THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, Raleigh, N.C. Feb. 27, 1971

* Unsolved Murders of Patricia Mann and Jesse McBane
* Duke Forest, Durham, Orange County, North Carolina
* "The Valentine's Day Murders" 

The top of the front page has a three column headline: "Young Couple Said Strangled to Death" with photo. (see images) Nice to have in this Raleigh publication, the home of North Carolina State Univeristy, the school where Jesse McBane was attending at the time.
Complete with all 24 pages, a few binding holes along the spine, otherwise nice.

Background: The February 27, 1971, edition of Raleigh’s The News and Observer serves as a grim historical marker for one of North Carolina’s most notorious cold cases: the "Valentine's Day Murders" of NC State student Jesse McBane and student nurse Patricia Mann. By splashing the three-column headline "Young Couple Said Strangled to Death" across its front page alongside their photographs, this specific publication captured a profound loss for the local university community and permanently shattered the era's sense of small-town safety. The media coverage underscored the sheer brutality of the crime—which involved prolonged, torturous strangulation in Duke Forest—and highlighted a complex, multi-county jurisdictional nightmare that deeply frustrated investigators for decades. Today, this newspaper artifact remains a significant piece of true-crime history, documenting the exact moment a horrific mystery took hold of the Research Triangle—a case that exposed the vulnerabilities of 1970s police cooperation and remains unsolved to this day.