Found Deceased NC - Megan Oxendine, 28, Christina Bennett, 32, and Rhonda Jones, 36, Lumberton, Apr/Jun 2017

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The FBI and the Lumberton Police Department are seeking information from the public in three death investigations. The bodies of the three women were found within a four-block radius along East 5th and East 9th Streets in Lumberton, North Carolina between April 18, 2017 and June 3, 2017. In January 2018, the FBI announced a reward of up to $30,000 for information that helps investigators determine the circumstances that led to the deaths of Christina Bennett, Rhonda Jones, and Megan Oxendine.

• Christina Bennett, known to her family as Kristin, was found deceased inside a house on Peachtree Street, Lumberton, North Carolina, on April 18, 2017;
• Rhonda Jones was found deceased outside a house on East 5th Street in Lumberton, North Carolina, on the same day, April 18, 2017; and
• Megan Oxendine was found deceased outside a house on East 8th Street in Lumberton, North Carolina, on June 3, 2017.

The Lumberton Police Department requested assistance from the FBI in June 2017 in the three death investigations. The FBI routinely provides help to local law enforcement partners when the FBI has tools, techniques, or tactics that can benefit their investigations. In March, the FBI conducted a door to door canvas in Lumberton. Agents knocked on approximately 800 doors and conducted 500 interviews over a three day period.

Investigators continue to ask anyone who came into contact with the women to come forward to assist us in creating a timeline of when and where they were last seen alive. A cause of death has not yet been determined for any of the women.

FBI Offers $30,000 Reward for Information Related to Deaths of Three Women — FBI

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FBI offers $30K reward in case of 3 dead in Lumberton
Posted January 17
Updated July 13

Lumberton, N.C. — The FBI on Wednesday announced a reward of up to $30,000 for information that helps to solve the mystery of the deaths last spring of three women in Lumberton.

Lumberton police asked the FBI for help in determining how the three women died.

Police Chief Michael McNeill said there are similarities among the cases. John Strong, special agent in charge for the FBI in North Carolina, said the deaths are suspicious because of how and when the bodies were found.

FBI offers $30K reward in case of 3 dead in Lumberton :: WRAL.com

 

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January 17, 2018 10:49 AM

Updated January 17, 2018 11:25 AM

Lumberton Police Chief Michael McNeill previously said it is unclear whether there is a connection between the deaths. The department asked the FBI to join in the death investigations in June.

“Investigators are asking anyone who came into contact with the women to come forward in order to assist us in creating a timeline of when and where they were last seen alive,” an FBI spokesperson said.

Meanwhile, investigators continue searching for another woman who went missing in the same area a few months later.
Abby Patterson, 20, was last seen getting in a brown Buick outside her family’s Lumberton home on Sept. 5.

Read more here: FBI offering hefty reward for information on 3 women found dead within 4-block radius

Abby's Thread: NC - NC - Abby Patterson, 20, Lumberton, 5 Sept 2017

 

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Autopsy: Lumberton women found dead inside trash can, TV cabinet
Posted August 31

An autopsy report said Jones was found naked and face-down inside a trash can after her foot was spotted under the lid.

The body was decomposed and covered with maggots, and the woman’s skin had begun to fall off, the autopsy said.

The autopsy report said small cuts were found on Jones’ body and her nose had been fractured, but a medical examiner was unable to determine if the injuries occurred before her death or when she was placed in the trash can.

Read more: Autopsy: Lumberton women found dead inside trash can, TV cabinet :: WRAL.com

 

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Autopsy for Meghan Oxendine
The naked body of Oxendine, 28, was found outside an abandoned home, partially concealed by a cedar tree, covered with tree branches and roof shingles. Medical Examiner Jennifer Altman said there was no apparent natural disease or physical injury that caused Oxendine's death.

As with Jones, decay of the remains also made a determination about Oxendine's cause of death difficult.

Toxicology analysis showed trace amounts of:

• caffeine
• nicotine
• cocaine and metabolites
• morphine (potentially reflecting heroin use)

Ethanol was also found but may have been due to decomposition.

The medical examiner could not link any drugs in Oxendine's body to her death.

"While the toxicologic findings indicate the use of illicit drug(s) at some point, no definitive association between such drug use and the decedent's demise can be made with any reasonable degree of certainty," the report read.

The medical examiner said subtle findings indicating a cause of death "may be difficult to clearly discern or reliably exclude with reasonable certainty given the condition of the remains." The examiner specifically mentioned that "putative asphyxial insult" - commonly called suffocation or other loss of oxygen - would be difficult to determine.

"The cause and manner of death are best classified as undetermined," the report read.

More details on the autopsies of the other two women at link: Autopsy: Cause of death undetermined for Lumberton woman

 

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“These girls were humans. They had kids. Everyone had a mother and father,” said Windle Bullard, who owns and operates Lumberton Machine & Welding off East 2nd Street. Bullard said he knew all three women.

On a recent morning, Bullard stood just outside the business and pointed to a photo of Oxendine on an FBI flier. The paper posted near the entrance to his business seeks information about the deaths.

“This girl — Megan — she was as sweet as your daughter,” Bullard said somberly.

How did these 3 Lumberton women die?

 

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Shelia Price is haunted by the fact that she doesn’t know who killed her daughter, Rhonda.

“She was found in a city trash can, upside down, naked,” Price said.

Jones, a 32-year-old mother of five, was found behind a home on 5th Street on April 18, 2017.

“She wasn’t stabbed, she wasn’t shot, she was not beat or strangled,” Price said.

The same day, the body of 32-year-old Bennett was found inside a TV cabinet in an abandoned home on Peachtree Street. Six weeks later, a teenager discovered the body of 28-year-old Oxendine behind a house on 8th Street.

Fifteen-year-old Marcus McCollum lived across the street from where he and a friend found Oxendine’s body. He said they started noticing a foul odor while playing basketball in his yard.

“That’s when I got on my knees and I looked and I had seen like the hip and then my friend didn’t see it, so we walked around the other way and I had to move the bush back and that’s when he had looked and he said, ‘Boy, that’s a body,’” McCollum said.

NC Wanted: Police have few answers in 2017 deaths of three Lumberton women :: WRAL.com

 

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"Not just one, but three girls were found, and we the family want some answers," Rhonda's mother, Shelia Price, told News13. "It's a year later, and we have nothing. We have no cause of death, we have like I said, nothing."

Price said the last time she saw her daughter was Apr. 3 last year.

"Easter Sunday we had done our normal holiday cookout," she said with tears in her eyes. "We kind of felt something was wrong because Rhonda would always show up on holidays."

Price said the death of her daughter was one of the hardest days of her life.

"We got the call she was found in a trashcan, and that's what hurts me as her mom the most," she said. "Her being found in a trashcan. That's something that I don't think I'll ever get over."

Price said she doesn't know what day her daughter died, and feels the family doesn't have closure.

"We want to know what happened, why it happened, and who did it because this person needs to really be off the street because they are dangerous to the whole county," said Price.

FBI, police continue search for answers in deaths of 3 Lumberton women

 

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Family of Rhonda Jones, one of three women found dead in Lumberton, holds 1 year vigil

"She will always be remembered as a very special person to a lot of people," Shelia Price, said about her daughter Jones.

Jones left behind five children and a grandchild.

"She was not just some common drug addict on the street. Rhonda’s got five kids," Shirlyn Whitaker, Jones's sister said.

"Rhonda was loved. She was very intelligent," Price said.

It's been a year since Jones was found dead and Price is still questioning how her daughter died.

"Why would someone throw my child in a trash can," Price said.

Family of Rhonda Jones, one of three women found dead in Lumberton, holds 1 year vigil

 

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Lumberton family thinks loved one was killed because she had information on other deaths

Lumberton, N.C. (WPDE) —

Shelia Oxendine thinks information about the deaths of two Lumberton woman may have cost her daughter her life.

Megan Oxendine, 28, was found dead this past Saturday near an abandoned home on Eighth Street in Lumberton.

It’s the same neighborhood where the bodies of two other women were found on April 18th.

Police haven’t said how those women died or if their deaths are connected.

But Shelia Oxendine said her daughter’s possible knowledge about the other deaths resulted in her death.

"I think Megan knows something, from the way Megan talked. I don't know how much she knew. Whether it was a little something. Who had something to do with it or actually done it,” said Oxendine.

She said a few weeks after the women were found dead, Megan was attacked.

Oxendine added the attacker cut Megan’s hair, but she couldn’t see who it was.

Read more: Lumberton family thinks loved one was killed because she had information on other deaths

 

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June 6, 2017

LUMBERTON — As police try to determine the identity of a third person whose badly decomposed body has been found in a Lumberton neighborhood, one person who lives near where the body was found says there is no mystery.

Marvin Pitt, his brother Ricky and his sister-in-law, Felicia, all saw the body and came to the same conclusion that the victim was a 28-year-old woman they knew. They say they could identify her from the angel wing tattoos on the body’s back and shoulders.

The Robesonian has elected not to publish a name until it is confirmed by police.

“I knew her from the tattoos,” said Marvin Pitt. who lives at 606 E. Eighth St. with his brother’s family. “We were talking about her not being around; it’s been about three weeks, going on four.”

Officers had to cut out a small tree Saturday to get to the body, which was behind an abandoned residence at 608 E. Eighth St. and it roof-high weeds.

“God was working on her. She was getting there. She felt comfortable over here,” Felicia Pitt said. “We saw the tattoos, and she still hasn’t been around. We still haven’t seen her. She’s disappeared for a day or two before, but nothing this long.”

Ricky Pitt remembers the woman handing out clothes and water in the days after Hurricane Matthew struck.

Read more: Residents spooked by latest grisly find | Robesonian

 

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June 7, 2017

LUMBERTON — The woman identified as the person whose badly decomposed body was found Saturday behind a house on East Eighth Street was interviewed by a Raleigh television station the day after two bodies were found April 18 in the same neighborhood.

Megan Ann Oxendine spoke during in the WNCN interview about knowing one of the April victims. She described Rhonda Jones as a “sweet and kind person.” While Jones has not been positively identified at that time as one of the two bodies, it was believed by local residents that she was one of the dead.

“I don’t understand how people could do, somebody’s child murdered,” said Oxendine, who was identified by name in the on-camera interview.

The WNCN video can be viewed at

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Read more: Woman found dead was interviewed by TV station following April 18 discovery of two bodies | Robesonian

 

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3:04 PM PDT, September 4, 2018

The loved ones of three women found dead under mysterious circumstances in a North Carolina city marred with violence had held out hope that the questions they’d struggled with since receiving the devastating news would be answered in their autopsy reports.

How did they die? Did they suffer? How did they wind up naked and alone in places where their loved ones say they’d never willingly go?

“We aren’t getting help,” Shelia Price, the mother of Rhonda Jones, told InsideEdition.com.

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The causes of the three women’s deaths and the details of their autopsy reports remained unknown for more than year, with each passing day its own version of torture for their grieving families and friends.

“It’s not right,” Ciera Oxendine, one of Megan’s sisters, said of the time she and her family have had to wait for results.

But the much-anticipated release of the autopsy and toxicology reports this week offered little in the way of answers, as the cause and manner of all three women’s deaths were officially classified as undetermined.

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Traces of cocaine were found in their systems, but the coroner said drug use could not be ruled as the reason for their deaths. The three bodies were decomposed but in all three cases, the medical examiner noted “the possibility of external factors contributing to the death … cannot be excluded.”

Such external factors included “asphyxial injury,” or any injury caused by tissue oxygen deprivation and can include covering a person’s nose and mouth, or strangulation.

“Yes, they did drugs, but drugs did not kill them,” Price said. “We’ve got three girls who’re otherwise perfectly healthy crawl up in weird, filthy places and die? Someone has killed these girls.”

Read more: Autopsies Hold Few Answers for Loved Ones of Women Found Dead in Lumberton, N.C.

 

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“These girls were humans. They had kids. Everyone had a mother and father,” said Windle Bullard, who owns and operates Lumberton Machine & Welding off East 2nd Street. Bullard said he knew all three women.

On a recent morning, Bullard stood just outside the business and pointed to a photo of Oxendine on an FBI flier. The paper posted near the entrance to his business seeks information about the deaths.

“This girl — Megan — she was as sweet as your daughter,” Bullard said somberly.

How did these 3 Lumberton women die?

This is so disturbing.
The poor families, having no answers.
All found, in relatively close areas, yet still having no arrests.

 

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This case is bizarre. Thank you for posting this up Gardener1850.

Lumberton has really had some strange crimes for a town of 20k.
I'm adding to my pet case. Lumberton seems a town to delve into.

 

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Certainly a resemblance to the young lady kidnapped recently --Hania?

 

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Hania Aguilar: Abducted Teen Remains Missing as SUV Is Discovered in North Carolina Town Marred by Violence

CRIME
12:19 PM PST, November 8, 2018 - CAITLIN NOLAN

Hania is described as a happy girl who loves to cook and laugh. She hopes to one day become a Marine to help people, her mother said.

Hania’s abduction came one day after about 60 people gathered to honor their loved ones who were killed, found dead or went missing from Lumberton and Pembroke, neighboring communities within Robeson County.

“We are in this fight together as a whole county,” Shelia Price told InsideEdition.com.

Price’s daughter, Rhonda Jones, was one of three women who were found dead within a four-block radius between April 18 and June 3, 2017. The bodies of Jones, 36, and Kristin “Christina” Bennett, 32, were found dead 50 yards apart from each other on the same day, while Megan Oxendine, 28, was found about two city blocks away. Her death came several weeks after she had spoken on the news about Jones’ death. The circumstances behind their deaths remain unknown. (Emphasis added).

Mother Pleads for Abducted Teen's Return: 'I Miss Her'

 

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Certainly a resemblance to the young lady kidnapped recently --Hania?

Here's Hania's current thread: AMBER ALERT - NC - Hania Noelia Aguilar, 13, abducted, Lumberton, 5 Nov 2018 #2

 

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