Lumberton's Missing And Murdered: Abby Lynn Patterson

Abby Lynn Patterson

"You can drive all night

Looking for the answers in the pouring rain

You wanna find peace of mind

Looking for the answer

If we can find a reason, a reason to change

Looking for the answer

If you can find a reason, a reason to stay

Standing in the pouring rain."

Cage The Elephant-Cigarette Daydreams

She is bubbly and free-spirited. Her thing was always making everybody happy and laughing. She is a light to everyone that knows her.

She was born on February 12th, 1997 to Samantha Lovette. She came from a supportive family and maintained a very close relationship with her mother, even throughout her addiction. She and her mother were known to have talked on the phone as a daily habit.

In September 2017, Abby was visiting her mother in Lumberton, North Carolina after graduating from a drug rehabilitation center for opioid use. Abby was living at a "Sober Living Facility" in Jacksonville FL, where she was supporting herself and was living on her own. Abby had just been accepted to a college where she planned on studying to become a counselor. Her mother has stated "she praised god for her sobriety in her journal everyday."

On the 4th, Abby enjoyed a day at Holden Beach with family.

On Tuesday, September 5th 2017, at 11:38 a.m., Abby told her mother she was going to run some errands. She said don't worry and that she would be back in an hour. When Abby walked out of the house on East 9th Street, little did Samantha know, that would be the last time she'd see her daughter.

Witnesses saw Abby begin to walk down the street towards Inglewood Avenue when she was approached by a brown Buick sedan. She appeared to know the driver and got into the car willingly. After an hour had passed and Abby failed to return, her mother attempted to call her daughter’s cell phone and became concerned when the calls went straight to voice mail. After a long anxious day with no contact from her daughter and Abby failing to return to the house, Samantha reported Abby Lynn Patterson missing at 6:00 p.m. Abby has not been seen or heard from since. Her social media and bank accounts remain untouched.

Police tracked down the brown sedan and the driver. They interviewed him several times. He said that he dropped Abby off somewhere else, but police are not disclosing the location. No charges have been brought.

The FBI and Lumberton Police Department drained and conducted a search of a pond near Alamac Road. It was the second pond drained in 2017 as part of the search for Abby. Both searches came up empty.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Patterson is asked to call the FBI at 704-672-6100 or the Lumberton Police Department at 910-671-3845. There is a $10,000 for information that leads to Abby being found.

At the time of Abby's disappearance she was 5'7" tall, 140 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. She has a dark-colored birthmark on the back of her right thigh and a tattoo of a bird on her shoulder.
She was last seen wearing a white shirt and brown shorts.

In the months prior to Abby's disappearance, three women were found dead under unclear circumstances in Lumberton. Authorities stated there were few similarities between Patterson's case and the other women's deaths, and they don't think her case is related to the others. Nothing can be ruled out though.

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