Anita Jackson Leary, a 39-year-old African American woman from Edenton, North Carolina, was shot twice in the head with a .22 caliber gun and died on August 11, 2004. Investigators later determined her death was a murder. The Chowan County Sheriff’s Office carried out an investigation, gathering evidence and interviewing potential witnesses, and the case drew attention in the local community.

Despite multiple efforts in the years after her death to reopen the investigation and re-examine evidence, no new suspects were identified and the case eventually went cold, leaving family and friends without resolution. Anyone with information about Anita or her death is asked to come forward.