MURDERED: Brittany Locklear
When a little girl goes missing from her bus stop in 1998, it’s just the start of one community’s decades-long search for justice.
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Former Hoke County Sheriff Wayne Byrd’s son, Robin Byrd, was arrested for trying to burn down the house of former Sheriff Davis’ campaign manager.
Please contact the authorities if you have any information about the disappearance of Brittany Locklear:
The Hoke County Sheriff’s Office
Please contact the Hoke County Sheriff’s Office anonymous tip line at 910-878-1279, or the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation at 888-624-7222. Tips can also be submitted online.
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Episode Source Material
- WRAL News (Raleigh, NC): More Than 300 Search for Missing Hoke County Girl.
- Rocky Mount Telegram (Rocky Mount, NC): Mother of 5-year-old girl fears worst after child is abducted by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- Winston-Salem Journal (Winston-Salem, NC): Girl, 5, is taken from bus stop, still missing via Newspapers.com.
- WNCT (Greenville, NC): Cold Case Files: The murder of Brittany Locklear by Mekaela Muck.
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): Rumor mill running on OT in death of girl by Foon Rhee via Newspapers.com.
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): Rumor mill running on OT in death of girl by Foon Rhee via Newspapers.com.
- WRAL News (Raleigh, NC): Brittany Locklear and Cecil Chacon.
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): Searchers find body of kidnapped Hoke girl, 5 by Tonya Jameson via Newspapers.com.
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): Searchers find body of kidnapped Hoke girl, 5 by Tonya Jameson via Newspapers.com.
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): ‘Precious’ girl dead, fear rampant by Foon Rhee via Newspapers.com.
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): ‘Precious’ girl dead, fear rampant by Foon Rhee via Newspapers.com.
- The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC): Five-year-old’s death still haunts family, investigators by Laura Arenschield via Newspapers.com.
- The News-Herald (Morgantown, NC): Five-year-old’s body found in drainage ditch by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- News and Record (Greensboro, NC): No suspect yet in Hoke murder case by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC): Cause of child’s death revealed by Knight Chamberlain via Newspapers.com.
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): Inquiry in child-killing now turns on detectives by Anna Griffin via Newspapers.com.
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): Inquiry in child-killing now turns on detectives by Anna Griffin via Newspapers.com.
- The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC): Dozens of tips, but no suspect in Brittany’s slaying by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC): Dozens of tips, but no suspect in Brittany’s slaying by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- The News Herald (Morganton, NC): Thousands mourn murdered 5-year-old by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC): Suspicious man questioned, released via Newspapers.com.
- The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC): Officials eye crowd at slain girl’s funeral by Estes Thompson via Newspapers.com.
- The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC): Officials eye crowd at slain girl’s funeral by Estes Thompson via Newspapers.com.
- The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC): Few leads in Hoke slaying by Craig Whitlock via Newspapers.com.
- The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC): Brittany’s killer left plenty of DNA behind by Knight Chamberlain via Newspapers.com.
- The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC): Brittany’s killer left plenty of DNA behind by Knight Chamberlain via Newspapers.com.
- The Robesonian (Lumberton, NC): Investigators checking DNA samples in Hoke killing by Associated Press via NewspaperArchive.com.
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): Killer may change looks, habits by Diane Suchetka via Newspapers.com.
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): Killer may change looks, habits by Diane Suchetka via Newspapers.com.
- The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC): Slaying suspect eyed by Knight Chamberlain via Newspapers.com.
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): Police find suspect in death of 5-year-old by Leigh Dyer via Newspapers.com.
- The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC): Lawmen stumped by death of child by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC): Lawmen stumped by death of child by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- The Wilson Daily Times (Wilson, NC): Leads are still being sought by Associated Press via NewspaperArchive.com.
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): SBI seeks tips in abduction, murder of Hoke County girl by Leigh Dyer via Newspapers.com.
- CBS17.com (Raeford, N.C.): Hoke County Sheriff Hubert passes away from surgical procedure, cancer, by Kayla Morton.
- The Robesonian (Lumberton, NC): Suspect ID’d in slaying of 5-year-old via NewspaperArchive.com.
- The Robesonian (Lumberton, NC): Suspect ID’d in slaying of 5-year-old via NewspaperArchive.com.
- The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC): Police hope for break in case by Cindy George via Newspapers.com.
- Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC): Residents still remember unsolved murder case by Michael Futch via Newspapers.com.
- The Fayetteville Observer (Raeford): ‘It hurts’: Hoke County residents still remember the Brittany Locklear murder case by Michael Futch.
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