32 Degrees

In a stunning development, CBS 17 has learned the rape kits of three women found dead in Lumberton sat untested in the police department for a year and eight months.

Three sexual assault kits collected sit untested for more than a year. North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein discusses the process and the need for new laws.

32 Degrees looks into the death and disappearance of Lauren Holmes in Lumberton. Holmes was found dead in a swamp after she went missing.

Megan Oxendine's body was found under brush and roof shingles. Here is the 911 call that was made when her body was discovered.

Three women are dead, two others vanished. All five were known in the same neighborhood. But, are they all connected? A criminal profiler looks at the cases and shares his thoughts on what's going on in Lumberton, NC.

Three women were already dead. Then, two other women vanished. All five were known in the same neighborhood. But, are they all connected?

Megan Oxendine was found dead very close to where Rhonda Jones and Kristin Bennett were found - and her death occurred soon after giving an interview to a local TV station regarding the deaths of her friends, Rhonda and Kristin.

Three women turned up dead in Lumberton, North Carolina, late in the summer of 2017.

All three were found naked and decomposed.

One was found in a television cabinet, another upside down in a trashcan, and the third under some brush and shingles.

Then two more women vanished. All five were in the same neighborhood.

No one has been arrested.