2 Skeletons 4-27-08( Allison Foy and Angela Rothen) Wilmington, NC

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Human remains found in woods near Carolina Beach Road
By Tyra M. Vaughn,
Staff Writer
Published: Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 11:02 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 11:02 p.m.


Wilmington police officials have asked the medical examiner to try to identify human remains found Saturday in some woods near Carolina Beach Road.

Pieces of human skeletons believed to be from two people were found Saturday afternoon by a person walking in a wooded area behind the 3500 block of Carolina Beach Road, said Lucy Crockett, spokeswoman for the Wilmington Police Department.

Detectives searched the area Saturday, collected the bones and sent them to the medical examiner for identification. Police officials continued to search the area Sunday for additional evidence, Crockett said.

Until the medial examiner releases the results, there is little police officials can say about the incident. The age, sex and race of the people remain unclear, Crockett said.

Police also don't know how long the bones have been there or when and where the people might have died, Crockett said.

Crockett said police also are unsure if the remains are of any missing people in either Wilmington or elsewhere in the region.

Crockett doesn't know if the bones are connected to a crime, she said.

Crockett said the medical examiner results could be back in a few days.

"I'm really not sure how long it will take," she said.

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080427/ARTICLE/804270333/0/COLUMNIST29

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http://forums.starnewsonline.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8841089365/m/4611004617/r/276102561

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UMMMMMMMMMM.......this should be North Carolina. Could someone fix my error please? Egads...I even spelled the error wrong...lol.

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UMMMMMMMMMM.......this should be North Carolina. Could someone fix my error please? Egads...I even spelled the error wrong...lol.

Done. Hope they can Identify these remains. There is a missing couple who have dementia and Alzheimers missing from Ohio but they have friends/family in NC. They don't know where they were headed. Willard and Patty Frye.

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Bones found in woods may hold clues to '06 disappearance


Published: Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 7:32 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 7:32 p.m.
Since Allison Jackson-Foy disappeared from outside a pool hall near Monkey Junction almost two years ago, her sister has hoped for any clues that might solve the mystery.

Now, Lisa Valentino worries authorities may have found one. Two weeks ago, two skeletons were discovered in a wooded area off Carolina Beach Road.

Wilmington police sent the bones to the N.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner where they're being tested for identification.

On Friday, Chief Medical Examiner John Butts said the office is still identifying the remains and declined to release further information.

But Valentino, who lives in New Jersey, said authorities have asked her for Jackson-Foy's dental records, raising the possibility her sister might be one of those found.

"My heart has always told me my sister was no longer living," Valentino said. "Even if it's not my sister, they deserve to be brought home and their family deserves to know."

A possible connection

The bones were found April 26 in a wooded area near the 3500 block of Carolina Beach Road about three miles from where Jackson-Foy was last seen.

On July 30, 2006, Jackson-Foy was at Junction Billiards Sports Bar at 5216 Carolina Beach Road with a friend, according to Valentino and Monica Caison, founder of the CUE Center for Missing Persons, which has investigated the disappearance on the family's behalf.

Witnesses said Jackson-Foy met three girls from the Raleigh-Durham area at the bar, though Caison said she has been unable to locate them.

The car Jackson-Foy was driving was found in the pool hall's parking lot the day after she disappeared.

Capt. Barry Key of the Wilmington Police Department said the disappearance is an open case and that detectives have looked for Jackson-Foy and posted missing signs.

At one point, they investigated a rumor she'd been seen in Carolina Beach, but that lead, like all others was exhausted, he said.

Valentino said her sister was an outgoing young woman who loved life, friends, family and having fun.

She wasn't afraid to speak her mind, further convincing Valentino her sister wouldn't have left her family and not said why.

Jackson-Foy grew up on Long Island, the youngest of four, and moved to Wilmington with her husband and two daughters two years before she disappeared.

Since her disappearance, friends in New York and New Jersey have held fundraisers to pay for a private investigator who is also looking into her disappearance.

Waiting for word

Since the discovery of bones, Caison said, the CUE Center has received numerous calls from people with missing relatives.

And Valentino said an official with the medical examiner's office told her samples of the bones have been sent to a DNA database in Texas to be tested against DNA submitted by Jackson-Foy's family.

The official, she said, also told her the skeletons are of women - one 30 to 40 years old, the other 50 to 60.

On Friday, the medical examiner wouldn't confirm that information. The Wilmington Police Department officials also declined to comment on the bone testing until they receive an official report. Caison said she has told people with missing relatives the skeletons are women.

Still both Caison and Valentino said there's little they can do until the skeletons are identified.

CUE had several events planned for this summer's two-year anniversary of Jackson-Foy's disappearance. A billboard is in the works for Wilmington, Caison said, as well as a trip to Jackson-Foy's home area of New York and New Jersey.

Although the discovery of bones has Valentino and Caison anticipating test results, no one is jumping to conclusions. Caison said she knows of at least eight women missing from the Wilmington and Leland area.

"We're just remaining hopeful the DNA comes back and reveals (the identities) of two people who were missing," Caison said. "Either way, the family and the community have a right to know who it is."

Valentino said she also knows other families feel the way she does.

"Someone is responsible for those two bodies," she said. "Even if it's not my sister, if I was a resident of Wilmington, I would be nervous," she said. "I would want to know what's going on?"

http://wmedit.ny.publicus.com/article/20080510/ARTICLE/805100318/0/news05

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Wilmington police still working to identify remains found off Carolina Beach Road in April

By David Reynolds,
Staff Writer


Published: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 11:48 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 11:48 p.m.
Since the discovery of the skeletons of two white women nearly a month ago off Carolina Beach Road, Wilmington police have narrowed their focus to two women who disappeared a year apart, Detective R.L. Odham said Wednesday.

Odham said investigators have reviewed at least 10 missing persons cases from Wilmington and the nearby counties, and haven't ruled out the others as possibly being the ones whose bones were found.

Odham said he can't name the missing women whose cases police have given the most attention. He did confirm they are cases that already have been reported in local media.

One missing woman who has received media attention since the discovery is Allison Jackson-Foy, who disappeared June 30, 2006.

A search of the Star-News archive found two other adult women vanished one year before or after Jackson-Foy. Angela Nobles Rothen, 42, was one of those women. She was last heard from June 10, 2007. The Star-News could not immediately confirm the status of a second woman who was reported missing in May 2007.

A search of local media archives did not find recent news stories about a second missing woman.

Odham said three Wilmington police detectives have been working full time since April 26, the date the skeletons were found in a wooded area.

The focus is an effort to continue an investigation while lab workers are using DNA to identify the two sets of human bones.

Odham said he hopes that by the time remains are identified, police already will have learned through other evidence whose skeletons they've found.

"We're exploring all avenues at this point. We're not bypassing anything," said Odham, one of the detectives on the case. "We know we had missing person investigations on several persons," he said. "We're kind of backtracking to see what fits."

Although the identifications will give investigators a major boost, police don't know exactly when that will come. Meanwhile, Odham said, detectives have a few characteristics of the bones to guide their work.

Police are confident the bones are of white women, Odham said. Investigators also have evidence indicating height, weight and age, which he declined to release because those facts are unconfirmed.

The discovery and leads

A man found the bones behind a shuttered Mexican restaurant and near a clearing with metal towers.

In a statement released in April, police said, they found "scattered remains."

A WPD crime-scene unit spent the day and the Sunday after combing the woods locating all the bones, Odham said.

"We made sure we used every resource we had to make sure we didn't miss them," he said.

Police took the remains to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Chapel Hill. The bones were later forwarded to a lab in Texas, which will compare DNA from the bones to that of missing people.

Expecting the worst

The missing woman who has received the most media attention since bones were recovered is Jackson-Foy.

Her sister Lisa Valentino, who lives in New Jersey, has traveled to Wilmington numerous times to ensure neither the public nor police forget Jackson-Foy.

Since the bones were recovered, Valentino said, authorities have asked for her sister's dental records, a sign police are considering her sister as a possible victim in the investigation.

Jackson-Foy, who was 34 when she disappeared, lived in Wilmington with her husband and two children.

She was last seen outside Junction Billiards Sports Bar at 5216 Carolina Beach Road - three miles from the site where bones were found.

This week, Valentino again visited Wilmington, only this time, she's not hanging missing signs. Instead she visited the Carolina Beach Road site numerous times, going by herself and with Monica Caison of the CUE Center For Missing Persons, who Valentino said has helped with the search and supported her through hard times.

At the site on Wednesday, Valentino said if her sister is one of those whose bones have been found, it would come as some consolation if her death put police on the trail of a killer so they could prevent him from striking again.

Whoever the women are, she said, their ditched skeletons demand attention.

"This is your community," Valentino said. "This is happening in your backyard."

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080521/ARTICLE/805210354/1037/news01&title=Wilmington_police_still_working_to_identify_ remains_found_off_Carolina_Beach_Road_in_April

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http://www.kristenfoundation.org/cgi-bin/datacgi/database.cgi?file=hw&report=sp&ID=063

One possibility.........
Allison Jackson-Foy
Allison Jackson-Foy was last seen at the Junction Billiards Sports Bar located at 5216 Carolina Beach Road in Wilmington, NC; days later the vehicle Allison was driving was located in the parking of the billiard pub.

Classification: Endangered Missing Adult
Date of Birth: 1972-03-12
Date Missing: 2006-07-30
From City/State: Wilmington, NC
Missing From (Country): USA
Age at Time of Disappearance: 34
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 135 pounds
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Hazel/Green
Identifying Characteristics: Tattoo on buttock, mole on neck.
Clothing: Black shirt and shorts outfit, sandals.
Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown
Investigative Agency: Wilmington Police Department
Phone: (910) 343-3609 or (910) 343-3600

A reward is being offered for information leading to the direct location of Allison Jackson-Foy.

Family Web Site: http://helpfindallison.com/

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Allison Jackson-Foy

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Interesting discussion here.....>>

http://forums.starnewsonline.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8841089365/m/6061013327/r/7121014327

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Other woman mentioned above....
Angela Nobles Rothen

The New Hanover County Sheriff's department needs help finding a woman who has been missing since June. (2007)

Angela Nobles Rothen, 42, was reported missing last week by family members who last heard from her June 10, 2007.

Rothen, who was last seen on Lex Road in the county, is 5-foot-5 and weighs 120 pounds. She has short brown hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's office at 798-4200 or the detective division at 798-4260.
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/article/20070922/NEWS/709220386/-1/State

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Angela Nobles Rothen

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http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080528/ARTICLE/805280344/0/NEWS01

After years of leaving it alone, Carlton Nobles, 64, of Leland returned to gardening this spring. The work reminds him of when he was a young father, raising vegetables to feed his family. It also brings back memories of his oldest daughter Angela, who used to help him. While working he sees her face and dreams of her returning safely home.

"She's going to be found," Nobles said. "I ain't giving up until I'm proved different."

Angela Nobles Rothen hasn't been seen since June 10, and authorities suspect she is one of those whose skeletal remains were found off Carolina Beach Road in April.

But until DNA testing confirms the suspicion, the family holds out hope she's alive.

Still they face an unsettling prospect.

"It's almost disbelief," said Patricia Nobles, Angela's mother. "I just can't imagine someone hurting someone so bad."

Since the discovery of human remains off Carolina Beach Road on April 26, several of Angela's relatives have allowed police to swab the inside of the their mouths for DNA samples to compare to the bones.

Angela is the oldest of six children raised in Leland. She had three children and three grandchildren. Her parents said she had struggled with drugs, but was doing better when she disappeared.

Through it all, they said Angela was always happy, outgoing and kind. Her daughter Kimberley Bryant, 18, said she remembered her mother stopping to help stranded motorists. She took them home and fed them, Bryant said.

Her parents drove Angela home after a family member's birthday party on June 10. They heard from her once on the phone a week or so after, and never saw her again.

It took several weeks for relatives to realize Angela hadn't called any of them and then report her missing. Patricia Nobles disputed the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office records which indicate she wasn't reported missing until September.

After feeling the case was a low priority, relatives said they're pleased it is getting a serious look. But they're sorry the attention comes after the discovery of bones.

Carlton Nobles said he still wants there to be something he can do rather than just wait on DNA tests.

"If anybody's got her," he said, "I'd give everything I got. There'd be no questions."

David Reynolds: 343-2075

dave.reynolds@starnewsonline.com

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http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080528/ARTICLE/576199540/1004&title=Police_acknowledge_possibility_of_serial_kil ler_in_case_of_two_skeletons_found_off_Carolina_Be ach_Road

A Wilmington police detective acknowledged Wednesday that human bones found off Carolina Beach Road last month raise the possibility investigators are after a serial killer.

Since the discovery of the remains in a wooded area in the 3500 block of Carolina Beach Road on April 26, detectives have narrowed their investigation to two women – who disappeared a year apart – as the most likely victims.

If police are correct in their suspicion that Allison Jackson-Foy, 34, and Angela Nobles Rothen, 42, who disappeared a year apart, are the women whose skeletons were found in the same spot, Detective Lee Odham said common sense suggests their bodies were dumped by the same killer.

“That is a major concern we are looking into,” he said. Though Odham never used the phrase “serial killer,” he said, “The possibility does exist.”

Investigators also are considering other possibilities, he said.

And technically, by the FBI’s definition, serial murders require three or more killings, Odham said.

Police are still awaiting DNA test results to confirm the victims’ identities. Meanwhile, Odham said the department’s team of three investigators has shifted its focus to finding out who is responsible for their deaths.

“We can’t sit on our hands and wait,” he said. “We’re trying to get to it and figure out what the entire situation is.”

Left in the woods

On a Saturday afternoon in April, a passer-by found the scattered human remains in a narrow strip of woods off Carolina Beach Road.

The spot is about 100 feet from the road behind a closed-down Mexican restaurant. It bumps up against a clearing near a metal tower – an area accessed by a gravel road.

Police spent two days at the site as crime-scene technicians gathered bones. The bones are now at a lab in Texas where scientists are comparing the remains to DNA samples given by the families of missing women. Relatives of both Jackson-Foy and Nobles Rothen said they provided information for the tests.

The bones are of two white women, police have said, and other indicators have led them to suspect Jackson-Foy and Nobles Rothen.

Jackson-Foy was last seen July 30, 2006, at Junction Billiards Sports Bar at 5216 Carolina Beach Road – three miles south of where the bones were found. Her car was still in the bar’s parking lot the day after her disappearance.

She grew up on Long Island, the youngest of four, and moved to Wilmington with her husband and two daughters two years before her disappearance.

Jackson-Foy’s sister, Lisa Valentino, who lives in New Jersey, said she believes her sister is one of those recovered.

Less is known about the disappearance of Nobles Rothen.

A cold case

Nobles Rothen’s parents and daughter said they last saw her at a birthday party on June 10, 2007. She was driven home to Lex Road in New Hanover County. Angela called once after that, relatives said, then was never heard from again.

Family members said they reported her missing to the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office three weeks later. They felt they weren’t taken seriously and said they thought it was because Nobles Rothen was a grown woman with a troubled past.

Court records show she had convictions for drugs and misdemeanors like property damage and possessing stolen goods.

“It was like it didn’t matter,” said Patricia Nobles, her mother, who lives in Leland. “They thought she had left.”

Detective Ken Murphy, who investigates cold cases for the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office, said records show Nobles Rothen’s daughter reported her missing in September 2007 – three months after she was last seen. Every missing person case is taken seriously, Murphy said, but deputies were months behind and had little to go on.

They patrolled Fifth Avenue and Meares Street in Wilmington where Nobles Rothen hung out, Murphy said, without success.

“It was almost waiting on leads,” he said. “Then the bones came up.” At that point the sheriff’s office passed their information to WPD.

Piecing it together

While awaiting the results of DNA testing, investigators and family members of the missing wrestle with uncertainty.

Patricia Nobles said an investigator told her one of the skeletons has false teeth, which she knows points to her daughter. Still she’s holding out hope Angela is alive.

Marc Benson, a private investigator looking into Jackson-Foy’s disappearance, said he’s looked for similarities between his client and other missing women.

The only similarity he believes exists between Jackson-Foy and Nobles Rothen is both were last seen on Carolina Beach Road between Shipyard Boulevard and Monkey Junction. That information could not be confirmed by police.

Odham said Nobles Rothen also hung out at Junction Pub & Billiards, where Jackson-Foy was last seen.

But the bar is a popular spot, he said, so the lead in itself tells investigators little.

Court records show both women faced trouble with the law. Nobles Rothen had a criminal record. Most recently, a misdemeanor charge of possessing drug paraphernalia was dropped by authorities four months before her family said she disappeared.

Authorities obtained warrants against Jackson-Foy but never served them. New Hanover County District Court records show summonses for bad checks and felony warrants for embezzlement and forgery – none of which was ever served against her.

Without the DNA test results no one knows for certain who the women are or what could possibly connect them.

But whoever they are, Odham said, their case shouldn’t remain a mystery.

“The fact is it’s two people,” he said. “We need to find out who hurt them and who killed them.”

He asked anyone with any information on the disappearance of Jackson-Foy or Nobles Rothen to call the Wilmington Police Department at 343-3600.

David Reynolds: 343-2075

dave.reynolds@starnewsonline.com

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Pretty scary if you ask me. I can well imagine the families of these two women are sitting on pins and needles waiting for the results. When my daughter died the ME knew who she was but it took 8 weeks to find out what killed her. I just cannot even imagine not knowing where your child is for one day let alone one or two years. I pray that these two families find peace. I also hope that whoever these two women are that their families will have a good support for them.

jmoo

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http://www.wect.com/Global/story.asp?S=8397941&nav=2gQc

Possible identities known of skeletal remains found in woods near Carolina Beach Road

Updated: May 30, 2008 11:57 AM EDT
WILMINGTON -- Police are not calling two sets of skeletal remains found off Carolina Beach road the work of a serial killer, but they do say it could be possible.

It has been nearly a year since Patricia Nobles has seen her daughter Angela.

In June 2007, the 42-year-old woman disappeared.

Now, police are investigating the possibility they have found her body.

"I really don't want to believe it's my child," said Nobles.

Nobles is referring to the two sets of human bones that were found in woods off Carolina Beach Road in April.

According to the medical examiner, they are two white women, one in her 30's and the other in her 40's.

Police said the other set of remains could be Alison Jackson Foy, another missing Wilmington woman.

Foy vanished nearly two years ago. Her DNA has been sent to the same Texas lab as Noble's to be analyzed.

Both skeletons were found in the same shallow grave.

Police haven't ruled out the possibility of a serial killer, but they are downplaying a report in the Star News by saying,"There is no significant change in the status of this investigation. There's no major break in the case indicating that a 'serial killer' is involved. We regret the implication of the StarNews headline ['Police: 2 bodies could be work of serial killer.']"

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Backlog at DNA lab keeps families waiting
Remains found in Wilmington are at Texas lab for identification
By David Reynolds,
Staff Writer


Published: Friday, June 6, 2008 at 5:50 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 6, 2008 at 10:52 p.m.
For forensic analyst Melody Josserand, the best moments come outside the lab when she tells families their loved ones have been found.

Although most of her cases involve identifying human remains, Josserand said families want to know the truth so they can stop wondering and move on.

But often she doesn't get the chance. Many of the bones at the Center for Human Identification at the University of North Texas Health Science Center are from people whose relatives don't know where to look.

Or worse. "Some of these no one is looking for," Josserand said. "Sadly, some of these bodies are people who have wandered off and nobody notices. Some are homeless people."

Two sets of remains at the DNA lab in Fort Worth are the skeletons found in the 3500 block of Carolina Beach Road on April 26. With several families and law enforcement awaiting the identifications, Josserand said, the case should have priority status at the lab, which has a backlog of more than 250 anonymous people. She said once the process begins it takes three to four weeks to get an identification.

Lab officials referred specific questions about the bones to the Wilmington Police Department, which is currently not commenting on the investigation.

Speaking generally, Josserand explained how analysts identify bones by comparing DNA to samples taken from the relatives who are looking for them.

The recovery

On April 26, a passerby found the scattered human remains in a small-wooded area behind a closed Mexican Restaurant on Carolina Beach Road. Police said the remains are those of two white women who were murdered. A detective involved in the case acknowledged one possibility being investigated is that the women were the victims of a serial killer.

WPD crime-scene technicians spent two days combing the area to ensure all the bones were recovered.

After that, three detectives began trying to figure out who the victims are and who put their bones or bodies in the woods.

Authorities suspect the bones may be Allison Jackson-Foy, 34, and Angela Nobles Rothen, 42, - women who went missing almost a year apart in the summers of 2006 and 2007. But detectives are waiting on the Texas DNA lab to tell them for sure.

Relatives of Jackson-Foy and Nobles Rothen have said they've provided authorities with DNA samples to assist with the process.

Identifications

Many types of DNA analysis use a suspect's DNA to place them at a crime scene. But the human identification center seldom works in exact matches. Instead the center's 10 analysts create DNA profiles from bone samples and look for similarities with profiles given by relatives.

Analysts take a bone fragment about 1 centimeter by 2 centimeters and grind it into powder, Josserand said. They use chemicals to extract DNA from the powder and an amplification process to create the profile.

Creating a profile can be difficult from skeletons that have been burned, boiled or exposed to the elements a very long time, she said.

Analysts create two types of DNA profiles - nuclear and mitochondrial. A nuclear DNA profile is unique to each person though relatives may have some "markers" in common.

Mitochondrial DNA aren't unique, but since they're usually identical between mother and child, that profile helps link a missing person to his or her relatives.

Police take DNA samples from possible relatives and put the samples into an FBI-run database called the Combined DNA Index System or CODIS.

CODIS has upward of 6 million DNA profiles taken from criminals and crime scenes, as well as relatives of the missing, and others.

Analysts compare the profiles they create from the bones with profiles in the database.

If a relative has a baby tooth of the missing person, lab analysts could use DNA from the tooth to find an exact match with the profile from the remains.

N.C. Chief Medical Examiner John Butts said cooperation between his office and the Texas lab is relatively new. The Human Identification Center works on a federal grant and is free for law enforcement, but its backlog makes it slow, Butts said.

Private labs are faster but charge police departments or family members several thousand dollars for an identification, he said. The medical examiner's office isn't funded to pay for DNA identifications on recovered bones, he said.

Fortunately, Butts said, most bodies are identified without DNA. The medical examiner identifies bodies by comparing bones with X-rays, dental records or fingerprints, he said. DNA identification is a last resort, takes longer and is more expensive, he said.

Missing still

Monica Caison, founder of Community United Effort, said CODIS's ability to connect bodies found in one state with relatives far away is an asset. CUE is a nonprofit based in Wilmington which searches for missing people.

Since 2003, Caison has told relatives to have their DNA profiles uploaded in CODIS in missing person cases where foul play is suspected. Waiting until after a body has been found to give an oral DNA swab is traumatic for families, Caison said.

Law enforcement and medical examiners also should make sure profiles of any recovered bodies are put in the database, she said.

Josserand also said getting profiles in CODIS is vital for the DNA identification process.

Of the 674 bones the lab has created profiles from, they've succeeded in identifying only 177. The other 497 profiles remain unidentified primarily because the relatives of the missing - people with similar DNA profiles - aren't in the system.

"If you're missing a family member," Josserand said, "grab all your family and go to the police department to be swabbed."

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080606/ARTICLE/806060333

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HAT TIP >> FAITH
http://www.ncwanted.com/ncwanted_home/story/3068027/

Wilmington: Man Wanted for Questioning

Posted: Jun. 18, 2008 10:18 p.m.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2008 11:14 p.m.

The Wilmington Police Department is requesting assistance in publicizing a new composite drawing. Wilmington Police say a witness provided the description for the composite.

The man depicted in the drawing is reported to have been seen several times in the general area along Carolina Beach Road, where human skeletal remains were found on April 26th, 2008.

The man was described as a white male in his 50's, medium build and a fair complexion, between 6' 0" and 6' 3" tall, and approximately 210 to 230 pounds.

After the human remains were found in April, cadaver dogs were used on May 2, 2008 to search the heavily wooded area near Carolina Beach Road in Wilmington.

According to police, the remains in April are believed to have been two white females. The skeletal remains are currently being processed for DNA.

Police are saying the identification process could take several weeks.

Detectives would like to interview a man who resembles the sketch to determine if he has information valuable to the ongoing investigation.

Some media outlets have reported various rumors about the discoveries. But NC WANTED has not received further information from law enforcement to validate the rumors.

Anyone who recognizes the man, or who may have seen him, is asked to call the Wilmington Police Department at 910-343-3600.

You can also call NC WANTED toll free at 1.866.43.WANTED (1.866.439.2683) or click on "Report a Tip" Your identity can be kept confidential.
_____________________

In April 2008, remains were found along the Carolina Beach Road area in Wilmington. According to a witness, this sketch resembles a man seen in the area where the remains were found.

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I hope the ID comes soon, so these women can be returned to their families.

[packy]

The waiting has to be agony.

I wonder how long that restaurant had been closed. Might be that it is a crime scene.

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Nearby workers worried as no arrests made in bones case

By David Reynolds,
Staff Writer


Published: Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 5:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 11:12 p.m.

When longtime friends Robert Nestasia and Paul Gabriele moved to Wilmington from Long Island, they thought they were leaving big-city life and the crime that comes with it. They imagined a slower pace, raising families and working with friends at an auto-body shop.

Then four months after taking over Affordable Collision on Carolina Beach Road, someone made a frightening discovery in the woods across the street.

On April 26 a passer-by found the skeletal remains of two women behind businesses in the 3500 block of Carolina Beach Road. Police said the women were murdered.

"In my mind it's a random incident," Gabriele said, adding that it doesn't change how he feels about the neighborhood.

Still, he and others who work in the area said that two months after the discovery, the mystery isn't far from their minds. They wonder about what happened to the two women and worry for the families.

"It's mostly for closure for the families," Nestasia said. "These two families are wondering where their daughters are."

The crime and investigation

Wilmington police have said they suspect the bones are of two women who vanished almost a year apart in the summers of 2006 and 2007.

But authorities are awaiting results from a DNA lab to confirm their suspicion that the remains are of Allison Jackson-Foy, 34, of Wilmington and Angela Nobles Rothen, 42, of New Hanover County.

Relatives of those women have sent DNA samples for comparison to the lab in Texas. Wilmington police have said three detectives have worked on the case full time since the bones were found. One detective on the case acknowledged police have considered the possibility of a serial killer, though authorities have since downplayed that possibility. Jack Levin, an expert on serial killers, said the slayings could be the work of a very organized, prolific killer.

Last week, police released a sketch of a man who a witness saw several times in the vicinity of the discovery. Authorities said only that they wanted to talk to the man.

On Thursday, WPD spokeswoman Lucy Crockett said airing the sketch in the media led to calls and that those leads are being investigated. But police still want anyone who knows the man to call them, she said.

Lingering questions

The bones were found in a narrow strip of woods that sits off the road and out of view. Still, several who work in the block said they wonder about the case's progression.

Bobby Farrow, 58, who has run Farrow Garage for more than 20 years, said people in the neighborhood are curious and some are scared. "We never thought nothing like that happened around here," he said.

Farrow worries the sketch of a white man in his 50s with a mustache, cap and glasses is too generic to turn up a solid lead. It reminds him of several people, he said, but no one in particular.

His son Robbie Farrow, who works at the garage, said he wonders how long the bones were in the woods before being found. "It's hard to believe they were that close and nobody noticed," he said. "It bothers me they sat there so long and nobody found them."

Although police haven't speculated on when the bones were put there, Jackson-Foy was reported missing in July 2006 - close to two years before the discovery.

For Melody Blizzard, whose family runs Randy's Auto Service, learning the women's identities is the most pressing question. After that, other answers may follow, she said. The director of the Center for Human Identification at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, where the bones are being tested, was unavailable for comment this week. An official with the center has said that once the lab has all it needs for the identification it usually takes three to four weeks, but it can take longer.

Although concerned, Blizzard said she thinks the heavily traveled business area is safe.

Other neighbors expressed more concern. One woman who works in a nearby store said she didn't want her name in the paper because she was scared. "I know they're out there," she said. "If the police ain't got them, they're out there."

A clerk at La Guelaguetza, a Latino grocery, serves customers from behind glass. The woman, who also asked not to be named because of her fears, said the precaution was added after the bones were discovered.

"I wish they catch them and put them in jail," she said. "It's really scary."

Michele Zapple, who runs Carolina Gymnastics Academy, said she'd like more police patrols of the neighborhood. Crime has become a problem throughout the community as the city has grown, she said. Still, she feels police put more resources in some areas than others.

The police department in 2007 addressed concerns such as those expressed by Zapple by deploying its geographic policing initiative, which divides the city into zones and has officers responsible for each zone.

Gabriele said he wonders if police have the resources they need to solve mysteries that begin with as little to go on as bones found in the woods. Still, he said he's confident the case will someday be solved. "He'll do something somewhere else and they'll link it to this," Gabriele said.

Bobby Farrow said he hopes the discovery near his business is where it stops. "I don't want to see it go to rest," he said. "I want to see something done about it."

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080629/ARTICLE/806290326/1015/COLUMNIST29&title=Nearby_workers_worried_as_no_arrests_made_in _bones_case

[TigressPen]

Work to identify human remains continues; report near on one set


Published: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 8:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 9:23 p.m.


David Reynolds

Staff Writer


Lab analysts are continuing their efforts to identify the bones of two people found in Wilmington, and are nearing completion of their study of one set, an official said Wednesday.

The University of North Texas Center for Human Identification will report its findings on one set of bones to authorities in a week or two, according to Arthur Eisenberg, the center's director.

He declined to say whether that set of remains has been identified, citing a need for authorities to release specific information. But he said both cases are a priority and he gave a rough estimate of when they'll be completed.

While one report is due soon, the second set of remains must be reprocessed and could take another month or more, he said.

"We're actively working on it," Eisenberg said. "One of the samples has been a little more difficult, but by no means are we giving up. We believe we will get conclusive results."


The case


The two sets of bones, found April 26 in a wooded area off the 3500 block of Carolina Beach Road, sparked an investigation that's been a priority for several detectives at the Wilmington Police Department.

A detective involved with the case acknowledged one possibility police are investigating is that the women were the victims of a serial killer. Although police later downplayed, that possibility, an expert on serial killers said the work could be that of an organized, prolific killer.

Police have confirmed they suspect the remains are of two murdered women who went missing a year apart in the summers of 2006 and 2007.

Family members of Allison Jackson-Foy, 34, of Wilmington and Angela Nobles Rothen, 42, of New Hanover County, the women police suspect have been found, have submitted DNA samples for testing, they said.

Analysts in Texas are using DNA to identify the remains to notify families and ensure police are headed in the right direction in their investigation.

Lab analysts extract DNA samples from human remains and compare them with samples submitted by the relatives of missing people.


About the center


Since the Center for Human Identification receives federal funds, it provides the service free for law enforcement, officials have said. A private lab would cost authorities or victims' families thousands of dollars for an identification.

DNA profiles, whether taken from bones or given by relatives, are uploaded into an FBI-run database called the Combined DNA Index System or CODIS.

Speaking generally, Eisenberg said anyone with a relative who disappeared under suspicious circumstances should go to police and have their DNA profile put in CODIS. Nationwide, he said, authorities are investigating more than 100,000 missing person cases. Still, many relatives haven't put their DNA samples in the system for comparison with recovered remains.

Identifications are important so families can learn what happened and so authorities can prevent future killings, Eisenberg said.

"There are murderers out there," he said, adding that more than half of the lab's cases are suspected homicide victims. "The identification of these remains is the first step in a murder investigation."

David Reynolds: 343-2075

dave.reynolds@starnewsonline.com

[Nut44x4]

Two Years Later, A Family Waits
From NC WANTED Staff

Posted: Jul. 31, 2008 8:43 a.m.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2008 10:41 a.m.

NEW HANOVER COUNTY
Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of Allison Jackson Foy's disappearance. Remains found in Wilmington have been preliminarily identified by police as Foy, but investigators and family members await DNA confirmation from the medical examiner's office.

For Lisa Valentino, Allison's sister, the waiting has been a frustrating journey.

"We want this one chapter closed. We want to be able to bring Allison home and put her to rest… and then, move on, move on from there," Valentino told NC WANTED. "But I don’t know what that world is going to be like. I mean, I imagine it is going to be difficult to know that somebody took my sister’s life and they have no idea who did it. And that person is still out there somewhere."

Valentino said police showed her photos of the scene where Allison was found and that "was the nail in the coffin."

Two sets of remains were found together in a wooded area off Carolina Beach Road, which have been preliminarily identified as Foy and Angela Rothen in search warrants released earlier this month. Valentino believes both were killed and dumped there by the same person.

The warrants were used to search the house, car and storage unit owned by Timothy Craig Iannone, 47, who has not been named a suspect in the case.

According to the search warrant, Iannone was a cab driver who frequented the area where the remains were located and has a criminal history. In August 2007, he was arrested for the kidnapping, rape and assault of a prostitute in the area near where the remains were found. He is currently on probation.

If you have information on this case, call NC WANTED toll free at 1.866.43.WANTED (1.866.439.2683) or click on "Report a Tip" Your identity can be kept confidential.

http://www.ncwanted.com/unsolved/story/3307322/

[Nut44x4]

Missing woman's kin get the news
Sunday, August 03, 2008
It was the news Lisa Valentino of Green Township and her family have been dreading, yet also anxiously awaiting.

Human remains found in April in Wilmington, N.C., are believed to be those of Valentino's sister, Allison Jackson-Foy, 35, of Wilmington, who vanished without a trace two years ago.

A positive identification awaits DNA testing, but Valentino said authorities have told her they are "99 percent" sure it's Allison's remains, because her personal items also were found at the scene. The remains were found 1 1/2 miles from a bar where Foy was last seen.

They were found near another set of human remains believed to be from another woman who went missing a year ago in Wilmington. Search warrants were executed at the home of a "person of interest" in the case, but no arrests have been made nor charges filed.

Valentino's family has since been awaiting results on the DNA test from the national Center for Human Identification in Texas. If the tests give a positive ID for Allison, the remains would be released to her family, which would have a funeral service in her childhood hometown of Oyster Bay, Long Island.

"It's been brutal waiting for two years" for a break in the case, Valentino said. "We could finally bring a resolution to this and bring her home, and move on to the next part of this nightmare."

There are some 51,000 other adults listed as missing in the United States who have families in similar predicaments to Valentino's. Time often is not on the side of the missing, or those who are searching for them, because possible leads may quickly go cold. That's partly because it's not necessarily a crime to be missing, and in many cases adults disappear on their own free will for any number of reasons, and eventually resurface.

But a new law in New Jersey may help solve cases more quickly. "Patricia's Law" was enacted in March by the Legislature. Modeled after bills under consideration across the country, the law is named after Patricia Viola, a Bergen County woman who vanished from her Bogota home in 2001, leaving behind her husband and two children.

The law requires police to immediately try to determine if the missing person is at high-risk of being a victim of foul play; to immediately enter high-risk cases into various federal crime databases; to obtain DNA samples, if possible, from a missing person, such as from a hairbrush or toothbrush, and enter it into a national database no later than 30 days after a report is filed; and to inform families of national clearinghouses of missing persons and support groups.

"It's something that needs to be passed in all states," said Valentino, who promoted the bill in Trenton. "I hope other people don't have to go through what my family has gone through."

An arrest in the Foy case would open up a new chapter, that of a possible trial.

"I've come to learn how to live in this world of missing persons. I know the calls to make, who to call, what to do -- but now this would be a whole new area, the world of homicide victims," Valentino said.

But that would be preferable to having no arrests made.

"If I have to spend the next 20 years of my life finding out who did this to these two women, one being my sister, then that's what I'll have to do," Valentino vowed.

Meanwhile, the fifth annual national "On The Road to Remember" tour promoting awareness of missing persons will stop in Hackettstown in honor of Jackson-Foy, on Aug. 23 at 3:30 p.m. at the Church of the Assumption on High Street, where Valentino works. The tour is organized by Monica Caison, founder of the Wilmington-based nonprofit Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons, who has been assisting Valentino during the past two years.

For more information, see www.helpfindallison.com.

http://www.nj.com/starledger/stories/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/1217738165123640.xml&coll=1

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[Nut44x4]

ONE ID IS IN ............. RIP Allison
Newsday (New York)

September 12, 2008 Friday

Human remains found in a wooded area in North Carolina are those of a mother of two with Long Island roots, police said. Allison Jackson-Foy, 34, who grew up in Syosset, had been missing since 2006, when she was seen at a bar in Wilmington, N.C. Her remains, along with those of another woman, were found in April. DNA results released Wednesday showed the remains were those of Jackson-Foy. The cause of death has not been determined. Lucy Crockett, a spokeswoman for the Wilmington Police Department, said detectives are not ruling out the possibility that the women were killed by the same person.
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[packy]

Thank you for the update, Nut44. May she rest in peace now.

I wondered when it was that the family was at least told that personal items were hers and that they were 99% certain. Surely they didn't wait from April to June to at least tell the family that much.

[delilah]

Recently Recovered Wilmington Woman’s Service is Planned

Family plans to return to North Carolina to bring Allison Jackson Foy Home

Wilmington, NC – The CUE Center for Missing Persons announces, funeral pans are set for once missing Allison Jackson Foy for Monday September 22nd at Francis P. Devine Funeral Home in Oyster Bay NY. Hours will be from 2-4pm and from 7-9pm. Tuesday September 23rd at 9:30am there will be a Mass at St Hyacinth RC Church at 9:30am; family will receive friends at the family’s home. Funeral home is located at 293 South Street in Oyster Bay NY and their phone # is (516) 922-6700 their website is: www.fpdevinefuneralhome.com , the public is welcome to attend. Allison’s family will arrive late Thursday night to Wilmington and will be in the area until Saturday to bring their loved one home for her final resting place.

“This past two year’s have been an on going torment for our family, not knowing the fate of my sister, now we are finally coming to bring her home, were she is loved, her roots, her friends and her family”, said Lisa Valentino, Allison’s sister. I knew all along my sister would never leave on her own or her children; it has been a struggle to get most people to believe that. People need to understand we, the family knows our missing loved and adults are going missing all across the nation, daily.

“It is a sad time for everyone who has been involved in the search for Allison; our hearts go out to her family as they have pushed forward ever step of the way in her case” said CUE’s Founder, Monica Caison. “Some members of the CUE Center will travel this week to attend the services”, Ms. Caison added.

The case of Allison Jackson Foy remains open although her status has changed from missing to homicide. Anyone with information about Allison Jackson Foy’s disappearance or her whereabouts is asked to call WPD (910) 343-3600 or the confidential 24-hour tip-line at the CUE Center for Missing Persons: (910) 232-1687. Tips can also be cuecenter@aol.com or left at the Center’s Web site at www.ncmissingpersons.org.

[Nut44x4]

Newsday

September 19, 2008 Friday

Allison Jackson-Foy loved dancing, swimming in the backyard pool and family trips to an upstate dude ranch when she was growing up in Syosset and Oyster Bay.

Back then, she was Allison Mazalewski. Now, sadness tempers her family's happy memories.

On Sept. 10, results of DNA testing found that skeletal remains discovered on April 26 in a wooded area in Wilmington, N.C., belonged to Jackson-Foy, missing since July 30, 2006, when she was 34. The remains of another woman missing since 2007 also were found at the same time. A final autopsy report for Jackson-Foy is pending and a police investigation continues.

Detectives are not ruling out the possibility that the women were killed by the same person, a spokeswoman for the Wilmington Police Department, said last week.

Jackson-Foy disappeared after someone called a cab to take her home from Junction Pub & Billiards, where she met a friend. She lived in Wilmington with her second husband, Michael Foy, and two daughters, Courtney Jackson, 14, and Jordan Foy, 6.

"It's definitely a resolution and it's going to be nice to finally bring her home," said Jackson-Foy's sister, Lisa Valentino, of Green Township, N.J., Wednesday.

After graduating from high school, Jackson-Foy taught at her father's dance studio, Let's Make Music and Dance, in Glen Head, and coached gymnastics at M.A.T.S.S. Kids Gym in Syosset.

In Wilmington, Jackson-Foy taught gymnastics and began working as assistant manager of a Holiday Inn just before she vanished.

"The one thing I can say about my sister is that she was very vivacious and had a tremendous love of life, a great laugh and a contagious smile," Valentino said.

Jackson-Foy's father, John Mazalewski of East Norwich, still owns the dance studio where she once taught. "She was a special little kid and had a great personality," he said.

Mazalewski said he had learned "there are tens of thousands of missing people in this country."

The family has asked for donations in lieu of flowers to the CUE Center for Missing Persons in Wilmington, N.C.

Other survivors include a brother, John Mazalewski Jr., of Newcastle, Del.; sister Michele Drexler, of East Norwich; and numerous nephews and nieces.

Visiting will be at Francis P. DeVine Funeral Home Inc. in Oyster Bay on Monday. There will be a funeral Mass at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Hyacinth Catholic Church, Glen Head.
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[delilah]

Can you believe this! The family had a memorial, went to the site where her remains were found, and discovered more bones!! How horrifying for them.


http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/3578662/

Wilmington, N.C. — Family and friends visiting the location where skeletal remains of two women were found in April said they found more bones at the site.

Lisa Valentino told the Star-News of Wilmington that she wanted to leave flowers and find closure when she went to the site where the remains of her sister, Allison Jackson-Foy, 34, were found. Instead, she and a friend found bones nearby and called police to come get them.

The remains of Jackson-Foy and those of 42-year-old Angela Nobles Rothen, 42, were found in the wooded area behind a closed restaurant along Carolina Beach Road.

Jackson-Foy disappeared July 30, 2006, after last being seen at Junction Billiards Sports Bar at 5216 Carolina Beach Road. Rothen went missing on June 10, 2007, under similar circumstances.

An autopsy showed that Rothen's neck had been cut, her skull fractured and her body beaten. Wilmington police do not know how Jackson-Foy died; DNA testing confirmed her identity in September.

At first, police refused to connect the cases, but after two sets of female remains were found in the same area, investigators said they are confident one person killed both women.

Earlier this summer, police released a composite sketch and searched searched a home, car, and storage unit belonging to Timothy Craig Iannone, 47.

Iannone, however, has not been named a suspect, and police have not made any arrests.

[packy]

What a shock for them to find more remains. I wonder if they are of a third person or more of the remains of the two women.

For the record here is a report of the confirmation of Angela Rothen's remains. Not sure if we had it here.

[Nut44x4]

Where Packy? lol... link please.

[packy]

I'm sorry I thought I pasted the link. http://www.ncwanted.com/ncwanted_home/story/3248495/

[delilah]

This is a link to an online guestbook for Allison's family if you would like to leave words of condolence for them.

http://www.legacy.com/StarNewsOnline/GB/Gu...sonId=117669859

[nanabillie]

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080925/ARTICLES/809250289/0/COLUMNIST19

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Autopsy report: Jackson-Foy died of stab wounds


By Dave Reynolds (dave.reynolds@starnewsonline.com)
Staff Writer


Published: Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 1:10 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 3:48 p.m.
For more than two years, Lisa Valentino suspected her sister was dead and asked friends and strangers not to give up trying to learn what happened to her. Two weeks ago, she learned more when DNA testing confirmed that Allison Jackson-Foy, 34, was one of the two women whose bones were found in the woods off Carolina Beach Road in April.

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Still, through the hours of hanging missing person posters and waiting for test results, Valentino says she tried not to wonder about her younger sister’s last moments.
But this week she had no choice.
On Wednesday night, Valentino, of New Jersey, received a copy of her sister’s autopsy report from the N.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. It showed the pink sleeveless top Jackson-Foy wore, littered with stab wounds in the front and back.
“That is a horrible, horrific ending to someone’s life,” Valentino said. “I can only imagine the fear and the horror of what my sister was feeling.”
The latest autopsy results mean that both she and Angela Nobles Rothen, 42, the woman whose bones were found next to Jackson-Foy’s, were both killed by someone wielding a knife.
The case
On April 26 a passerby discovered the two women’s bones in a narrow strip of woods behind a shuttered Mexican restaurant in the 3500 block of Carolina Beach Road.
Almost five months later, DNA testing showed the women were Jackson-Foy of Wilmington and Nobles Rothen of New Hanover County, who went missing a year apart in the summers of 2006 and 2007. An investigator earlier acknowledged the possibility the women were the victims of a serial killer, one an expert said could be prolific.
As scientists identified the bones, investigators with the Wilmington Police Department tried to find a killer. In June, police searched a home in the Monkey Junction area – the former residence of a man who had been arrested on an allegation of raping a prostitute at knife-point in the summer of 2007.
The man pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was put on probation. In the affidavit, police alleged several prostitutes had accused the man of violent crimes that were never prosecuted.
On Thursday, Detective Mike Overton declined to elaborate on whether that resident is still a focus of the investigation. “The case is still under investigation,” he said. “Nobody’s ruled out, and we’re still considering all leads.”
While recent identifications and autopsy reports have answered some questions others have recently appeared.
Last week, while visiting the site on Carolina Beach Road with Monica Caison of the CUE Center For Missing Persons, Valentino found five more bones. Police say they believe the bones are missing components from the skeletons they’ve already found and that they were probably underground when they collected the evidence in April, and recently surfaced.
The bones have been sent to the DNA lab in Texas for confirmation that they’re either Jackson-Foy’s or Nobles Rothen’s.
But Overton said the testing could take months because the lab has a backlog of bones to identify. While the skeletons were a priority for the busy lab, the handful of newly recovered bones are not, Overton said.
The autopsy
The autopsy report says the pink knit sweater or shirt that was discovered with Jackson-Foy’s nearly complete skeleton shows multiple defects consistent with stab wounds. The autopsy determined there were 27 defects smaller than an inch. Also, the back of the piece of clothing showed 13 such defects.
Many of the stab wounds were concentrated in the lower left of the front of the shirt, the autopsy showed.
An examination of the remains found evidence of stab wounds to the ribs, vertebrae and sternum.
The condition of the remains led the examiner to conclude that Jackson-Foy’s death, by stabbing, occurred around the time she disappeared.
The report also said two arm bones were missing from her skeleton. One of the bones found last week was an arm bone.
Valentino learned the frightening details of her sister’s death within a few days of receiving Jackson-Foy’s remains for burial. Although it’s painful, she said she’s glad to have answers – something some families with missing relatives may never get.
“What’s most important is we have a resolution. … I know she’s in a better place,” Valentino said. But one question remains – who killed the two women? That Valentino said, is up to the police to answer.
“I do believe that the police are working on it,” she said. “I just hope that they do their job and find the person or persons responsible.”
Staff writer Veronica Gonzalez contributed to this story.
David Reynolds: 343-2075
dave.reynolds@starnewsonline.com (dave.reynolds@starnewsonline.com)
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[packy]

So many stab wounds seems like overkill. I hope they find who did this. Wonder if they ever found the 3 girls that were mentioned in relation to Allison the day she disappeared.

Back on May 21st it was reported in one of the articles that they believed they searched good and had found all the remains, then later in Sept. I believe the family finds more. Doesn't seem like it was a very reliable search in the beginning. Possible serial killer is out there and two bodies, I would think they'd go over every inch.

[Faith]

DNA test confirms human remains those of Wilmington woman

By David Reynolds
Staff Writer

Published: Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 2:10 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 2:10 p.m.

Testing has confirmed suspicions by police that additional bones found off Carolina Beach Road belong to one of the two women whose remains were found in the same spot last April.

The bones, which were found Sept. 19 are those of Allison Jackson-Foy, 34, of Wilmington, according to a statement from Lucy Crockett, spokeswoman for the Wilmington Police Department. Detectives learned of the identification earlier this week, according to the statement released Thursday.

Jackson-Foy was one of two women whose skeletons were found April 26, 2008, in the woods near the 3500 block of Carolina Beach Road.

The discovery sparked a murder investigation that remains unsolved. When the original bones were found in April, Wilmington police said, the skeletons were incomplete.

Several months later, DNA testing at the Center for Human Identification at the University of North Texas revealed the bones were those of Jackson-Foy and Angela Nobles Rothen, 42, of New Hanover County.

In September, Jackson-Foy’s sister, Lisa Valentino of New Jersey, went to the site to place flowers and found several additional bones, one of which was an arm bone.

At the time, police said the bones had likely been below ground when they searched the area after the initial find. A detective speculated the bones could have been brought to the surface by storms. They appeared to be components from the skeletons that were originally found.

But to be certain, the bones were sent to the Texas lab, which officials have said has a backlog of missing people they are trying to identify.

The tests took more than six months.

Meanwhile the investigation into who killed the two women has continued. This month, the case was featured on NBC’s “Dateline.” Also, a detective working the case said the investigation continues to turn up new information.

Detectives have asked anyone with information on the case to call the Wilmington Police Department at (910) 343-3600.

David Reynolds: 343-2075
dave.reynolds@starnewsonline.com

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090423/ARTICLES/904239986?Title=DNA-test-confirms-human-remains-those-of-Wilmington-woman

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[nanabillie]

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The man cleared as a person of interest in the murders of Allison Foy and Angela Rothen is once again a suspect.
Wilmington police detectives confirmed today that Tim Iannone is back on their radar.
He was dismissed as a suspect in November after passing a lie detector and searches of his home were inconclusive.
Investigators would not confirm why Iannone is once again a suspect, but said they have new information that points back to him.
“At the time we did everything we could to prove him guilty or prove him innocent and we came up with nothing since that time we have gotten some newer leads that lead us back toward looking at Iannone again,” said Detective Overton of the WPD.
Iannone is currently in jail on an unrelated charge.
Sunday marks one year since the remains of Allison Jackson Foy and Angela Rothen were found in a wooded area off of Carolina Beach Road.

[annalyzer]

Murdered mothers' killer remains a mystery

Published: Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 5:04 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 5:04 p.m.

For almost two years Lisa Valentino traveled from New Jersey to Wilmington to hang missing person posters and make sure no one forgot her sister Allison Jackson-Foy.

On April 26, 2008, her task became horrifyingly simple.

That day, two skeletons, later identified as Valentino’s sister and Angela Nobles Rothen, were found in the woods off Carolina Beach Road in Wilmington.

Since then, the murdered women, both mothers, have been linked. Their photos have been shown repeatedly on local media as well as to a national audience on NBC’s “Dateline.”

Also, since April 26, Valentino says she’s met many of her sister’s friends. They talk about Jackson-Foy’s passion for life and her contagious laugh. Friends of Nobles Rothen remember her as good-hearted and caring – a woman who, despite a troubled life, never talked down about others.

Although the women have not been forgotten, who killed them remains a mystery.

Wilmington police say it isn’t for a lack of effort. At the outset, multiple investigators worked the case full time, said Detective Lee Odham of the Wilmington Police Department.

More recently, law enforcement formed a task force, which gives local detectives support from the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation when needed, Odham said.

The case

After her sister’s disappearance on July 30, 2006, Valentino says, she struggled to convince Wilmington police Jackson-Foy had been abducted. That she wouldn’t have left her children.

She hired Marc Benson, a private investigator, who after tracking down rumors that Jackson-Foy, 34, of Wilmington was living someplace else, later concluded she disappeared from outside the Junction Pub & Billiards on Carolina Beach Road – about three miles south of where her bones were later found.

Angela Nobles Rothen’s family members also said they don’t think they were taken seriously when they first reported her missing to the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office.

Relatives said they last saw Nobles Rothen, 42, after a family gathering when they drove her to her home on Lex Road in New Hanover County on June 10, 2007. They say they reported her missing three weeks later.

The sheriff’s office has said Nobles Rothen wasn’t reported missing until September.

But Valentino says she believes police have been busy since the two women’s skeletons were discovered in the woods behind businesses in the 3500 block of Carolina Beach Road, .

Though it would be months before police learned the victims’ identities, Odham said, investigators got a few early leads from the remains.

They knew the victims were white women. That they were clothed only on their upper bodies suggested a sexually motivated crime, Odham said.

Also, the skeleton later identified as Jackson-Foy had more vegetation around it, indicating it had likely been there longer than Nobles Rothen’s.

Detectives sent the bones to a DNA lab for identification, but they didn’t wait for the results. By comparing records of the region’s missing women to what they knew from the bones, Odham said, police came up with preliminary identifications.

With that, they began looking for a killer, knowing that if the ID’s came back different, their work likely would have been wasted.

“We thought we knew who it was, but we weren’t certain,” Odham said, referring to the identities of the two women. “We were gambling and our gambling has paid off.”

In August, testing confirmed Nobles Rothen was one of those killed. Jackson-Foy was identified in September.

An autopsy showed Jackson-Foy had been stabbed repeatedly. Holes in her shirt indicated she’d been stabbed at least 27 times. Nobles Rothen was beaten. She had skull fractures and her throat was cut.

The challenges

In many cases murders are committed by acquaintances, according Jack Levin, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston and the author of “Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers – Up Close and Personal.”

Usually, Levin said, when police go to a murder scene they find a weapon, a remorseful suspect and possibly even a confession.

But when police find multiple victims, killed at different times, it suggests a different kind of killer, Levin said.

Some experts don’t use the term serial killer until at least three victims have been found, Levin said, but the Wilmington case bears some resemblance. Last year, the FBI changed the official definition of serial murder, by lowering the requirement from three killings to two, according to a report the FBI issued in July.

Serial killers often use knives, or kill by strangulation – methods, which allow the killer to control his or her victim’s suffering, Levin said.

By hiding bodies outside, they delay the start of the homicide investigation and leave police little to go on. No crime scene, no weapon, no hair, and little if any chance of finding DNA, Levin said.

“They’re lucky if they can identify the victim, let alone the killer,” he said. “It’s the greatest challenge to law enforcement: a dump site.”

That Nobles Rothen worked as a prostitute further complicates the investigation. Almost every major U.S. city, Levin said, has multiple, unsolved murders of prostitutes. Finding the killers or even linking the cases is difficult.

In many cases their disappearances aren’t reported, Levin said.

And because prostitutes encounter so many dangerous people, picking the killer from the crowd isn’t easy.

“How do you tell one from another?” Levin said. “The killer looks like the rapist looks like the sadist – they all look a like.”

The investigation

After the bones were found, Detectives Odham and Mike Overton of the Wilmington Police Department worked the killings almost as two separate investigations. Odham chased leads on Nobles Rothen and Overton on Jackson-Foy.

They’d meet at the end of each day, Odham said, and compare notes.

Four months after the discovery, police appeared to be making progress. In June, they searched the home of Tim Iannone, a 47-year-old former taxi cab driver from New Hanover County. Police said in their affidavit requesting the search that several prostitutes had accused Iannone of attacking them.

Only one of the allegations against Iannone had ever led to criminal charges. In that case, Iannone pleaded guilty to a reduced, nonviolent offense and was put on probation.

Also in the affidavit, police said a witness saw a cab driver repeatedly drive behind businesses on Carolina Beach Road near the area where the bones were found.

Wes Harris, 53, a cook at a nearby restaurant, said he went to the police soon after the April 26 discovery and told them about the incident, which occurred more than a year earlier.

Harris said he saw the cabbie drive onto the grassy area behind the businesses and cover all four windows of his vehicle with a green tarp. The man came and left several times through the course of the afternoon and evening, Harris said. At times, he stayed for long periods.

Watching through a hole in the fence, Harris says he got a good look at the man when the cab’s interior light shone on his face.

More than a year later, he spent hours with a sketch artist at WPD and produced a sketch.

In their search warrant, police say the sketch resembles Iannone.

At one point, Harris said, he thought it was an open-and-shut case, and that police even told him he was likely in line for a reward.

But months later, police said Iannone had done everything they had asked and the investigation was going in a different direction.

After seeing Overton interviewed on “Dateline,” Harris said, he wonders whether police believe his story.

“I don’t put a whole lot of credibility in this witness at this point,” Overton told Dateline, referring to the witness who helped police create a sketch.

On “Dateline,” Overton declined to explain the reason why.

Harris said he suspects he lost police’s trust when he told detectives to look for the bodies of additional victims. He made the suggestion after consulting with a friend, who Harris says is clairvoyant and has never been wrong. Harris says the information he gave police about the cab was what he saw and has nothing to do with his clairvoyant friend.

In a recent interview, Odham said he doesn’t doubt Harris’ account.

Another man has also been linked to the area off Carolina Beach Road where the bones were found. Leslie White, a 41-year-old former homeless man, said he slept just strides away from where the bones were later found.

White said he camped near the spot in the summer of 2006 and doesn’t think a body was there at the time. White said he was friends with Nobles Rothen and had no hand in the deaths of either woman.

Police have interviewed White and said they don’t have evidence or reason to believe he was involved in the deaths. He could provide helpful information about Nobles Rothen or the site, they said.

Odham said detectives are looking at several people in connection with the murders and Iannone remains on the list.

The investigation has taken turns and there may be more to come.

Investigators have recently uncovered new information, Odham said, and are pursuing leads old and new.

Police are awaiting test results from the SBI’s crime lab. The tests are of items taken from the site where the bones were found which could have DNA on them, Odham said.

In addition, DNA testing recently found that additional bones found at the site in September, months after the initial discovery, are those of Jackson-Foy.

Despite the work that’s been done, Odham said detectives still want to hear from anyone they haven’t yet talked to who knows about the case or its victims.

“It might be the smallest piece of information that fills in a large gap,” he said. “Whether it’s congruent with what we have or sends us to another direction – we need to know it.”

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