[1] After moving from Princeton, North Carolina to Richmond with her boyfriend,[2] Toler fell out of communication with her family.

[7] In late July 2012, the unidentified woman was positively identified as Angela Faye Toler.

[3] Sherrod has said that part of the reason for Toler moving to a bigger city may have been a goal to find work as a model.

[11] 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.

[3] One night in November 1992[5] approximately a month after Toler's move to Richmond,[1] she called Sherrod at her workplace three separate times.

[4] In November 1992,[7] after Toler's boyfriend had returned to Princeton,[12] a woman's body was found in Richmond near railroad tracks off Deepwater Terminal Road.

[1] In 2011, Nona Best, a cousin of Toler,[5] was director of the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons (NCCMP).

North Carolina's NCCMP works with missing adults as well as children, which is not universal in American states.

[7] During a presentation by a coroner from Maryland, a picture was shown of the unidentified woman found in Richmond in 1992.

[5] After returning home to Raleigh, North Carolina, Best contacted Toler's family as well as Lara Frame, who worked in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Virginia.

[7] DNA samples were collected via swabbing[9] from Sherrod and Angela's sister, Cora Prince,[13] and sent to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for comparison.

[9] 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 30 days unsolved.