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Remains found along Carolina Beach Road identified as Jackson-Foy
By Jim Ware & Dave Reynolds
Staff Writers
Published: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 6:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 7:20 p.m.
The remains of Allison Jackson-Foy were positively identified as the second set of human bones found in April 26 along Carolina Beach Road, according to a statement today from the Wilmington Police Department.
Jackson-Foy, 34, of Wilmington disappeared in July 30, 2006, after leaving a bar and pool hall along Carolina Beach Road in the Monkey Junction area of New Hanover County, about 3 miles from where her remains were found.
Verification that the bones were those of Jackson-Foy came by phone from the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, said Lucy Crockett, spokeswoman for the police department. Written documentation from the lab will follow at some later time, she said in a statement issued at 6:15 p.m. today.
"Today’s notification pertains only to the identity of the remains. Cause of death will be addressed in a final autopsy report from the N.C. Medical Examiner’s office, still pending at this time," Crockett said.
On Aug. 12, the other set of bones found in the woods was identified as belonging to Angela Nobles Rothen, 42, of New Hanover County, who went missing in June 2007, almost a year after Jackson-Foy disappeared.
The fact that the two women disappeared at different times, but their bodies were dumped within feet of each other, led one police department detective to acknowledge the possibility the women were the victims of a serial killer. One expert on serial killers said dumping of two bodies in the same spot suggests the possibility of an organized and prolific killer.
An autopsy report from the N.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, obtained this week by the Star-News, showed Nobles Rothen had broken bones in her head and face, and probably died when her neck was cut.
The fact that Nobles Rothen’s attacker used a knife appears to support one theory of investigators – that the two women were killed by a man who has been charged with wielding a knife and assaulting other women in the past.
A search warrant filed in the case showed investigators suspected the second woman was Jackson-Foy.
The murder investigation started April 26 when a passer-by found two sets of bones in a patch of woods off the 3500 block of Carolina Beach Road.
Early on, police suspected the bones were those of Nobles Rothen and Jackson-Foy.
In June, Wilmington police searched a man's home and car in the Monkey Junction area and seized jewelry, mattress clippings, a bed sheet and other items, according to a search warrant.
Police haven't said whether the search advanced their investigation, but in an affidavit requesting the search authorities allege the man has committed numerous crimes against prostitutes. Nobles Rothen and Jackson-Foy used illegal drugs and Nobles Rothen had a history of prostitution, according to the affidavit.
In August 2007, two months after Nobles Rothen disappeared, the man was arrested on an allegation of raping a prostitute at knife-point, according to the affidavit. The alleged offense occurred on Raleigh Road, within a block of where the bones were later recovered.
Court records show the man pleaded guilty to a reduced charge and is on supervised probation.
The investigator also alleges in the affidavit that two other prostitutes have accused the man of crimes. One said he attacked her in her home, tied her up, and repeatedly beat and raped her. Another prostitute alleged the man attacked her and she fended him off with a knife.
Also, a witness told police he saw a man in the 3500 block of Carolina Beach Road three times. And twice, the man draped a large green tarp over his vehicle's passenger side.
That witness helped police create a sketch, which investigators say resembles the man whose home they searched in June.
Although police name the man in the search warrant affidavit, the Star-News is withholding the name because the warrant contains numerous allegations for which he has not been charged.
Nobles Rothen was last seen alive on June 10, 2007, and was reported missing several months later, in September, according to the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office.
According to the autopsy reports, Nobles Rothen's autopsy was April 29, though DNA testing wouldn't confirm the bones were hers until August.
The medical examiner found cutting wounds to two of Nobles Rothen's vertebra and skull fractures. Cuts to her neck appeared deep enough to hit blood vessels, and probably are the cause of death, according to the report