A Killer Returns

In the fall of 1993 a Wilmington, NC woman was beaten in her home. Taken to the hospital, she died. The local police soon arrest a suspect, and the Chief and the DA consider the murder solved. Their suspect languishes in the local lock-up for almost two years, then witnesses recant, and the case is never brought to trial. The murder remains a cold case.

Having bought the deceased woman’s home ten years after the murder, Bobbie and Al Gilbert, in a conversation with a neighbor, learn some of ...