Greensboro, North Carolina on December 25, 2025. NamUs case MP161830.
2026 · Wilmington, North CarolinaMissingKira Ramsey
Kira Ramsey, 16 at the time, was last known to be in Wilmington, North Carolina on June 25, 2026. NamUs case MP160809.