County Commission Orders Lisa Hohman's Mother to Move Daughter's Remains

June 06, 2008

Neighbor says dead teen should be placed where "it was found."

A county board of commissioners in Maxton, North Carolina, has ordered the mother of a murdered teenager to move her daughter's remains because of resident complaints and a county ordinance, which they say stipulates that the current location of the body fails to meet local requirements.

It has been a long and difficult road for Samantha Locklear. On May 28, 2005, her 16-year-old daughter, Lisa Hohman, disappeared after leaving to take a nephew of her mother's fiancé home. The following morning, Samantha filed a missing person report with police. Investigators conducted a search of the area and interviewed Lisa's family members and friends, some of whom suggested that she had made recent comments about running away.

"She was having problems at school, and she didn't want to talk about it, but we had been getting along good," Samantha said in an interview with Crimelibrary.com, adding, "She didn't have a reason to run away."

Unfortunately, the seed was already planted in the minds of investigators, and her case was tagged "endangered runaway." Regardless, Lisa's family continued to search neighboring counties, and they regularly posted missing person flyers in area stores.

And so the case went until January 1, 2008.

"The dogs don't bark unless someone is in my yard," Samantha told Robesonian.com. "My fiancé [Gary Ransom], my brother, and our cousin went out to see who they were barking at. They were walking in the woods when they stumbled across something. They shined the light on it and brushed the leaves off and saw it was a head . . . a skull. They also saw a bra. They came in and called the law. They won't let me out there."

According to Robeson County Sheriff Kenneth Sealey, his department is treating the case as a homicide. An official cause of death remains unclear, and no new details have been released since the discovery.

When the county medical examiner released Lisa's remains, Samantha had her daughter placed in a mausoleum on her property. Not long thereafter, neighbors like Denita Locklear began to complain about the location and demanded the mausoleum be moved, not off the property, but to another location on the property where it would be out of sight from passersby. On Monday, the county commissioners...

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Comments

[Kat]

That's a shame.

I can't believe her neighbors could be so cold-hearted.
Since it's SAMANTHA's property, she should have every right to place her daughters remains on HER property.

I really hope they find out who did this, something about this murder in general seems strange to me.

[Lakrisha]

I think that Lisa should remain were she lies. The family has suffered enough hurt and pain and they don't need to hurt no more. I think she should rest in peace and the neighbors should mind their own business because I know Samantha does. Please just give the child a break and let her soul rest with GOD!!

[Kabespir]

Thank you for the work that you do, David. We at the International Native and Metis Women's Council appreciate your articles for Lisa Hohman as we are updating our database of Missing/Murdered American Indian/Bi-racial women and Children. Also, your pages are linked at "In The Spirit" an MSN My Space for Social Justice for Missing/Murdered Native Women & Children. Also, Ourcyberlodge, a division of the INMWC.
Thank you for caring. We have many more cases of Unsolved "Native Women & Children" in the USA.
Few seem to care or follow these cases. Thank you again.
Kabespir