Editor’s Note: This post was moved from it’s original post date of February 14, 2008 by readers’ requests.
Alice Burgess
During the last two weeks of this month, television station WRAL will run an NC Wanted program featuring an unsolved Vance County murder.
The program will air on WRAL Fox 50 on February 16, 2008 at 10:30 p.m. and February 23, 2008 at 10:30 p.m. on WRAL.
In November of 1977, Alice Burgess was brutally murdered with a tire iron and stuffed into the trunk of her car.
Although many suspects have been investigated, with one man being brought to trial and acquitted for the crime, the murder still remains unsolved.
Michael Burgess, the son of Alice Burgess who was nine years old when the murder occurred, contacted Home in Henderson and asked us to publicize the airing of the NC Wanted television program. Of course, we agreed in principle to do as he asked, but we warned Burgess that the discussion of the topic could be unsettling or downright mean-spirited.
“I would like for a discuss to ensue,” Burgess wrote back.
Burgess also urged us to mention that a $50,000 reward is still in place for information leading to the arrest and conviction of his mother’s killer[s].
To learn more about this story, please visit the following links:
Alice Burgess: A Family Walks With Ghosts
We join Mr. Burgess in the hope that resolution will come.