Wall Photos ‎10/16/2012: I regret to bring the news Debra "Dianne" Sellars missing from Burlington, North Carolina since 4/20/2012 was ▬►LOCATED DECEASED. Article: A memorial service will be held Saturday for a Burlington woman whose skeletal remains were recently found in woods off of Union Ridge Road. The family of Debra “Dianne” Sellars is holding a service at 1 p.m. Saturday at Full Gospel Christian Center at 4618 Creekview Road in McLeansville. Sellars, 43, of Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, had been missing since April 20. Her family reported her missing April 24. After months of searching, someone hunting in the woods off the 4200 block of Union Ridge Road found her remains on Oct. 3. The remains were sent to the state Medical Examiner’s Office in Chapel Hill, and a DNA profile created from samples provided by Sellars’ family enabled authorities to identify Sellars. Police consider Sellars’ death a homicide and are still looking for information in the case. Once Sellars was identified, her remains were sent to N.C. State University to be examined by an anthropologist to try and determine cause of the death. In the meantime, Sellars’ family plans to celebrate her life with a memorial service Saturday. Visitors also are welcome at the home of her mother, Brenda Terrell, at 414 Ross Acre Road in Burlington at other times. On the afternoon Sellars disappeared, she told her son that she was going out and would be back before he needed the 2000 Ford Windstar van they shared. Sellars never returned home. Police have found her van and did collect evidence from it. Last month, a crew from a cable TV program “Find Our Missing” interviewed detectives working the missing person’s case as well as Sellars’ family members for a documentary-drama that will air on TV One in the first quarter of 2013. At the time, the Times-News was told that the show would air even if Sellars was found. Police are still seeking assistance from the public. CrimeStoppers pays up to $2,500 and the governor’s office is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of one or more people responsible for Sellars’ death. Anyone with information about Sellars’ death can contact Burlington Police Department at 336-229-3500 or CrimeStoppers at 336-229-7100.

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Sellars, 43, of Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, had been missing since April 20. Her family reported her missing April 24. After months of searching, someone hunting in the woods off the 4200 block of Union Ridge Road found her remains on Oct. 3.

The remains were sent to the state Medical Examiner’s Office in Chapel Hill, and a DNA profile created from samples provided by Sellars’ family enabled authorities to identify Sellars. Police consider Sellars’ death a homicide and are still looking for information in the case.

Once Sellars was identified, her remains were sent to N.C. State University to be examined by an anthropologist to try and determine cause of the death.

In the meantime, Sellars’ family plans to celebrate her life with a memorial service Saturday. Visitors also are welcome at the home of her mother, Brenda Terrell, at 414 Ross Acre Road in Burlington at other times.

On the afternoon Sellars disappeared, she told her son that she was going out and would be back before he needed the 2000 Ford Windstar van they shared. Sellars never returned home. Police have found her van and did collect evidence from it.

Last month, a crew from a cable TV program “Find Our Missing” interviewed detectives working the missing person’s case as well as Sellars’ family members for a documentary-drama that will air on TV One in the first quarter of 2013. At the time, the Times-News was told that the show would air even if Sellars was found.

Police are still seeking assistance from the public. CrimeStoppers pays up to $2,500 and the governor’s office is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of one or more people responsible for Sellars’ death.

Anyone with information about Sellars’ death can contact Burlington Police Department at 336-229-3500 or CrimeStoppers at 336-229-7100.