Charles "Chuck" Porter.

MUS-2026-254

Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.

Charles Alvin "Chuck" Porter Jr., 39, a North Carolina Department of Transportation custodian, was called in to work Sunday morning, September 26, 1993, at the I-85 rest stop near mile marker 10 south of Shelby. He was found tied up in the rest-stop utility room with a gunshot wound to the chest. Witnesses reported seeing two young men fleeing in a dark Volkswagen toward I-85 southbound; composite sketches were circulated but produced no viable leads. Robbery is described as the apparent motive, though authorities have not said whether anything was taken. A later Sheriff's Office investigator said there was nothing new in the case and that most leads had been exhausted. No arrests have been made.

1. September 26, 1993

   Porter murdered at the I-85 rest stop in Cleveland County; found bound in the utility room with a gunshot wound to the chest.

2. September 30, 2024

   Crack House Chronicles episode on the case features Porter's sister Crystal Porter; case still unsolved.

3. March 16, 2025

   NextChapterNews reports no arrests have been made and the case remains on the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office Unsolved Homicides list.

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