Name: North Carolina Missing Persons and Unsolved Homicide Statistics
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Cases by type

Missing Persons 969 738 still missing

Deaths by Force 7,792 7,483 unsolved

Unidentified Remains 177 157 unidentified

Unclaimed Persons 51 51 unclaimed

Serial Killer Profiles 16

Mass Murders 7

By state & province

Cases per state and per 100,000 residents, a shaded state-by-state list, top cities, and Indigenous missing and murdered (MMIP) by state.

Cases by state and province

Click a state or province to see its statistics. All case types.

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State / province	Missing	Missing per 100k	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force per 100k	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified per 100k	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed per 100k	Unclaimed claimed %	Serial killer profiles	Mass murders	All cases	All per 100k
North Carolina NC	969	9.28	23.8%	7,792	74.64	3.9%	177	1.70	11.3%	51	0.49	0%	16	7	9,012	86.33

Per 100,000 residents: 2020 U.S. Census / 2021 Canadian Census populations. "%" columns are the share of that type's cases marked located / solved / identified / claimed.

Top cities by open cases

Missing, deaths by force, unidentified and unclaimed cases, by the city recorded on the case.

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City	State	Cases	Open	Solved / resolved	Solved / resolved %
Charlotte	NC	1,397	1,311	84	6%
Greensboro	NC	631	608	23	3.6%
Durham	NC	535	491	44	8.2%
Fayetteville	NC	483	435	48	9.9%
Winston-salem	NC	353	328	24	6.8%
Raleigh	NC	284	256	28	9.9%
Wilmington	NC	182	167	15	8.2%
Lumberton	NC	157	146	11	7%
Gastonia	NC	132	126	6	4.5%
Rocky-mount	NC	127	124	3	2.4%
Goldsboro	NC	129	120	9	7%
Asheville	NC	158	113	45	28.5%
High-point	NC	106	101	4	3.8%
Salisbury	NC	98	96	2	2%
Greenville	NC	94	88	6	6.4%
Wilson	NC	77	75	2	2.6%
Hickory	NC	68	65	3	4.4%
Burlington	NC	68	61	7	10.3%
Kinston	NC	62	61	1	1.6%
Shelby	NC	62	60	2	3.2%
Sanford	NC	58	58	0	0%
Laurinburg	NC	64	57	7	10.9%
Jacksonville	NC	61	56	5	8.2%
Concord	NC	58	54	4	6.9%
Henderson	NC	60	53	7	11.7%
Lexington	NC	55	52	3	5.5%
Morganton	NC	46	45	1	2.2%
Elizabeth-city	NC	44	43	1	2.3%
New-bern	NC	40	38	2	5%
Monroe	NC	39	38	1	2.6%
Winston Salem	NC	38	38	0	0%
Statesville	NC	37	37	0	0%
Whiteville	NC	37	35	2	5.4%
Kannapolis	NC	39	34	5	12.8%
Rocky Mount	NC	34	33	1	2.9%
Maxton	NC	35	31	4	11.4%
Clinton	NC	33	30	3	9.1%
Raeford	NC	33	29	4	12.1%
Reidsville	NC	30	29	1	3.3%
Hope-mills	NC	29	28	1	3.4%

Indigenous missing and murdered (MMIP), by state / province

Cases where the person is recorded as American Indian, Alaska Native, Indigenous or First Nations. 21 missing persons were reported missing from tribal land (20 still missing).

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State / province	Missing	Still missing	Deaths by force	Unsolved	Unidentified / unclaimed	Total
North Carolina	24	21	11	10	2	37

By decade & year

Cases by decade and year, the solved share by decade (the “cold case curve”), and seasonality by month and day of the week.

Cases by decade

Stacked by case type.

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Decade	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Serial Killers	Mass Murders	Missing located %	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed claimed %
1900s	0	26	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1910s	0	7	0	0	1	0	–	0%	–	–
1920s	0	12	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1930s	0	5	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1940s	3	0	0	0	0	0	0%	–	–	–
1950s	1	2	2	0	2	0	0%	0%	0%	–
1960s	8	9	4	1	1	0	0%	0%	25%	0%
1970s	14	50	22	0	3	1	0%	0%	4.5%	–
1980s	55	65	30	0	0	1	7.3%	0%	3.3%	–
1990s	83	160	34	2	3	2	1.2%	0%	5.9%	0%
2000s	129	592	21	4	6	2	5.4%	1.7%	9.5%	0%
2010s	167	2,916	27	1	0	0	10.2%	0.9%	11.1%	0%
2020s	509	3,948	37	43	0	1	39.7%	6.7%	27%	0%

Decade of the date last seen (missing), date of death (deaths by force), date found (unidentified / unclaimed), first year active (serial killers) or date of the attack (mass murders).

Solved / resolved share by decade

The “cold case curve”: the share of each decade’s cases now marked solved, located, identified or claimed (decades with fewer than 10 cases are left out).

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Decade	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Serial Killers	Mass Murders	Missing located %	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed claimed %
1900s	0	26	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1910s	0	7	0	0	1	0	–	0%	–	–
1920s	0	12	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1930s	0	5	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1940s	3	0	0	0	0	0	0%	–	–	–
1950s	1	2	2	0	2	0	0%	0%	0%	–
1960s	8	9	4	1	1	0	0%	0%	25%	0%
1970s	14	50	22	0	3	1	0%	0%	4.5%	–
1980s	55	65	30	0	0	1	7.3%	0%	3.3%	–
1990s	83	160	34	2	3	2	1.2%	0%	5.9%	0%
2000s	129	592	21	4	6	2	5.4%	1.7%	9.5%	0%
2010s	167	2,916	27	1	0	0	10.2%	0.9%	11.1%	0%
2020s	509	3,948	37	43	0	1	39.7%	6.7%	27%	0%

Decade of the date last seen (missing), date of death (deaths by force), date found (unidentified / unclaimed), first year active (serial killers) or date of the attack (mass murders).

Cases by year (last 50 years)

Recent years include many newly added cases; older years are more likely to be resolved and removed from public databases.

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Cases by month

Seasonality: month of the case date (only cases with a full date).

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Month	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Jan	89	652	15	8	0
Feb	88	551	12	4	0
Mar	77	626	18	3	1
Apr	77	612	16	3	0
May	72	623	14	6	1
Jun	74	670	12	3	0
Jul	82	726	13	2	1
Aug	74	685	11	2	1
Sep	82	635	16	4	0
Oct	80	728	18	6	1
Nov	77	617	14	4	1
Dec	97	657	18	6	1

Cases by day of the week

Day of the week of the case date (only cases with a full date).

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By age

Age groups for each case type, solved share by age, average ages and an age / sex pyramid.

Cases by age group

Average age: 34.4 missing · 33.3 deaths by force · 38.0 unidentified.

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Age	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %
0-12	32	9.4%	134	4.6%	8	0%	0	–
13-17	208	32.2%	436	5.5%	0	–	0	–
18-24	105	11.4%	1,913	4.4%	11	9.1%	0	–
25-34	170	22.9%	2,202	4%	35	8.6%	0	–
35-49	257	23%	1,785	3.3%	43	11.6%	0	–
50-64	146	28.1%	753	2.8%	29	10.3%	0	–
65+	51	19.6%	321	3.4%	7	14.3%	0	–
Unknown	0	–	248	2.8%	44	15.9%	51	0%

Age when last seen (missing), age at death (deaths by force), middle of the estimated age range (unidentified), possible age (unclaimed).

Solved / resolved share by age group

Share of each age group’s cases marked solved, located, identified or claimed.

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Age	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %
0-12	32	9.4%	134	4.6%	8	0%	0	–
13-17	208	32.2%	436	5.5%	0	–	0	–
18-24	105	11.4%	1,913	4.4%	11	9.1%	0	–
25-34	170	22.9%	2,202	4%	35	8.6%	0	–
35-49	257	23%	1,785	3.3%	43	11.6%	0	–
50-64	146	28.1%	753	2.8%	29	10.3%	0	–
65+	51	19.6%	321	3.4%	7	14.3%	0	–
Unknown	0	–	248	2.8%	44	15.9%	51	0%

Age when last seen (missing), age at death (deaths by force), middle of the estimated age range (unidentified), possible age (unclaimed).

Age and sex

Male (left) and female (right) by age group – missing, deaths by force, unidentified and unclaimed together.

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By sex

Male / female split for each case type and solved share by sex.

Cases by sex

Share of each case type that is male, female or not recorded.

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Sex	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %
Male	562	24.2%	6,015	3.8%	118	8.5%	48	0%
Female	407	23.3%	1,743	4%	40	20%	3	0%
Unknown	0	–	34	11.8%	19	10.5%	0	–

Solved / resolved share by sex

Share of male and female cases marked solved, located, identified or claimed.

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Sex	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %
Male	562	24.2%	6,015	3.8%	118	8.5%	48	0%
Female	407	23.3%	1,743	4%	40	20%	3	0%
Unknown	0	–	34	11.8%	19	10.5%	0	–

By race & ethnicity

Race and ethnicity compared with the U.S. population, and the solved share for each group.

Cases by race / ethnicity

Share of each case type, compared with the U.S. population in the table.

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Race / ethnicity	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %	Share of these cases	Share of U.S. population (2020)
White	491	23.4%	1,491	3.8%	77	10.4%	31	0%	23.3%	57.8%
Black	333	27.6%	4,622	4.1%	48	10.4%	14	0%	55.8%	12.1%
Hispanic / Latino	96	20.8%	417	5.5%	6	16.7%	5	0%	5.8%	18.7%
Asian	9	0%	45	4.4%	0	–	0	–	0.6%	5.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native / First Nations	24	12.5%	11	9.1%	2	0%	0	–	0.4%	0.7%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–	0%	0.2%
Middle Eastern	0	–	12	0%	0	–	0	–	0.1%	–
Multiracial	3	0%	2	50%	0	–	0	–	0.1%	4.1%
Other	3	33.3%	17	5.9%	1	0%	0	–	0.2%	–
Unknown / not recorded	10	0%	1,175	2.3%	43	14%	1	0%	13.7%	–

Race and ethnicity as recorded by the source (NamUs, police and news reports). U.S. population shares are from the 2020 Census (Hispanic of any race; the other groups are non-Hispanic, one race). Unidentified remains are often recorded as “uncertain”.

Solved / resolved share by race / ethnicity

Share of each group’s cases marked solved, located, identified or claimed (groups with fewer than 10 cases are left out).

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Race / ethnicity	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %	Share of these cases	Share of U.S. population (2020)
White	491	23.4%	1,491	3.8%	77	10.4%	31	0%	23.3%	57.8%
Black	333	27.6%	4,622	4.1%	48	10.4%	14	0%	55.8%	12.1%
Hispanic / Latino	96	20.8%	417	5.5%	6	16.7%	5	0%	5.8%	18.7%
Asian	9	0%	45	4.4%	0	–	0	–	0.6%	5.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native / First Nations	24	12.5%	11	9.1%	2	0%	0	–	0.4%	0.7%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–	0%	0.2%
Middle Eastern	0	–	12	0%	0	–	0	–	0.1%	–
Multiracial	3	0%	2	50%	0	–	0	–	0.1%	4.1%
Other	3	33.3%	17	5.9%	1	0%	0	–	0.2%	–
Unknown / not recorded	10	0%	1,175	2.3%	43	14%	1	0%	13.7%	–

Race and ethnicity as recorded by the source (NamUs, police and news reports). U.S. population shares are from the 2020 Census (Hispanic of any race; the other groups are non-Hispanic, one race). Unidentified remains are often recorded as “uncertain”.

Solve rates & how long cases stay open

Case status for deaths by force, how many years open cases have been open, and a state-by-decade solved-share heatmap.

Deaths by force: case status

How each case is recorded. “Charged / in court” counts as solved in the solved share; accidental and self-inflicted deaths are left out of it.

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How long open cases have been open

Years since the case date, for cases still unsolved, missing, unidentified or unclaimed.

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Solved / resolved share by state and decade

Percent of missing, deaths by force, unidentified and unclaimed cases now solved, located, identified or claimed. Hover a cell for the count.

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State	1950s	1960s	1970s	1980s	1990s	2000s	2010s	2020s
NC		5	1	3	1	3	1	11

<2%2–55–1010–2020–3535–5050%+fewer than 10 cases

Rewards offered 21 deaths by force cases list a reward, and 18 of them are still unsolved.

Possible matches

Possible missing person / unidentified remains matches by score.

Possible missing person / unidentified matches

102,241 possible matches scoring 75% or higher, involving 13,698 missing persons and 7,876 unidentified remains. Browse the matches.

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Serial killers & mass murders

Serial killers by victims and decade; mass murders by year, place, firearms, attacker and victims.

Serial killers by number of victims

Confirmed victims listed on each profile (16 profiles).

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Serial killers by decade they started

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Serial killers by sex and race

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Group	Profiles	Share
Sex: Male	10	62.5%
Sex: Female	3	18.8%
Sex: Unknown	3	18.8%
Race: Black	3	18.8%
Race: White	8	50%
Race: Unknown / not recorded	5	31.3%

Mass murders by year

7 incidents. Killed per year is in the table and the next chart.

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People killed in mass murders, by year

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Mass murders by type of place

All incidents in the database (not affected by the filters).

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Place	Incidents	Killed
Not recorded	64	308
Retail / grocery / mall	38	255
Restaurant / bar / nightclub	28	221
Office / workplace	28	162
Factory / warehouse / plant	25	146
Outdoors / street / park	19	156
K-12 school	16	153
Home / residence	16	89
Government / military	12	90
House of worship	11	87
College / university	9	91
Other	3	18

Firearms used in mass shootings, by type

Firearms recorded in the Violence Project data for incidents up to its last update (90 with 1 firearms, 52 with 2 firearms, 28 with 3 firearms, 31 with 4 or more firearms). All incidents (not affected by the filters).

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Mass murderers: age, sex and race

The attacker in each incident, where recorded.

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Group	Incidents	Share
Sex: Male	7	100%
Race: Black	2	28.6%
Race: White	4	57.1%
Race: Hispanic / Latino	1	14.3%
Age: 13-17	1	14.3%
Age: 18-24	4	57.1%
Age: 25-34	1	14.3%
Age: 35-49	1	14.3%
Setting: Urban	105	–
Setting: Rural	48	–
Setting: Suburban	48	–
Setting: Not recorded	68	–

Mass murder victims: relationship to the killer

1,728 victims listed; 33.4% female. All incidents (not affected by the filters).

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Longest-open cases

The oldest unsolved, missing, unidentified and unclaimed cases, linked to each case file.

Longest-open missing persons

The 25 oldest still missing cases in North Carolina.

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Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Mary Bryan	Carolina Beach, NC	May 1941	85	4	Female
Leila Bryan	Carolina Beach, NC	May 1941	85	36	Female
Lelia Lewis Bryan	Carolina Beach, NC	May 1941	85	36	Female
James Williams	Marion, NC	Apr 1955	71	27	Male
Diane Moon	Camp Lejeune, NC	Sep 1962	64	7	Female
Mark Yoli	Camp Lejeune, NC	Sep 1962	64	2	Male
Diana Moon Yoli	Camp Lejeune, NC	Sep 1962	64	7	Female
Phyllis Powell	Woodland, NC	Jan 1963	63	5	Female
Helen Dalton	Greensboro, NC	Apr 1963	63	52	Female
Terry Westerfield	Fayetteville, NC	Sep 1964	62	11	Male
Alan Westerfield	Fayetteville, NC	Sep 1964	62	7	Male
Jacqueline Davis	Cherokee, NC	Apr 1969	57	13	Female
Verna Clewis	Wilmington, NC	Jan 1970	56	45	Female
Sherri Truesdale	Winston Salem, NC	Jun 1970	56	14	Female
Ila Maynard	Greensboro, NC	Dec 1974	52	17	Female
Steve Arrowood	Gastonia, NC	Apr 1975	51	18	Male
Calvin Brazier	Rocky Mount, NC	Jun 1975	51	71	Male
Denise Porch	Charlotte, NC	Jul 1975	51	21	Female
Trenny Gibson	Great Smoky Mount…, NC	Oct 1976	50	16	Female
Elizabeth Brown	Kitty Hawk, NC	Feb 1977	49	53	Female
Vernelle Pickens	Asheville, NC	Sep 1977	49	36	Female
Barbara Baldwin	Fayetteville, NC	Jul 1978	48	28	Female
Jimmy Edwards	Lexington, NC	Aug 1978	48	22	Male
Joe Ragan	Gastonia, NC	Sep 1978	48	36	Male
Ronald Ross	Winston-Salem, NC	Sep 1978	48	23	Male

Longest-open deaths by force

The 25 oldest unsolved cases in North Carolina.

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Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Charles Smelser	Hot-springs, NC	Mar 1900	126	33	Male
Zeb B. Lancaster	Pikeville, NC	Jun 1900	126	26	Male
Thomas Royal	Footville, NC	Jan 1901	125	45	Male
William Wood	Advance, NC	Jun 1901	125	23	Male
R. Sheldon Jones	Shelby, NC	Aug 1901	125	–	Male
Amos Wellington Howell	Watauga, NC	Nov 1902	124	21	Male
John Wesley Robertson	Henderson, NC	Apr 1903	123	49	Male
B.G.E. Daughtry	Westbrook-township, NC	Dec 1903	123	45	Male
B. Edgar Hamrick	Shelby, NC	Aug 1904	122	36	Male
D. Joseph Nichols	Hillsborough, NC	Sep 1904	122	44	Male
Rural Sampson Elisha Cole	Charlotte, NC	Jan 1905	121	57	Male
L.C. Hilton	Columbus, NC	Mar 1905	121	–	Male
Walter J. Lovett	Farmville, NC	Jan 1906	120	–	Male
Benjamin Addison	Asheville, NC	Nov 1906	120	35	Male
Charles Robert Blackstock	Asheville, NC	Nov 1906	120	30	Male
James William Bailey	Asheville, NC	Nov 1906	120	32	Male
Tom Neil	Asheville, NC	Nov 1906	120	–	Male
Walter Corpening	Asheville, NC	Nov 1906	120	–	Male
Jefferson Chason	Fayetteville, NC	Mar 1907	119	47	Male
Owen Lockamy	Fayetteville, NC	Mar 1907	119	–	Male
John Walter Hendrix	Smithtown, NC	Dec 1907	119	32	Male
James Benton	Fayetteville, NC	Feb 1908	118	52	Male
Jackson Stanland	Southport, NC	Nov 1908	118	46	Male
William Monroe	Salisbury, NC	Feb 1909	117	50	Male
Jesse Simon Long	Bug-hill-township, NC	Apr 1909	117	38	Male

Longest-open unidentified remains

The 25 oldest unidentified cases in North Carolina.

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Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Unidentified Male	NC	Dec 1956	70	29	Male
Unidentified Person	Kinston, NC	May 1957	69	–	Unknown
Unidentified Female	Wilmington, NC	Mar 1962	64	24	Female
Unidentified Male	Wilmington, NC	Mar 1962	64	24	Male
Unidentified Person	Long Beach, NC	May 1965	61	–	Unknown
Unidentified Female	Salisbury, NC	Mar 1971	55	–	Female
Unidentified Male	Goldsboro, NC	Jul 1971	55	50	Male
Unidentified Male	Lucama, NC	Feb 1974	52	30	Male
Unidentified Male	Greensboro, NC	Apr 1975	51	33	Male
Unidentified Male	Bethel, NC	May 1975	51	70	Male
Unidentified Male	Near Iredell & Da…, NC	Sep 1975	51	33	Male
Unidentified Male	Charlotte, NC	Dec 1975	51	38	Male
Unidentified Male	Leland, NC	May 1977	49	24	Male
Unidentified Female	Fayetteville, NC	Sep 1977	49	35	Female
Unidentified Male	Goldsboro, NC	Oct 1977	49	65	Male
Unidentified Female	Newton Grove, NC	Apr 1978	48	35	Female
Unidentified Female	Lumberton, NC	Jun 1978	48	18	Female
Unidentified Male	12 miles west of…, NC	Aug 1978	48	45	Male
Unidentified Male	Battleboro, NC	Oct 1978	48	45	Male
Unidentified Male	NC	Nov 1978	48	50	Male
Unidentified Female	Whiteville, NC	Jan 1979	47	–	Female
Unidentified Female	Raleigh, NC	Jul 1979	47	32	Female
Unidentified Female	Spring Lake, NC	Oct 1979	47	30	Female
Unidentified Male	Near Dunn, NC	Nov 1979	47	48	Male
Unidentified Female	Leland, NC	Dec 1979	47	35	Female

Longest-open unclaimed persons

The 25 oldest unclaimed cases in North Carolina.

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Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Ruth Allen	Pantego, NC	Apr 1960	66	–	Female
Robert Farris	Charlotte, NC	Jun 1993	33	–	Male
Dario Martinez	Benson, NC	Sep 1994	32	–	Male
Felipe Sanchez-Sanchez	Winston-Salem, NC	Dec 2003	23	–	Male
Jose Lopez-Parra	Creedmoor, NC	May 2007	19	–	Male
Jose Parra	Creedmoor, NC	May 2007	19	–	Male
Carlos Armendariz-Torrez	Near Bolton, NC	Jul 2008	18	–	Male
Fotuaaumea Papatu	Lanesboro, NC	Jan 2017	9	–	Male
Robert Sullivan	Winston-Salem, NC	Oct 2020	6	–	Male
George Schlett	Winston-Salem, NC	Apr 2021	5	–	Male
James McKenzie	Winston-Salem, NC	Aug 2021	5	–	Male
Harold Jones	Winston-Salem, NC	Sep 2021	5	–	Male
Robert Cabell	Winston-Salem, NC	Oct 2021	5	–	Male
Phillip Key	Winston-Salem, NC	Oct 2021	5	–	Male
Marcelino Lopez-Rodriguez	Monroe, NC	Oct 2021	5	–	Male
Cory Young	Winston-Salem, NC	Dec 2021	5	–	Male
Paul Wilson	Winston-Salem, NC	Dec 2021	5	–	Male
Kelvin James	Winston-Salem, NC	Jan 2022	4	–	Male
William Polk	Winston-Salem, NC	Jan 2022	4	–	Male
Robert Gholston	Winston-Salem, NC	Jan 2022	4	–	Male
Raymond Sims	Winston-Salem, NC	Jan 2022	4	–	Male
Guillermo Jimenez-Garcia	Winston-Salem, NC	Jan 2022	4	–	Male
Gordon Simpson Jr	Durham, NC	Jan 2022	4	–	Male
Luis Reyes Luciano	Winston-Salem, NC	Feb 2022	4	–	Male
Manuel Berry	Winston-Salem, NC	Feb 2022	4	–	Male

Community activity

Forum discussion, memorials, evidence boards and the most viewed cases.

Community activity

Real member activity on case pages (all cases, not affected by the filters).

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Measure	Count
Cases with member forum discussion: Mass murders	19
Cases with member forum discussion: Missing persons	379
Cases with member forum discussion: Deaths by force	717
Cases with member forum discussion: Serial killers	59
Cases with member forum discussion: Unclaimed	3
Cases with member forum discussion: Unidentified	4
Cases with a MyMemorium memorial	5,007
Evidence boards created by members	256

Most viewed deaths by force cases

All-time page views.

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Case	Place	Views
Joachim Summerford	Aberdeen, NC	12,682
Zion Terry	Richmond, VA	11,602
Travis A. Hobbs	New-orleans, LA	6,120
Shannon Watkins	Jonesboro, GA	5,496
Jameal Gaudet	Harvey, LA	4,977
Melanie Lynn Berry	Wichita-falls, TX	4,891
Kiarra Jazzmyn George	Sacramento, CA	4,732
Romeca Meeks	Chicago, IL	4,147
Shuaib Naz “Shuaiby” Aslam	Stockton, CA	3,767
Javon M. Bailey	Louisville, KY	3,737
Felicito Canales	Baton-rouge, LA	3,591
Shawn Hudson	Throckmorton County, TX	3,563
Eric Tyrone Smith, Sr.	Jackson, MS	3,334
Benjamin Joseph Deen	Hattiesburg, MS	3,296
David Washington	Pensacola, FL	3,279

Methodology & how to cite

These statistics count the cases in the Crime Solvers Central database as of October 29, 2026. They are rebuilt every night.

What is counted

Missing persons – NamUs, NCMEC and Canadian police cases. “Located” means the case is marked resolved (found alive or deceased). Age is the age when last seen.
Deaths by force – homicides and other violent deaths from police, news, court and public records. “Solved” includes cases marked solved, charged / in court, primary suspect deceased or substantiated. Deaths ruled accidental or self-inflicted are counted but left out of solved shares.
Unidentified remains and unclaimed persons – NamUs cases. Unidentified ages use the middle of the medical examiner’s estimated range.
Serial killer profiles are placed in the state where they killed and the first year they were active; victims are the confirmed victims listed on the profile. Mass murders are incidents, dated by the attack; attacker and firearm details come from The Violence Project coding where available.
Race and ethnicity are as recorded by the source and grouped into broad categories; “Multiracial” is used when more than one is listed.
Per-100,000 rates use 2020 U.S. Census and 2021 Canadian Census populations.

Limits

This is not a complete count of all crime. Our homicide records lean heavily toward unsolved cases, so the solved share is much lower than official police clearance rates and should not be reported as one.
Coverage differs by state and by year: some cities and states have been imported in full, others only partly, and recent years include many newly added cases.
Cases without a date, age, state or race are left out of that breakdown only (they still count in the totals).

How to cite

Crime Solvers Central. “North Carolina Missing Persons & Unsolved Case Statistics.” Data as of October 29, 2026. https://crimesolverscentral.com/statistics/north-carolina

You’re welcome to link to this page or to any state’s page (for example /statistics/texas). Each chart’s Cite button copies a citation that links straight to that chart.

Age	Male	Female	Female %
0-12	100	68	40.5%
13-17	446	197	30.6%
18-24	1,648	371	18.4%
25-34	1,903	501	20.8%
35-49	1,518	560	26.9%
50-64	658	265	28.7%
65+	223	154	40.8%

Match score	Possible matches
90% and higher	13
85–89%	1,595
80–84%	26,628
75–79%	74,005

Victims	Profiles
3 or fewer	3
4-5	10
6-9	3
10-19	0
20+	0

Year	Incidents	Killed	Injured
1972	1	4	7
1973	0	0	0
1974	0	0	0
1975	0	0	0
1976	0	0	0
1977	0	0	0
1978	0	0	0
1979	0	0	0
1980	0	0	0
1981	0	0	0
1982	0	0	0
1983	0	0	0
1984	0	0	0
1985	0	0	0
1986	0	0	0
1987	0	0	0
1988	1	4	5
1989	0	0	0
1990	0	0	0
1991	0	0	0
1992	0	0	0
1993	1	4	7
1994	1	5	1
1995	0	0	0
1996	0	0	0
1997	0	0	0
1998	0	0	0
1999	0	0	0
2000	0	0	0
2001	0	0	0
2002	0	0	0
2003	0	0	0
2004	0	0	0
2005	0	0	0
2006	0	0	0
2007	0	0	0
2008	0	0	0
2009	2	12	3
2010	0	0	0
2011	0	0	0
2012	0	0	0
2013	0	0	0
2014	0	0	0
2015	0	0	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	0	0	0
2019	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0
2022	1	5	3

Year	Incidents	Killed	Injured
1972	1	4	7
1973	0	0	0
1974	0	0	0
1975	0	0	0
1976	0	0	0
1977	0	0	0
1978	0	0	0
1979	0	0	0
1980	0	0	0
1981	0	0	0
1982	0	0	0
1983	0	0	0
1984	0	0	0
1985	0	0	0
1986	0	0	0
1987	0	0	0
1988	1	4	5
1989	0	0	0
1990	0	0	0
1991	0	0	0
1992	0	0	0
1993	1	4	7
1994	1	5	1
1995	0	0	0
1996	0	0	0
1997	0	0	0
1998	0	0	0
1999	0	0	0
2000	0	0	0
2001	0	0	0
2002	0	0	0
2003	0	0	0
2004	0	0	0
2005	0	0	0
2006	0	0	0
2007	0	0	0
2008	0	0	0
2009	2	12	3
2010	0	0	0
2011	0	0	0
2012	0	0	0
2013	0	0	0
2014	0	0	0
2015	0	0	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	0	0	0
2019	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0
2022	1	5	3

Month	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Jan	89	652	15	8	0
Feb	88	551	12	4	0
Mar	77	626	18	3	1
Apr	77	612	16	3	0
May	72	623	14	6	1
Jun	74	670	12	3	0
Jul	82	726	13	2	1
Aug	74	685	11	2	1
Sep	82	635	16	4	0
Oct	80	728	18	6	1
Nov	77	617	14	4	1
Dec	97	657	18	6	1

Day	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Mon	159	1,086	28	12	1
Tue	142	987	29	4	0
Wed	131	940	20	10	0
Thu	153	984	30	6	1
Fri	145	1,009	24	6	1
Sat	127	1,379	26	4	1
Sun	112	1,390	20	9	3

Status	Cases	Share
Unsolved	7,483	96%
Solved	78	1%
Charged / in court	210	2.7%
Primary suspect deceased	13	0.2%
Substantiated	1	0%
Ruled accidental	3	0%
Ruled self-inflicted	4	0.1%

Open for	Still missing	Unsolved	Unidentified	Unclaimed
Under 1 year	31	330	2	0
1-4 years	226	2,141	20	34
5-9 years	109	2,559	12	10
10-19 years	136	1,812	20	3
20-29 years	100	344	25	1
30-49 years	117	214	66	2
50+ years	19	83	12	1

Relationship	Victims
No known relationship	793
Not recorded	330
Coworker / work-related	269
Other acquaintance	143
Classmate / school-related	136
Romantic partner / ex	29
Family member	28

Type	Firearms
Handgun	248
Assault weapon	103
Shotgun	49
Rifle	49
Not recorded	7

Month	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Jan	89	652	15	8	0
Feb	88	551	12	4	0
Mar	77	626	18	3	1
Apr	77	612	16	3	0
May	72	623	14	6	1
Jun	74	670	12	3	0
Jul	82	726	13	2	1
Aug	74	685	11	2	1
Sep	82	635	16	4	0
Oct	80	728	18	6	1
Nov	77	617	14	4	1
Dec	97	657	18	6	1

North Carolina missing persons & unsolved case statistics

Cases by type

By state & province

By decade & year

By age

By sex

By race & ethnicity

Solve rates & how long cases stay open

Possible matches

Serial killers & mass murders

Longest-open cases

Community activity

Methodology & how to cite

What is counted

Limits

How to cite

Month	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Jan	89	652	15	8	0
Feb	88	551	12	4	0
Mar	77	626	18	3	1
Apr	77	612	16	3	0
May	72	623	14	6	1
Jun	74	670	12	3	0
Jul	82	726	13	2	1
Aug	74	685	11	2	1
Sep	82	635	16	4	0
Oct	80	728	18	6	1
Nov	77	617	14	4	1
Dec	97	657	18	6	1