Wendell “Wilkie” Oxendine of the Lumbee Tribe, was shot and killed in Maxton, North Carolina on September 28, 1991 during a shoot out between two brothers.

Craig Lee Bullard, 27, a Lumbee man, was shot and killed in Maxton, NC, in July 1999. His case ended in a mistrial after the jury couldn’t reach a verdict.

Margaret Lois Bell was a Lumbee woman who was found murdered in her Robeson County, North Carolina home in 1996. Nearly 30 years later, DNA evidence led to the arrest of a suspect. Kenneth Delton Locklear was charged in 2025 and was taken into custody, but died in jail before his trial, prompting the North Carolina SBI to investigate his death.

Virginia Pictou Noyes, a 26-year-old Indigenous mother of five from the Mi'kmaq Nation, disappeared on April 24, 1993, in Bangor, Maine. She was last seen at Eastern Maine Medical Center after being brought there by police following an alleged assault. Mysteriously, she vanished from the hospital and was never seen again.

Five-year-old Brittany Locklear was abducted while waiting for her school bus in Raeford, North Carolina, on January 7, 1998. Less than a day later, her body was found in a drainage ditch. Over 25 years later, her case remains unsolved, highlighting the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and children (MMIW).