Angela Nobles Rothen, a 42-year-old White/Caucasian female from the Wilmington, North Carolina area, was last heard from by family on June 10, 2007. Online sources do not support a death date of June 24, 2026; instead, they describe her as a homicide victim who disappeared in 2007, with her remains discovered the following year. Her family reported her missing after contact suddenly stopped, and what began as a missing-person case slowly became part of one of Wilmington’s most haunting
unsolved homicide investigations.
In April 2008, human remains were found in a wooded area off Carolina Beach Road in Wilmington. The discovery was disturbing not only because it confirmed a death, but because two sets of remains were located in the same general area. One set was later identified as Angela Rothen. The other was identified as Allison Jackson Foy, another woman who had vanished from Wilmington in 2006. The proximity of the remains led investigators to believe the two cases could be connected, and police publicly treated both deaths as homicides.
Angela’s autopsy findings were reported as showing that her neck had been cut and that she may also have suffered head trauma. Other accounts describe her as having been beaten and suffering a skull fracture. The condition of her remains and the length of time she had been missing made the investigation difficult, but authorities continued to view her death as violent and suspicious. Her case became closely tied to Allison Foy’s because both women disappeared separately and were later found near each other in the same wooded area.
Over the years, investigators examined possible links between the two women’s deaths and a local cab driver named Timothy Iannone. He was discussed in multiple reports as a suspect or prime suspect in the murders of Angela Rothen and Allison Jackson Foy, but he has never been charged in connection with either homicide. At one point in 2008, Wilmington police reportedly said Iannone was no longer a suspect, and he denied involvement. Later reporting, however, described him again as someone law enforcement and family members believed may have been connected to the killings.
Iannone was eventually convicted in a separate 1996 rape and kidnapping case after a long-backlogged sexual assault kit was tested. In 2022, he received a sentence of nearly 48 years in prison. During that trial and its aftermath, the unresolved murders of Angela Rothen and Allison Jackson Foy resurfaced because investigators had previously looked at alleged similarities between assaults attributed to Iannone and the circumstances surrounding the two homicide cases. Still, no arrest has been made in Angela’s murder, and no one has been formally charged with killing her.
Angela Rothen’s case remains unsolved. Her death is remembered alongside Allison Jackson Foy’s as part of a painful Wilmington cold case in which two women vanished in different years, were found near one another, and left behind families still waiting for a courtroom answer. As of the most recent available online reporting, authorities continued to investigate, Iannone remained imprisoned for the unrelated rape and kidnapping conviction, and Angela’s homicide had not resulted in charges, trial, or conviction.
