Cold Cases in North Carolina
ColdCaseIndex documents 7 cases in North Carolina, dated 1901 to 2012. 2 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Nell Cropsey (1901) and the most recent is Faith Hedgepeth (2012).
- Unsolved 2 (29%)
- Charges or trial pending 1 (14%)
- Solved or convicted 4 (57%)
Homicide clearance in North Carolina, 1965 to 2024
A homicide is "cleared" when police make an arrest or close it by exceptional means, so an uncleared case is not always an unsolved one. Source: Murder Accountability Project analysis of FBI Uniform Crime Report data, as published by Project: Cold Case. These are statewide totals and are separate from the ColdCaseIndex entries listed below.
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Faith Hedgepeth
UNC-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth, 19, was found beaten to death in her off-campus apartment on September 7, 2012. Crime-scene DNA went unmatched for nine years, and a note written on a fast-food bag was found near her body.
Erica Parsons
Erica Parsons, 13, of Rowan County, North Carolina, died in December 2011 but was not reported missing until July 30, 2013. Her remains were found near Pageland, South Carolina, in September 2016.
Kyle Fleischmann
Kyle Fleischmann, 24, disappeared in the early hours of November 9, 2007, after leaving the Buckhead Saloon in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina.
Kathleen Peterson
Kathleen Peterson, 48, was found dead at the foot of a staircase in her Durham, North Carolina, home on December 9, 2001. Her husband, novelist Michael Peterson, said she fell; he was convicted of first-degree murder in 2003…
Asha Degree
Nine-year-old Asha Degree left her family home in the early morning hours during a storm and was last seen walking along Highway 18. Her bookbag was found buried in a construction site 26 miles away over a year later.
Zebb Wayne Quinn
Zebb Wayne Quinn, an 18-year-old Walmart employee, disappeared in Asheville, North Carolina, on January 2, 2000, after leaving work with a coworker to look at a car.
Nell Cropsey
Nineteen-year-old Ella Maud 'Nell' Cropsey disappeared from her family's home beside the Pasquotank River in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in November 1901; her body was found in the river on December 27.