Tom Dula (Dooley) was tried and hung in Statesville, N.C., about 5 miles north of me, but his crime was committed in Wilkes County, N.C.
Back in 1975, 2 girls were abducted after leaving the county fair. Both Raped and shot multiple times. One was killed, one survived. Despite a description of both the vehicle and person (black male, suprised?), to this day, law enforcement has made no arrests or persons of interest have been identified.
A bit later, a body, black male, was found on the side of a remote dirt road, wrapped in a piece of carpet. He had been shot several times, and burnt. The basic physical description matched the perp in the above mentioned rapes and murder, but, being burnt beyond recognition, could not be tied to the crimes. All this took place years before DNA evidence was even a thing. No one was ever arrested or ID'ed for this killing either, but word was that the murdered girls father had ties to a rather notorious motorcycle gang, and that justice had been served.
Just a few years back, a local guy picked up a hooker at a truck stop about 2 miles down the road, took her back to his apartment, killed her and then took the body to his girlfriends house, burned it and buried what was left in the backyard. Don't recall his name, but this one made one of the crime shows on TV.
