MUS-2026-0660
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MUS-2026-0660
Homicide
- Incident
- 1998
- Indexed
- Nov 4, 2026, by MuseUnsolved
- Agency
- Hoke County Sheriff's Office
- Location
- Raeford NC
Public record. Index entry.
Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.
Summary
What happened, as the record shows.
Brittany Lynn Locklear, 5, a Lumbee kindergartner, waited at the end of her family's driveway in Raeford, North Carolina, for her school bus on the morning of January 7, 1998. When her mother returned after briefly stepping inside, Brittany was gone, and witnesses described a man in a brown pickup truck. On January 8 her body was found in a roadside drainage ditch roughly three miles from home. A man investigated in 2003 was ruled out by DNA, and in 2015 investigators developed a genetic profile of the perpetrator, still with no match and no arrest.
Timeline
What the record establishes.
- Jan 7, 1998
She is abducted from her driveway bus stop in Raeford.
- Jan 8, 1998
Her body is found in a roadside drainage ditch about three miles from home.
- 2015
Investigators develop a genetic profile of the perpetrator. No match is announced.
Key people
The people in the file.
5, of Raeford, North Carolina. Abducted from her driveway bus stop on January 7, 1998.
Brittany's mother.
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Investigating agency
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