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The Colonial Parkway murders were the serial murders of at least ten people in the U.S. state of Virginia between 1986 and 1989. [1] The killings were associated with the Colonial Parkway, a 22-mile long thoroughfare that cuts through the Colonial National Historical Park and connects Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown.
The DNA of a smalltime fisherman has linked him to three cold-case murders that occurred in Virginia in the 1980s. The suspect, Alan Wilmer Sr., died in December 2017 at the age of 63.
Several weeks before his execution, James Briley married a writer who believed his claims of innocence, Evangeline Grant Redding, on March 28, 1985, in a prison ceremony attended by his father, James Sr. [13] [14] The brothers were executed in the electric chair at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond; Linwood on October 12, 1984, and J ...
This is a list of people executed in Virginia after 1976. The Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia, issued in 1976, allowed for the reinstitution of the death penalty in the United States. Capital punishment in Virginia was abolished by the Virginia General Assembly in 2021. [1] [2]
A smalltime fisherman who died in 2017 has been linked to three cold-case homicides in Virginia from the 1980s, including two that were among a series of unsolved slayings of couples known as the ...
After a detective re-opened the 1998 cold-case murder of Andrea Cincotta in Virginia, she accused Cincotta’s former fiancée of hiring someone to kill her, a new federal lawsuit says ...
On December 23, 2024, three years after Johnson was put to death, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 out of the 40 inmates on federal death row. [52] [53] James H. Roane Jr. and Richard Tipton, Johnson's accomplices who were condemned to federal death row, were among the 37 prisoners to be pardoned, and they would ...
A company employee infamously filmed himself executing a Virginia reporter and her cameraman live on air as they conducted an interview in August 2015 -- murders that sent chills throughout the ...