Roberta Williams was a 40-year-old Black woman from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and a mother of three whose disappearance became part of a troubling series of deaths involving women from the Rocky Mount area. She was last seen by a family member in the spring of 2008; her skeletal remains were discovered by people riding four-wheelers on March 27, 2010, about 20 yards inside a wooded area off Seven Bridges Road between Battleboro and Whitakers. By the time her remains were recovered they were skeletal and an autopsy released later in 2010 concluded the cause of death could not be determined.

Williams shared circumstances with several other victims in the corridor: she had a prior prostitution conviction, and investigators said many of the women found there had histories involving drugs or prostitution. Rocky Mount Police Chief John Manley described authorities as appearing to be confronted with a suspected serial killer. The principal person scrutinized in the larger series was Antwan Maurice Pittman; he was later convicted in an unrelated 2009 killing but was never prosecuted or convicted in Williams’s death. Her family held a remembrance in April 2010, and her case remains unresolved as part of the Seven Bridges Road investigation.

Does anyone have information about Roberta Williams’s final movements or who might have been responsible for her death?