Solved cold cases in North Carolina
1 documented case.
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Bobby Joe Durham
Bobby Joe Durham, an 18-year-old Appalachian State University student, was murdered alongside his parents, Bryce Durham, 51, and Virginia Durham, 44, in their Boone, North Carolina home during a snowstorm on February 3, 1972. All three were found bound with their heads submerged in a running bathtub. The triple killing of the prominent local Buick dealer and his family went unsolved for 50 years until, in February 2022, the Watauga County Sheriff's Office announced that four members of a Georgia-based criminal network known as the Dixie Mafia had carried out the murders as a paid contract killing.