Family: Missing Rocky Mount woman was friends with women found dead
Yolanda Lancaster, 36, was reported missing on March 30, according to police records. Family said Lancaster knew two of the women who were found dead in Rocky Mount.
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Lancaster, 36, was reported missing on March 30, according to police records. Though she has dropped out of sight for days at a time, Lancaster would always call to check on her two children, Tucker said.
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Lancaster is among several African-American women who were reported missing from Rocky Mount since 2005.
A Tarboro newspaper also reported another missing woman on May 29. Jarniece Lotonya Hargrove, sometimes known as "Sunshine," 31, was last seen May 2 in the northern part of Rocky Mount, walking on U.S. Highway 301, Sheriff Knight told the Daily Southerner.
Other African-American women in the area have been found dead.
Tucker and Reggie Smith, Lancaster’s boyfriend, said she was friends with Melody Wiggins, 29, and Jackie Nikelia Thorpe, 35, who were both found dead.
Tucker is caring for Lancaster's two children, a 10-year-old girl and 9-year-old boy.
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