Detectives take aim at unsolved homicides

  • By Nathan Hardin
    nhardin@salisburypost.com
  • Sunday, December 2th, 2012
    Rowan County Sheriff Kevin Auten (left) meets with Lt. Chad Moose , the head of the Criminal Investigations Division of the Rowan County Sheriff's Office, to discuss the current eleven unsolved murder cases in Rowan County dating back to 1978. Photo by Jon C. Lakey, Salisbury Post.

    Rowan County Sheriff Kevin Auten (left) meets with Lt. Chad Moose , the head of the Criminal Investigations Division of the Rowan County Sheriff's Office, to discuss the current eleven unsolved murder cases in Rowan County dating back to 1978. Photo by Jon C. Lakey, Salisbury Post.

    Sitting in her livingroom, Andrea Polk pauses as she ponders over the memories of the night she was told that her son, Marlon Ellis had been murdered. As an adult man, he was murdered in February, 2001. photo by Wayne Hinshaw, for the Salisbury Post

    Sitting in her livingroom, Andrea Polk pauses as she ponders over the memories of the night she was told that her son, Marlon Ellis had been murdered. As an adult man, he was murdered in February, 2001. photo by Wayne Hinshaw, for the Salisbury Post