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APR 16, 2021
Murder Victim’s Brother Speaks Out | JoCo Report
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Van grew up outside of Clinton, NC the oldest of three boys. The first word he ever said was ‘tractor’ and running a tractor was one of the things he enjoyed the most.
He attended Midway High and during school volunteered for two years at a local fire department. Working with his hands was important. After graduation in 2004 from Midway High, Van went to work near his home helping a produce farmer. Van loved anything to do with farming and a tractor.
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“He had been staying with one of our cousins. Our cousin’s girlfriend, which also lived there, she worked with my wife and was telling my wife Van hadn’t come home,” KA told Johnston County Report. ...
“The story told to us was he was seen leaving on a white SUV, which is what his previous girlfriend drove. We got sidetracking and thought he went with her. As time went on, we filed a missing person report. We knew something ain’t right.”
“They checked into it and said the while SUV the previous girlfriend had been driving was in the shop at the time he went missing. So we let them investigate – Sampson County law enforcement investigate – for not quite a month, and a cousin of ours reached out to us and told us about David Marshburn and what he does. ... Everything started improving since he has been on it. I can’t really elaborate much further. I do know he was a vital part of getting to the point we’re at right now.”
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“Eric House went to Midway High School with us,” KA said. “I was one grade behind him I believe. Van and I have known him our entire lives. I know he has a daughter and outside of that I don’t know a lot about him.”
KA said Van had worked part-time at a cow, hog and row crop farm owned by Eric’s family. Van went to work full-time at the farm last year.
Authorities aren’t saying how they believe Van Alphin was killed or how Eric House was connected to the murder. KA says there are rumors the death was over a monetary debt but he isn’t sure and detectives aren’t saying. KA says his brother was a non-violent person.
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David Marshburn has helped solve several missing persons cases, including the 2012 disappearance of Kelli Bordeaux, an Army Specialist who disappeared on April 14, 2012 from a Fayetteville nightclub and the February 17, 2018 disappearance of a 5 year-old boy in Wichita, Kansas.
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Marshburn says he believes he knows how Van was killed but isn’t releasing that information to protect the law enforcement investigation. ...
Are there other possible suspects? Marshburn says, “There are potentially other suspects that could have been involved with disposing or helping cover up the crime.”
Marshburn believes Van Alphin was killed within 24 hours of his disappearance.
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Murder Victim’s Brother Speaks Out | JoCo Report
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Van grew up outside of Clinton, NC the oldest of three boys. The first word he ever said was ‘tractor’ and running a tractor was one of the things he enjoyed the most.
He attended Midway High and during school volunteered for two years at a local fire department. Working with his hands was important. After graduation in 2004 from Midway High, Van went to work near his home helping a produce farmer. Van loved anything to do with farming and a tractor.
[...]
“He had been staying with one of our cousins. Our cousin’s girlfriend, which also lived there, she worked with my wife and was telling my wife Van hadn’t come home,” KA told Johnston County Report. ...
“The story told to us was he was seen leaving on a white SUV, which is what his previous girlfriend drove. We got sidetracking and thought he went with her. As time went on, we filed a missing person report. We knew something ain’t right.”
“They checked into it and said the while SUV the previous girlfriend had been driving was in the shop at the time he went missing. So we let them investigate – Sampson County law enforcement investigate – for not quite a month, and a cousin of ours reached out to us and told us about David Marshburn and what he does. ... Everything started improving since he has been on it. I can’t really elaborate much further. I do know he was a vital part of getting to the point we’re at right now.”
[...]
“Eric House went to Midway High School with us,” KA said. “I was one grade behind him I believe. Van and I have known him our entire lives. I know he has a daughter and outside of that I don’t know a lot about him.”
KA said Van had worked part-time at a cow, hog and row crop farm owned by Eric’s family. Van went to work full-time at the farm last year.
Authorities aren’t saying how they believe Van Alphin was killed or how Eric House was connected to the murder. KA says there are rumors the death was over a monetary debt but he isn’t sure and detectives aren’t saying. KA says his brother was a non-violent person.
[...]
David Marshburn has helped solve several missing persons cases, including the 2012 disappearance of Kelli Bordeaux, an Army Specialist who disappeared on April 14, 2012 from a Fayetteville nightclub and the February 17, 2018 disappearance of a 5 year-old boy in Wichita, Kansas.
[...]
Marshburn says he believes he knows how Van was killed but isn’t releasing that information to protect the law enforcement investigation. ...
Are there other possible suspects? Marshburn says, “There are potentially other suspects that could have been involved with disposing or helping cover up the crime.”
Marshburn believes Van Alphin was killed within 24 hours of his disappearance.
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