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The Unsolved Homicide of Barbara Jean Anderson

Barbara Jean Anderson was 37 years old at the time of her death. She was found murdered on June 12, 1997, in a wooded area off of River Road in Wilmington, North Carolina.

According to a WECT Channel 6 news article on March 25, 2014, “Anderson’s killer used a hanger to strangle the life out of her and left her with a laundry bag over her head and her body wrapped in bed sheets. A fisherman later found her body.”

No one has ever been charged with her murder, and the case remains cold, almost 30 years later.

Someone knows something.

If you have any information that could help investigators, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-531-9845.