Reward Offered in Cold Case Murder

The state is offering a reward for information about a 1994 murder in Elizabethtown.

Gov. Roy Cooper announced Thursday (today) that the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) will pay up to $25,000 for new information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murder of Martha Maxwell, 51.

On Jan. 20, 1994, Maxwell was found stabbed to death in her home on 806 Blue Street in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr. originally offered a reward in the case on Sept. 12, 1994. The SBI Cold Case Unit reopened the investigation on Jan. 25, 2021.

Anyone having information concerning this case should contact Elizabethtown Police Department at 910.862.3125 or the State Bureau of Investigation at 919.662.4500.

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