The Missing
This is a topic that is very important to me…to a lot of people.
Most recently is the case of Allison Jackson Foy who went missing less than a mile from my front door.
Allison disappeared on July 30th 2006 from the parking lot of Junction Pub & Billiards on Carolina Beach Rd. in Monkey Junction/Wilmington, North Carolina. Sadly, human remains that were found a few months ago were determined through DNA testing to be the remains of Allison earlier this week. Her family has some answers but they still do not know who killed Allison, and why. Police appear to have a local man, a suspect in mind, it is believed that he is under surveillance at this time. He was served with a search warrant and evidence was removed from his apartment at that time, he was arrested earlier this year for raping a prostitute at knifepoint, he plead guilty to a lesser charge and received supervised probation/fines[?] and was allowed to roam free as a predator of women in my community.
It has been learned that this same person took prostitutes to a location on Raleigh Rd in Wilmington, for the purpose of having sex [at knifepoint I gather], this is the same area where two bodies were found at one dump site. Both bodies have now been identified through DNA testing to be Allison Jackson Foy and Angela Rothen. It would be a stretch to assume these two women were NOT killed by the same person.
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The following piece is from my local newspaper, The Star News
Second set of bones identified as Jackson-Foy
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 8:49 p.m.
DNA testing has confirmed that the second woman whose bones were found off Carolina Beach Road is Allison Jackson-Foy, a 34-year-old Wilmington mother of two who disappeared in the summer of 2006.
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- One identification made from human bones found off Carolina Beach Road
- Experts discuss strategy in releasing sketch for bones case
- Police investigating deaths of two women search home, other sites
- Unsolved cases here unaffected by new FBI serial murder definition
- Work to identify human remains continues; report near on one set
- Nearby workers worried as no arrests made in bones case
- Carrboro victim’s friends keep eye on bones case
- Police release sketch of man seen in area where bones were found
- For nine women, more questions than answers
- Unsolved mysteries: 5 women killed, dumped
- Backlog at DNA lab keeps families waiting
- Double murder? Serial killer? Police keep options open
- Family holds out hope that daughter may be found alive
- 2 skeletons found off Carolina Beach Road raise possibility of serial killer
The University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth notified police of the identification on Wednesday, according to a statement from the Wilmington Police Department.
The final autopsy report from the N.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, with cause of death, is still pending.
Jackson-Foy’s family has long suspected she was one of the two women whose skeletal remains were found April 26 in a patch of woods off Carolina Beach Road near the intersection with Raleigh Road.
Still, her older sister Lisa Valentino said Wednesday that knowing for certain is difficult.
“I always remember her contagious laughter and bright smile,” said Valentino, who lives in New Jersey. “She’s one of those people who loved life.”
The identification ends a more than four-months-long step in the investigation into what police have long suspected is a double homicide.
The case
In the wake of the discovery of the bones, authorities confirmed they suspected the remains were those of Jackson-Foy and Angela Nobles Rothen, 42, of New Hanover County – two women who disappeared about a year apart in the summers of 2006 and 2007.
Although the women’s identities were uncertain, police kept investigating and in June they searched the home of a man they suspected was responsible for their deaths.
In the search warrant affidavit, police said the man had been arrested in the summer of 2007 on an allegation of raping a prostitute at knife-point. The man pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and is on probation.
Also in the affidavit, investigators said other prostitutes alleged the man has assaulted them, though he wasn’t charged with those crimes.
Since the man also has not been charged in connection with the deaths of the two women, the Star-News is withholding his name.
Authorities identified Nobles Rothen last month, and her autopsy shows she died from cuts to her neck. She’d also been beaten and had fractures in her skull.
Police have acknowledged the circumstances of the grisly finding in the woods in the 3500 block of Carolina Beach Road point to the possibility of a serial killer, though they say they’re exploring all possibilities. The search warrant affidavit also indicates police suspect the killings are the work of one man.
A continuing struggle
For Jackson-Foy’s family, confirmation that she was murdered ends one process and begins another.
After her sister’s disappearance outside the Junction Pub & Billiards near Monkey Junction on July 30, 2006, Valentino came to Wilmington to look for her. She posted missing-person signs, hired a private investigator and worked with the CUE Center for Missing Persons trying to learn what happened.
Believing all along her sister was a crime victim, Valentino says she was frustrated by what she perceived as a slow response to the disappearance. She attributes that response to a belief by some authorities that maybe Jackson-Foy was alive and just didn’t want to be found.
But everything changed, Valentino said, after the bones were discovered – the case then had the authorities’ full attention.
But as the investigation continued details emerged that Valentino says blemished her sister’s memory.
Court records show police suspect both Nobles Rothen and Jackson-Foy were involved with drugs around the time of her disappearance, and that Rothen had some history of prostitution.
Valentino said she visited with her sister a month before her disappearance and saw no sign she was using drugs.
She said Jackson-Foy was a devoted mother to her two daughters and that she’d coached gymnastics in Wilmington.
Jackson-Foy grew up in Syosset, N.Y., and was the youngest of four children.
Through the disappearance to the April discovery and the uncertainty that followed, Valentino said the ordeal has been hard on everyone in her family.
But she continued to push to learn what happened to her sister and hopefully help ensure a killer is caught.
“If this individual, whoever it may be, is responsible for Angela and is responsible for my sister, what’s to say that he hasn’t done this before,” Valentino said. And “that it’s not going to happen again.”
ENLARGED PHOTO OF POLICE SKETCH
Enlarged sketch of police suspect
