Angela Toler

Angela "Angie" Faye Toler was a formerly unidentified decedent who disappeared in Richmond, Virginia, in November 1992, and who was unidentified for 20 years. After moving from Princeton, North Carolina, to Richmond with her boyfriend, Toler fell out of communication with her family. Toler's boyfriend soon moved back to Princeton alone, but Toler was not with him, and friends and family of Toler never heard from her again. In 2011, Nona Best, who was a cousin of Toler, was at a National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) academy in Atlanta when a presentation by a Maryland coroner included a picture of an unidentified woman found in Richmond who had died of hypothermia. Best recognized the woman as Angela Toler, and she reached out to Toler's mother and sister as well as Virginia medical examiner Lara Frame to procure DNA samples for comparison. Toler was one of five siblings. Both Sharon and Wilbert died approximately eight years after Angela disappeared. Toler's move to Virginia was not planned very far in advance, and she did not tell friends or family which city she planned to move to, only that it was in Virginia. The plan was for Toler to call her mother to check in upon her arrival, however she did not contact anyone until the night of her disappearance about a month later. a woman's body was found in Richmond near railroad tracks off Deepwater Terminal Road. and sent to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for comparison. On 31 July 2012, Frame reported that the DNA matched. The family was informed by Best and Princeton Police Chief Tyrone Sutton. Several days later, the unidentified woman was publicly identified as Angela Faye Toler.

Two weeks after her identification, a memorial service was held for Toler in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Toler's cremains remained interred in Virginia; however, family members are attempting to get Angela's cremains returned to Princeton for reburial next to her brother and sister.

In 2019, a bill sponsored by North Carolina State Representative Allen McNeill was passed that would require all law enforcement agencies in North Carolina to add all missing persons cases to NamUs after they are unsolved for 30 days, yet there is no penalty for breaking this law. McNeill has stated that he was directly inspired by the story of Best identifying Toler and other similar stories.