The Cape Fear area is home to more than 80 unsolved murder cases.
While detectives in the tri-county area work tirelessly to solve cold cases, lack of evidence and information are largely the reasons homicides have gone unsolved for years.
These are unsolved cases, and are never really cold
Lt. Israel West with the Brunswick Sheriff s Office Detective Unit said, We don t have a cold case unit, we have an unsolved case unit. Our cases are unsolved until they are solved. We do not use the term cold case.
The Brunswick sheriff s office didn t have an unsolved case unit until 2016.