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Candlelight vigil honors missing persons
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY)– Saturday the annual national candle light service was held at river front park on water street in honor of missing persons in wilmington and across the country. Missing people...
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#UNSOLVED: Man shot during storm, power outages in Wallace
WALLACE, NC (WWAY) — The Wallace Police Department is looking for answers in a murder that happened in the middle of a power outage from a strong storm. Michael Lamb, 25 was shot and killed at a...
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#UNSOLVED: Retired law enforcement volunteer to solve crime across NC
WALLACE, NC (WWAY) — There is a group of retired and active law enforcement in the state who volunteer to help solve crime known as the Carolinas Cold Case Coalition. “It’s not glamorous. You know...
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#UNSOLVED: Missing woman’s car found burned in Castle Hayne
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — Detectives from the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office and the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office are trying to figure out what happened to a woman who went missing in...
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Podcast explores events leading up to disappearance of Ebonee Spears
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A new podcast episode delves into the disappearance of a Wilmington woman who has been missing since January of 2016. The Vanished Podcast, which features stories of people who...
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Arrest made in #UNSOLVED case in Boiling Spring Lakes
BOILING SPRING LAKES, NC (WWAY) — The Boiling Spring Lakes Police Department has made an arrest in a case featured in WWAY’s #Unsolved series. Boiling Spring Lakes Police Chief Greg Jordan said Bryan...
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Police in NC city turn spotlight on cold case homicides
DURHAM, NC (AP) — Police in a North Carolina city have begun monthly news conferences to raise awareness of the approximately 250 cold cases involving homicides dating back to the 1950s. The Herald-Sun...
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#UNSOLVED: Woman missing from Leland since 1995
LELAND, NC (WWAY) — More than 24 years ago, a woman went missing in Leland. Her disappearance remains unsolved. Tammy Ferguson was reported missing almost two weeks after she was last seen in Leland in...
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#UNSOLVED: Man’s body found hours after Wilmington kidnapping
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY)– In 2017, a man’s body was found in Castle Hayne hours after he was abducted during an armed robbery in Wilmington. Detectives are still looking for the people responsible...
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#UNSOLVED: Man charged in 2016 murder in Wilmington
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A man has been charged in a 2016 murder in Wilmington featured on #Unsolved. According to Wilmington Police spokeswoman Linda Thompson, Cedric Alden Burnett, 23, is charged in...
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ONLY ON WWAY: Family defends suspect in Paitin Fields’ murder, sexual assault
PENDER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — More than two years after a 5-year-old was killed, no one has been arrested in connection to the case. Now, we are hearing from some of Paitin Fields’ family for the very...
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Suspect in 5-year-old’s murder released from prison
PENDER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — The only known suspect in the murder of 5-year-old Paitin Fields in Pender County has been released from prison. According to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety,...
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#UNSOLVED: New video shows moments before teen shot, killed
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Detectives are still looking for answers in the first murder of 2019 almost a year later. Newly released surveillance video shows what happened right before Zalleux Johnson, 18,...
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One year since Wilmington teen was shot and killed, case remains unsolved
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — It has been exactly one year since 18-year-old Zalleux Johnson was shot and killed in the first homicide of 2019. Friends and family gathered Friday night to honor and remember...
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#UNSOLVED: Hitch hikers find man stabbed to death in Leland in 1991
BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — A man died after being stabbed multiple times in Leland in 1991 leaving detectives with few answers 30 years later. For now, the murder of Jerry Millard Lyle, 26, remains...
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#UNSOLVED: Video shows car following victim before deadly shooting in Wilmington
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Wilmington Police are still looking for answers in an unsolved shooting death that happened early Christmas morning in 2020. Jalisa Bellamy, 31, a mother of two, was shot and...
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#UNSOLVED: Man found shot to death near Greenfield Lake in 2014
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Wilmington Police are still looking for information in a shooting death near Greenfield Lake in Wilmington in 2014. What led up to the death of Dillon Morris, 20, and who did it...
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Wilmington Police offering $5k for info in disappearance of Ebonee Spears
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Wilmington Police are making a new push to get information in the disappearance of a woman who went missing in 2016.. Ebonee Spears went missing on January 15, 2016. Spears was...
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#UNSOLVED: Husband, wife arrested after Nags Heads Police use DNA in 1991 case
NAGS HEAD, NC (WWAY) — We have an update on a cold case in North Carolina we told you about in WWAY’s unsolved series. A couple is charged with concealing the birth of a child whose remains were found...
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Wilmington man recently charged in ’96 rape case could be connected to...
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — We have new reaction after a Wilmington man was charged with a 25-year-old rape case Tuesday who may be connected to another unsolved case. On Tuesday, Wilmington Police charged...
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