Erica Parsons’ Biological Mother Speaks Two Years After Her Remains Were Discovered

SALISBURY, N.C. – Next week marks two years since investigators discovered the remains of 13-year-old Erica Parsons. Her adoptive parents are charged with first degree murder in her death.

“Anniversaries are very hard. I try not to, but it’s very hard not to think about them,” says Carolyn Parsons, who is Erica’s biological mother.

She is back in Rowan County this weekend and plans to visit the cemetery where Erica rests.

“I tell myself, that I should be over this by now. I don’t, I don’t have closure, I don’t have anything,” Parsons says.

13-year-old Erica Lyn Parsons disappeared in 2011.

Investigators say she was dead more than a year and a half before she was reported missing in 2013.

Her adoptive parents Casey and Sandy Parsons are accused of killing her.

Two years ago next week, Sandy led investigators to her remains, buried in a shallow grave in Chesterfield, South Carolina.

Carolyn says she’s not sure we will ever figure out why Erica was killed.

“Me and everybody else in the world knows, even on the stand, they are incapable of telling the truth. Nobody’s going to ever know why, not even me,” she says.