N.C. investigators have returned to Carolina Beach to search for the remains of a mother and daughter who disappeared 67 years ago in a case that has long stumped authorities.
The State Bureau of Investigation brought ground-penetrating radar to a home this week to scan a concrete slab for any sign of remains, the Star-News of Wilmington reported.
“Family members of the missing persons came forward with some additional information and asked that the case be reopened,” said SBI spokeswoman Noelle Talley. She said the agency has access to ground-penetrating radar equipment at no cost through the forensic science program at N.C. State University.
Thirty-six-year-old Leila Bryan and her 4-year-old daughter Mary Rachel disappeared May 10, 1941. The case had been initially investigated during that decade but never solved. Carolina Beach Police Chief William Younginer said Bryan's husband, E.C. Bryan, had at one time been a suspect. He said the husband had laid concrete beneath the elevated home and left soon after.
He is now deceased.
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