D.P. Black, 91, and his wife Mary Lou Black, 86, were prominent members of Aberdeen, North Carolina, remembered as generous, devoted to Bethesda Presbyterian Church, and close to their extended family. On the evening of July 9, 2021, a deputy conducting a welfare check found D.P. deceased on the front porch and Mary Lou dead inside the home on Roseland Road. Investigators determined D.P. had been killed with a blunt object and Mary Lou had been shot in the master bedroom.

The Moore County Sheriff’s Office treated the deaths as a double homicide and identified robbery as the motive after money, jewelry, a gun, and other personal items were taken from the house. On July 13, 2021, authorities arrested two local men: Tony Chad Patterson, 42, and Tim Cooper, 45, charging each with two counts of murder. Patterson was a former laborer for D.P.; investigators say Cooper waited in a car while Patterson entered the home and committed the killings, then the two used stolen items to buy drugs.

Does anyone in the Aberdeen area have information about the Blacks, their business contacts, or the days leading up to July 9, 2021?