13case filesUpdated Jul 18, 2026
Casepin holds 13 solved cases in North Carolina. A solved case is one the record closes with a conviction or an equivalent legal finding; each file names who was convicted only where a court did.
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: 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.
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.
The files run from 1898 to 2022. The 2000s hold the most, with 6 files. The oldest is Wilmington massacre, from 1898.
They are spread across 13 cities and towns, no more than one file in any of them. By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (11), mass shooting cases (3) and robbery and burglary cases (2).
6 files of the 13 have coverage attached: 9 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 7 creators. The most covered is Killing of Zebb Quinn, with 4 items to watch or hear. That Chapter, Coffeehouse Crime and Danelle Hallan 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. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Zebb Quinn — Credit: zebb quinnEditorial useSource
Timothy B. Hennis, 1986 — Credit: APPublic domainSource
Eve Carson — Credit: University of North CarolinaEditorial useSource
Hedingham Golf Course - panoramio (2) — Credit: James WillamorCC BY-SA 3.0Source
File:Maria Lauterbach.jpg — Credit: U.S. Marine CorpsPublic domainSource
Ucity — Credit: Bz3rkCC BY-SA 3.0Source
These files are published and cited but are kept out of search listings for now, either because they fall outside Casepin’s true-crime scope or because they are still being deepened.
13. 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
That Chapter (2 cases), Coffeehouse Crime (2 cases) and Danelle Hallan (1 case), among 7 creators in all.
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.
