Credit: zebb quinnEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenAsheville, North Carolina · 2000
Zebb Quinn, an 18-year-old Walmart employee, disappeared in Asheville, North Carolina, on January 2, 2000. Over 22 years later, his co-worker Robert Jason Owens pleaded guilty to accessory after-the-fact to first-degree murder, legally establishing Quinn was killed, though his body has never been found.
Credit: University of North CarolinaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenChapel Hill, North Carolina, United States · 2008
Eve Carson, student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was abducted, robbed and fatally shot on March 5, 2008. Demario James Atwater and Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr. were charged, and both were ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
SOLVEDListenClemmons, North Carolina · 2002
Pazuzu Algarad, born John Alexander Lawson, was convicted as an accessory after the fact in the 2010 shooting death of Joseph Emmrick Chandler and was later arrested after skeletal remains were found buried in his Clemmons, North Carolina, backyard in 2014. He died by apparent suicide in a North Carolina prison in October 2015.
Elizabeth City, North Carolina, United States · 2021
On April 21, 2021, Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old Black man, was fatally shot in the back of the head by Pasquotank County Sheriff's deputies serving a drug-related search and arrest warrant in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The District Attorney found the deputies' use of deadly force justified and declined to file charges.
Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenWilmington, North Carolina · 1898
On November 10, 1898, white supremacist Democrats led an armed mob of roughly 2,000 men in Wilmington, North Carolina, overthrowing the city's legitimately elected biracial Fusionist government, killing at least 14 Black residents (estimates run far higher), and destroying Black-owned businesses including the city's only Black daily newspaper.
Credit: James WillamorCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenHedingham neighborhood, Raleigh, North Carolina · 2022
On October 13, 2022, a 15-year-old shot and killed five people and injured others across the Hedingham neighborhood of Raleigh, North Carolina, before being cornered by police and sustaining a self-inflicted gunshot wound; he later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life without parole.
Credit: Bz3rkCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenWoodford A. Kennedy Building, University of North Carolina at Charlotte · 2019
On April 30, 2019, a former UNC Charlotte student opened fire in a classroom on the last day of spring classes, killing two students and wounding four others before being disarmed by police. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life without parole.
SOLVEDListenMorningside Homes, Greensboro, North Carolina · 1979
On November 3, 1979, Ku Klux Klan and National Socialist Party of America members shot and killed five anti-Klan demonstrators at a march in Greensboro, North Carolina, and the criminal defendants were later acquitted.
SOLVEDListenOxford, North Carolina, United States · 1970
Henry "Dickie" Marrow, a 23-year-old Black Army veteran, was beaten and fatally shot outside a shop in Oxford, North Carolina, in May 1970. An all-white jury acquitted the three men charged with his murder, sparking protests, arson, a curfew, and an 18-month boycott of white businesses that led to desegregation of the town's public facilities.
UNSOLVEDListenNear Bolivia, North Carolina, United States · 1960
On January 6, 1960, a National Airlines DC-6 flying from New York to Miami exploded in midair and crashed near Bolivia, North Carolina, killing all 34 aboard. Investigators concluded a dynamite bomb caused the explosion, but no one was ever charged and the case remains officially unsolved.
The files run from 1898 to 2024. The 2000s hold the most, with 8 files. The oldest is Wilmington massacre, from 1898.
They are spread across 17 cities and towns; the most are in Chapel Hill (3) and Shelby (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (15), robbery and burglary cases (3) and mass shooting cases (3).
9 files of the 20 have coverage attached: 22 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 11 creators. The most covered is Killing of Zebb Quinn, with 4 items to watch or hear. Dr. Todd Grande, That Chapter and Crime Weekly have covered the most of them.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Asha Degree — Credit: fbiPublic domainSource
Faith Hedgepth — Credit: Screengrab from video hereEditorial useSource
Zebb Quinn — Credit: zebb quinnEditorial useSource
Timothy B. Hennis, 1986 — Credit: APPublic domainSource
Eve Carson — Credit: University of North CarolinaEditorial useSource
Alexander Manly Daily Record — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Hedingham Golf Course - panoramio (2) — Credit: James WillamorCC BY-SA 3.0Source
File:Brenda Sue Brown.jpg — Credit: Unknown author Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Dr. Zijie Yan — Credit: Via WikipediaEditorial useSource
File:Maria Lauterbach.jpg — Credit: U.S. Marine CorpsPublic domainSource
Ucity — Credit: Bz3rkCC BY-SA 3.0Source
20. By status: 2 unsolved, 1 cold, 4 ongoing and 13 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Wilmington massacre, from 1898. Open the file
Killing of Zebb Quinn, with 4 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Dr. Todd Grande (3 cases), That Chapter (3 cases) and Crime Weekly (2 cases), among 11 creators in all.
Chapel Hill (3) and Shelby (2).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 18, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
