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Very interesting case. If I read the original article correctly just the medical records were destroyed. The rest of the evidence should still be intact. I could be wrong. That was just my interpretation. Hope they solve this someday.

yes i think the sone in law had something to do with it and i think all the durham family thought so also. no she was not any kin to the yates. ellers, yes alot of the family thought it was over drugs also but not with the idea virginia or bryce was dealing with them. that was alot of the problem between the durhams and troy to the best of my understanding. someone i am sure knows who murdered but has covered their tracks very well. they may never find the ones that did it and i am not sure the law even cares to be honest anymore. its a sad case and it was planned very well. one never knows who all was involved in it. if i read it right the records of the investigation has been distroyed so what does that tell you about how interested they are is solving the murder case. i can tell you this much. bryce and virginia were very hard and honset working people. they hated the way they saw their daughter being under the influience of drugs and what else they thought was going on. they may have had proof of some illegal stuff going on but we will never know now. that is why the durham family and alot others think they were killed.

Countryguy, do you think ginny and her husband had anything to do with the murders? does any one know if the durham mother/wife was any kin to the yates from up in purlear?

A murder in Jacksonville, NC in 1972 was recently solved by "cold case" detectives and killers are in jail. There is always hope to solve a case and bring a killer to justice no matter how old the case is.

I agree, Countryguy. Maybe one of these days Ginny will decide to talk before she meets her maker. If she was not involved, she definitely knows who was. I was reminded of this murder yesterday when reading an update on the murders of a family in Carnation, WA. The daughter and her boyfriend shot and killed her parents in their home on Christmas Eve of 2009. They waited on her brother and his wife and 2 kids to arrive, and then shot them all dead also. Seems the daughter had a beef with her brother and the parents had taken his side. So it does happen, more often then we would like to believe.

i guess this post is like the investigation ended. nothing new has come from it and probably never will unless someone really gets serious about it . i would say the law has all but forgotten about it especially since the records were distroyed . now that was such a smart thing to do or another plan to make sure it was never looked into again. seems like a big CYA.

And again the person doing the killings had some reason for killing the men one way and the woman another way! Where did Debbie Foster come into this and did she live here?

Staley was killed in a car wreck on Hwy. 268 East near Chick Haven Egg Room. He was coming up 268 and it was said he hit the bridge abutment and the car became airborne & hit a high embankment that was just across the bridge on the right(the embankment has long since been removed and dirt sold). In the process of the car being airborne, Staley was thrown out of the car and landed in the highway and was run over by a car traveling East on 268. I know the man who ran over the body. It was told Staley was already dead when he was run over.

Debbie Foster that was killed in 1978, while visiting Troy Hall, Is her death still and open case or was someone charged in the hit and run in Georgia? Was she a girl friend or family?

well heres what i am thinking about stayley. they was grasping for anything they could get to try and show they we working on it and looking into anything they thought might give a clue. stayley it was stated had done some breaking in and stealing but who ever murdered them was there just to murder them and not to steal anything. if so they would not have left the money bag on the table . the house was a mess from trying to make it look like a robery it was stated. they could have been looking for anything written that would prove that troy was dealing drugs. virginia could have left a written statement giving details about all the friction between them and troy. no one knows for sure but i don't think staley would have been going in to kill them all just to pull a robery. staley's girl friend would have known if the wreck was an accident or if he was forced to wreck. evidently she never said a word about it.

Countryguy, Staley's name came into this post when someone referenced a Winston-Salem journal article about state investigators seeking permission to dig up his body to get prints for comparison with some prints taken at the Durham scene. His only apparent connection to the Durham's would have been through Hall, and he was noted as one of several people associated with Hall who met with an timely death. I don't think anyone here is trying to defame Staley, or minimize Hall's role in the murders.Here is a portion of the post that first mentioned Staley:
" Mr. Ed-You're right. A couple of people involved with Troy have died at early ages. One name to consider is Benny Staley. There was a article in the W-S Journal entitled "Worry" Exhumation RequestUpsets Family. Sorry, I have a copy of the article but not the date. The article was written by Vincent Morris and reads "State investigators want to exhume Benny Staley. They want to take fingerprints and palm prints. Sources familiar with the case said that the interest centers on the Durham family murders."

I believe Staley came up because someone mentioned that the knots used were military-style and he had been in some branch of the military (maybe Marines). How do you know he was not involved? (Not trying to be argumentative- just curious- you may have information that I am not aware of about the actual suspects.)

troy hall was a son-in-law not in good standing with the durhams . staley had nothing to do with the murders of these 3. troy knew alot of people i would say and that doesn't mean all of them had anything to do with it. it is believed by the families that troy did have something to do with it. tell us who came up with the true idea that staley had anything to do with it.

This thread is entitled "Who Killed the Durham family?" The names Troy Hall and Bennie Staley have come up in information people have shared about the alleged activities and possible motives of these two people. Discussion of them, their whereabouts, and their relation to other persons in this case is certainly relevant to the original post. They are possible suspects if the allegations about them are factual.

Like I thought, it doesn't pertain to this case.

If you would read the post you would know that Staley had connections to Hall. If you don't want to bother with reading the prior posts, it would be a good idea to refrain from making suggestions until you know what you're talking about.

So tell me how is Staley related to this case? Since you're so smart.

Should we take the discussion of Troy Hall to a different thread also?

Take the Staley incident to a different thread.

His name has come up more than once on this thread. If they had considered exhuming his body, they must have had a reason. It is only natural to be somewhat curious about the time frame.