Yolanda Rene Lancaster, a 36-year-old African-American woman, was reported missing on February 5, 2009. Her remains were recovered in January 2011 in a wooded area off Seven Bridges Road after hunters found them. Lancaster is one of several women linked to an unidentified serial killer investigators call the Edgecombe County serial killer or The Seven Bridges Killer.

Victims in this series were predominantly African-American women, many with histories of drug addiction or prostitution, and several bodies were found near Seven Bridges Road in Edgecombe and Halifax counties. The suspected offender is believed to have been active between 2005 and 2009 in the Rocky Mount area. Only one man was arrested and convicted in connection with Taraha Nicholson’s murder; Lancaster’s murder remains officially unsolved.

Are there readers who knew Yolanda or who have information about her disappearance or the pattern of victims near Seven Bridges Road?