Christine Mary Boone, 43, was reported missing by her family on January 16, 2007. Her skeletal remains were found March 9, 2010, in a wooded area in Scotland Neck, North Carolina, behind the former residence of Antwan Maurice Pittman. Because of the state of decomposition, the precise cause of death could not be determined.

Boone’s disappearance and death are part of a pattern of missing and murdered African-American women in the Rocky Mount area between 2005 and 2009. Investigators have treated the cases as the work of an unidentified Edgecombe County serial killer; many victims were recovered in rural locations near Seven Bridges Road. Pittman was arrested and convicted in the killing of Taraha Shenice Nicholson, and authorities searched Pittman’s home and ran DNA testing, but he was not charged in Boone’s death and no definitive link was established.

Boone left three children and seven grandchildren. Her family said she was loving and caring but had struggled with drug addiction and related problems. The case remains officially unsolved; anyone with information about Boone or her disappearance is asked to come forward.