Route 29 Stalker

[tosh]

May 3, 2022 22:32:30 GMT vrextar said:

Sept 12, 2021 18:36:56 GMT tosh said:

I was just looking at a map and noticed that the distance between where Sheryl Warner’s house was and where Alicia’s car was found on Route 29 South is only 50 yards.

I’ve attached a link to an article from The Hook about Sheryl’s murder. 

www.readthehook.com/65792/brutal-crime-culpeper-authorities-seek-publics-assistance

I looked it up on Google Maps and it looks like it's about 20 minutes drive time from her house to the approximate area where Alicia was found in Lignum. Of note there are several wooded areas between Ms. Warner's house and the Lignum location. Makes you wonder why that specific area was chosen? Maybe the killer was from Lignum/nearby or worked in that area or nearby and thus felt comfortable there?

Also, Alicia's disappearance was in the late morning hours, correct? Shouldn't someone have seen/heard something amiss? Though perhaps the R29S didn't actually physically attack her until they were in the Lignum area?

Did you see how close the house is to where the vehicle was found? That really surprised me to see how close they were.
I think the perpetrator was probably extremely charming and lulled his victims into a false sense of security for quite a while even after they got inside his vehicle. Alicia was stopped between 10-11am and witnesses from nearby houses said it looked like she was being helped. There was a pair of black gloves and cigarette butts by the vehicle which suggest they were stopped at the vehicle a while. If they belonged to the killer he must have been a heavy smoker. It breaks my heart to think that someone was so cunning to do all this in plain sight, you wouldn’t think twice if you saw a man looking under the hood of a car in broad daylight by the side of the road, most would think it was a Good Samaritan.
Her credit card was found on Clay Street in Culpeper, she may have thrown it out the window herself as she knew something was up by that point and was trying to leave a trail.
Looking at a map of the stops they seem to be concentrated either side of Culpeper. I think Route 3 could be significant, he used Route 3 to travel up to Culpeper and then on to Rt 29. Lignum is off Route 3. Maybe he came from the Fredericksburg area.
I’ll need to go back and look at all the locations better but I also remember noticing that some of the 1996/97 victims had been left not that far away from large nurseries, Dominion Growers was one of them.
There was also an assisted living home close to where Alicia was found while Ann McDaniel lived in an assisted living home.

[vrextar]

May 4, 2022 6:15:04 GMT tosh said:

May 3, 2022 22:32:30 GMT vrextar said:

I looked it up on Google Maps and it looks like it's about 20 minutes drive time from her house to the approximate area where Alicia was found in Lignum. Of note there are several wooded areas between Ms. Warner's house and the Lignum location. Makes you wonder why that specific area was chosen? Maybe the killer was from Lignum/nearby or worked in that area or nearby and thus felt comfortable there?

Also, Alicia's disappearance was in the late morning hours, correct? Shouldn't someone have seen/heard something amiss? Though perhaps the R29S didn't actually physically attack her until they were in the Lignum area?

Did you see how close the house is to where the vehicle was found? That really surprised me to see how close they were.
I think the perpetrator was probably extremely charming and lulled his victims into a false sense of security for quite a while even after they got inside his vehicle. Alicia was stopped between 10-11am and witnesses from nearby houses said it looked like she was being helped. There was a pair of black gloves and cigarette butts by the vehicle which suggest they were stopped at the vehicle a while. If they belonged to the killer he must have been a heavy smoker. It breaks my heart to think that someone was so cunning to do all this in plain sight, you wouldn’t think twice if you saw a man looking under the hood of a car in broad daylight by the side of the road, most would think it was a Good Samaritan.
Her credit card was found on Clay Street in Culpeper, she may have thrown it out the window herself as she knew something was up by that point and was trying to leave a trail.
Looking at a map of the stops they seem to be concentrated either side of Culpeper. I think Route 3 could be significant, he used Route 3 to travel up to Culpeper and then on to Rt 29. Lignum is off Route 3. Maybe he came from the Fredericksburg area.
I’ll need to go back and look at all the locations better but I also remember noticing that some of the 1996/97 victims had been left not that far away from large nurseries, Dominion Growers was one of them.
There was also an assisted living home close to where Alicia was found while Ann McDaniel lived in an assisted living home.

I've haven't seen that no, did you have a link for that?

That makes sense, yeah. Supposedly this person (or persons) pulled this routine with several other women around the same time frame, like they were "practicing" for lack of a better word. Trying to figure out how do what they had set out to do.

Yeah Route 3 looks to be the main road to Lignum from Route 29. 29 turns into 15 which 3 intersects with and 3 goes on to Fredericksburg like you said. Makes me wonder if this was attempted on Route 3 or Route 15 as well, or just 29?

Sadly I think unless they re-offend or confess, this will probably never be solved.

[tosh]

Vrextar- The yellow spot marks the house and red spot marks the vehicle - sorry it’s a bit rudimentary.



There were 23 stops in 46 days, I don’t have precise locations for all the stops though I know that Carmelita Shomo was actually stopped on Route 234, Manassas by Dumfries Road.

The moniker “Rt 29” might be a bit misleading in that respect. 

[vrextar]

May 4, 2022 19:40:54 GMT tosh said:

Vrextar- The yellow spot marks the house and red spot marks the vehicle - sorry it’s a bit rudimentary.

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There were 23 stops in 46 days, I don’t have precise locations for all the stops though I know that Carmelita Shomo was actually stopped on Route 234, Manassas by Dumfries Road.

The moniker “Rt 29” might be a bit misleading in that respect. 

Thanks for that. I saw in the other thread you posted a map with stops/attacks. Do you know if this was every single stop/attack or just select ones?

Also, given how far away Ms. Shomo's attack was, makes me wonder if it's actually related or not. According to Google Maps, it's about a 1 hour drive from Ms. Warner's house to the area where Carmelita was attacked. Not an insurmountable distance of course, but it breaks from the pattern of being clustered in the same general area.

[tosh]

Feb 12, 2020 2:00:46 GMT vrextar said:

So I searched a bit and couldn't find any threads about this case, so here's some info in case you're not familiar with it. If a thread has already been posted, let me know and I can delete this one.

Case Background/Info

So who is/was the Route 29 Stalker? We just don't know yet. I'm sure the family/friends/loved ones of Alicia Showalter Reynolds sure would like to know and see her killer brought to justice. On March 2nd, 1996, Ms. Reynolds was driving to Charlottesville, VA from Baltimore, MD to visit her mother as the two were planning to go shopping. Unfortunately, she never arrived. Her car would be found later that day, hours after she was supposed to arrive on a highway near Culpeper, VA. According to the Unsolved Mysteries Wiki, a napkin was left on her windshield, signifying that she had had car trouble. The car was inspected and there wasn't anything wrong with it that would've necessitated her to pull off the road.

Police set up a road block in the area the next day to try to talk to witnesses who may have seen her or what happened to her. They said she talked to a man with a blue or black pickup truck at the side of the road. Later on, it was discovered that a man had tried to convince around 20 different women to pull over, honking his horn, flashing his lights, and telling them there was something wrong with their vehicle. If they pulled over, he would take them to a nearby pay phone (presumably to call a tow truck, as this was before everyone had cell phones) and that was that. Other times they refused to pull over or ignored him and he was said to get angry about this and leave.

About a week before Alicia disappeared, a woman (I believe her name was Carmelita Shomo) said she was driving home and was approached by a man who said there were problems with her car and he offered her a ride. She said yes and then shortly into the ride, the man attacked her with a screwdriver and attempted to sexually assault her. Fortunately for her sake, she survived the encounter, although she broke her ankle during her escape from the vehicle. It's thought that this man is the same man who killed Alicia.

On May 7th, 1996, Alicia's remains were found in Lignum, VA, a town which had a logging area off State Route 3. Her cause of death was not stated at the time. Police think the man may have also done similar things in other areas. The man was described as being between 35-40 years old (in 1996, so a DOB of 1956-1961) and around 5'10" to 6'0" tall. He was said to have reddish brown hair and a medium build. He had told some of the women that his name was Larry Breeden. Several men with that name were questioned, but they have all been ruled out.

In Alicia's case, the police have fingerprints and hair they think belong to the killer, but there haven't been any matches thus far according to the Unsolved Mysteries Wiki.

Suspects

Darrell David Rice - Rice has never been charged with Alicia's murder or any of the possibly related Route 29 Stalker crimes. However, he is a person of interest. He had been arrested in 1997 for the attempted kidnapping of a woman who was biking around the same time frame in Shenandoah National Park. His father also lived in the area and had a truck similar to what was described by the R29S's victims.

In the case of Ms. Shomo, she identified Rice as her attacker and he received 11 months in jail in a plea deal. He was also a suspect in the murders of Julianne "Julie" Marie Williams and Laura "Lollie" Winans, which occurred just a few weeks after Alicia's remains were discovered. He was thought to have been in Shenandoah National Park around the time of these murders. He was charged with Julie & Lollie's murders in 2002, but the charges were dropped in 2004 due to a lack of evidence. He was released from prison (from his prior attempted kidnapping conviction I assume), in 2011.

Richard Marc Edward Evonitz - Evonitz also was never charged with any of these crimes either, however he committed similar crimes elsewhere (especially in northern central VA). In January 1987 he exposed himself and performed a sexual act in front of a 15-year-old girl in Orange Park, FL. At the time he was serving in the Navy. He was arrested a month later when his ship had returned to port. He pleaded no contest and received a sentence of three years probation. On September 9, 1996, he abducted and murdered 16-year-old Sofia Silva in Spotsylvania County, VA. Her remains were found about a month later in a creek near State Route 3 (Alicia was also found on SR3, though Lignum is in Culpeper County) in King George County. He also abducted and murdered Kristin and Kati Lisk (who were sisters and ages 15 and 12 respectively) near Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA on May 1, 1997. They were found deceased 5 days later in the South Anna River, which was near Old Ridge Road in Hanover County, VA.

On June 24, 2002, Evonitz abducted and raped another 15-year-old girl, Kara Robinson. This occurred in Columbia, SC (he had moved from VA by this point). Given his previous victims, it's likely that he probably would've killed her as well. Fortunately, she was able to escape when he was asleep that night. She identified him as her attacker and subsequently Evonitz fled to Sarasota, FL. Unfortunately he never faced the justice system as he killed himself after police had closed in on him.

My Thoughts

I don't think either of these suspects are the Route 29 Stalker. Why? Well in both of their cases, they don't look very much like the sketch IMO (yes, sketches can be unreliable, but still). Rice kind of does, but he is also an out because of his age. According to stardem.com, Rice is now 39 years old, which places his DOB in 1981. Alicia was killed in 1996, which, if Rice were her killer, he would've been 15-years-old when she was killed. Witnesses and prior victims in the R29S incident seemed to indicate that the R29S was between age 35-40, which Rice was not at that time. Although given his photo and has hairline, it's possible he could've been thought to be older than he actually was (though he probably looked different in 1996 than he does now). I wonder if any of Rice's relatives were questioned?

Evonitz was born in 1963, so he's also outside the age range, but just barely. But I think he should be ruled out in this case because the R29S victims were older and outside his preferred age range and because the MO didn't match. He abducted victims from yards, not tell them they have car problems and offer them a ride. Granted killers can change MOs, but this seems unlikely in this case IMO.

Maps

Map 1

This maps shows an approximate map and time it would take to get from Baltimore, MD to Charlottesville, VA, assuming you take the most direct route.

Blue Star - Baltimore, MD, where Alicia was from

Red Star - Culpeper, VA, a town near Route 29 where her car was found abandoned due to "mechanical problems"

Yellow Star - Charlottesville, VA, the city where she was traveling to to go shopping with her mother

Green Star - Shenandoah National Park, the location of the attempted kidnapping Rice was convicted of and the unsolved 1996 murders of Julianne "Julie" Marie Williams and Laura "Lollie" Winans for which he was charged, but charges were later dropped

Map 2

This one shows a closer look at the relevant areas in Alicia's case. As you can see in this map, if you were taking the most direct route, you would indeed need to travel along Route 29 to get to Charlottesville from Baltimore.

Red Star - Culpeper, VA, a town near Route 29 where her car was found abandoned due to "mechanical problems"

Yellow Star - Charlottesville, VA, the city where she was traveling to to go shopping with her mother

Purple Star - Lignum, VA, a town where Alicia's remains were found in a wooded area about 2 months after her disappearance

Green Star - Shenandoah National Park, the location of the attempted kidnapping Rice was convicted of and the unsolved 1996 murders of Julianne "Julie" Marie Williams and Laura "Lollie" Winans for which he was charged, but charges were later dropped

Personal Notes

A good friend of mine lives near Charlottesville and I have traveled along portions of Route 29 several times over the past 10 or so years. Parts of it are quite lively (near Charlottesville), while other parts are heavily wooded with hilly to mountainous terrain. If you've ever been to Monticello (in Charlottesville, VA), you may have seen signs for Route 29 exits off Interstate 64.

I don't think I've ever been up to the Culpeper area before, so I'm not that familiar with that portion.

Sources

Unsolved Mysteries Wiki - unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Route_29_Stalker, unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Alicia_Showalter_Reynolds, unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Julianne_Marie_Williams_and_Laura_Winans

Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Evonitz & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_persons_cases_along_U.S._Route_29_in_Virginia

stardem.com - www.stardem.com/news/concerns-raised-about-ex-con-living-on-kent-island/article_5f2e2ce6-4b9b-557c-8e12-dbfc8635b218.html

fredericksburg.com - www.fredericksburg.com/local/hypnosis-on-trial-in-route-stalker-case/article_a80eda4a-cff5-53dc-9ff7-fa6de13d393c.html

I think you need to check D. D. Rice’s date of birth. I have him at a totally different age, he was definitely older than 15 in 1996.

[vrextar]

May 5, 2022 6:40:47 GMT tosh said:

Feb 12, 2020 2:00:46 GMT vrextar said:

So I searched a bit and couldn't find any threads about this case, so here's some info in case you're not familiar with it. If a thread has already been posted, let me know and I can delete this one.

Case Background/Info

So who is/was the Route 29 Stalker? We just don't know yet. I'm sure the family/friends/loved ones of Alicia Showalter Reynolds sure would like to know and see her killer brought to justice. On March 2nd, 1996, Ms. Reynolds was driving to Charlottesville, VA from Baltimore, MD to visit her mother as the two were planning to go shopping. Unfortunately, she never arrived. Her car would be found later that day, hours after she was supposed to arrive on a highway near Culpeper, VA. According to the Unsolved Mysteries Wiki, a napkin was left on her windshield, signifying that she had had car trouble. The car was inspected and there wasn't anything wrong with it that would've necessitated her to pull off the road.

Police set up a road block in the area the next day to try to talk to witnesses who may have seen her or what happened to her. They said she talked to a man with a blue or black pickup truck at the side of the road. Later on, it was discovered that a man had tried to convince around 20 different women to pull over, honking his horn, flashing his lights, and telling them there was something wrong with their vehicle. If they pulled over, he would take them to a nearby pay phone (presumably to call a tow truck, as this was before everyone had cell phones) and that was that. Other times they refused to pull over or ignored him and he was said to get angry about this and leave.

About a week before Alicia disappeared, a woman (I believe her name was Carmelita Shomo) said she was driving home and was approached by a man who said there were problems with her car and he offered her a ride. She said yes and then shortly into the ride, the man attacked her with a screwdriver and attempted to sexually assault her. Fortunately for her sake, she survived the encounter, although she broke her ankle during her escape from the vehicle. It's thought that this man is the same man who killed Alicia.

On May 7th, 1996, Alicia's remains were found in Lignum, VA, a town which had a logging area off State Route 3. Her cause of death was not stated at the time. Police think the man may have also done similar things in other areas. The man was described as being between 35-40 years old (in 1996, so a DOB of 1956-1961) and around 5'10" to 6'0" tall. He was said to have reddish brown hair and a medium build. He had told some of the women that his name was Larry Breeden. Several men with that name were questioned, but they have all been ruled out.

In Alicia's case, the police have fingerprints and hair they think belong to the killer, but there haven't been any matches thus far according to the Unsolved Mysteries Wiki.

Suspects

Darrell David Rice - Rice has never been charged with Alicia's murder or any of the possibly related Route 29 Stalker crimes. However, he is a person of interest. He had been arrested in 1997 for the attempted kidnapping of a woman who was biking around the same time frame in Shenandoah National Park. His father also lived in the area and had a truck similar to what was described by the R29S's victims.

In the case of Ms. Shomo, she identified Rice as her attacker and he received 11 months in jail in a plea deal. He was also a suspect in the murders of Julianne "Julie" Marie Williams and Laura "Lollie" Winans, which occurred just a few weeks after Alicia's remains were discovered. He was thought to have been in Shenandoah National Park around the time of these murders. He was charged with Julie & Lollie's murders in 2002, but the charges were dropped in 2004 due to a lack of evidence. He was released from prison (from his prior attempted kidnapping conviction I assume), in 2011.

Richard Marc Edward Evonitz - Evonitz also was never charged with any of these crimes either, however he committed similar crimes elsewhere (especially in northern central VA). In January 1987 he exposed himself and performed a sexual act in front of a 15-year-old girl in Orange Park, FL. At the time he was serving in the Navy. He was arrested a month later when his ship had returned to port. He pleaded no contest and received a sentence of three years probation. On September 9, 1996, he abducted and murdered 16-year-old Sofia Silva in Spotsylvania County, VA. Her remains were found about a month later in a creek near State Route 3 (Alicia was also found on SR3, though Lignum is in Culpeper County) in King George County. He also abducted and murdered Kristin and Kati Lisk (who were sisters and ages 15 and 12 respectively) near Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA on May 1, 1997. They were found deceased 5 days later in the South Anna River, which was near Old Ridge Road in Hanover County, VA.

On June 24, 2002, Evonitz abducted and raped another 15-year-old girl, Kara Robinson. This occurred in Columbia, SC (he had moved from VA by this point). Given his previous victims, it's likely that he probably would've killed her as well. Fortunately, she was able to escape when he was asleep that night. She identified him as her attacker and subsequently Evonitz fled to Sarasota, FL. Unfortunately he never faced the justice system as he killed himself after police had closed in on him.

My Thoughts

I don't think either of these suspects are the Route 29 Stalker. Why? Well in both of their cases, they don't look very much like the sketch IMO (yes, sketches can be unreliable, but still). Rice kind of does, but he is also an out because of his age. According to stardem.com, Rice is now 39 years old, which places his DOB in 1981. Alicia was killed in 1996, which, if Rice were her killer, he would've been 15-years-old when she was killed. Witnesses and prior victims in the R29S incident seemed to indicate that the R29S was between age 35-40, which Rice was not at that time. Although given his photo and has hairline, it's possible he could've been thought to be older than he actually was (though he probably looked different in 1996 than he does now). I wonder if any of Rice's relatives were questioned?

Evonitz was born in 1963, so he's also outside the age range, but just barely. But I think he should be ruled out in this case because the R29S victims were older and outside his preferred age range and because the MO didn't match. He abducted victims from yards, not tell them they have car problems and offer them a ride. Granted killers can change MOs, but this seems unlikely in this case IMO.

Maps

Map 1

This maps shows an approximate map and time it would take to get from Baltimore, MD to Charlottesville, VA, assuming you take the most direct route.

Blue Star - Baltimore, MD, where Alicia was from

Red Star - Culpeper, VA, a town near Route 29 where her car was found abandoned due to "mechanical problems"

Yellow Star - Charlottesville, VA, the city where she was traveling to to go shopping with her mother

Green Star - Shenandoah National Park, the location of the attempted kidnapping Rice was convicted of and the unsolved 1996 murders of Julianne "Julie" Marie Williams and Laura "Lollie" Winans for which he was charged, but charges were later dropped

Map 2

This one shows a closer look at the relevant areas in Alicia's case. As you can see in this map, if you were taking the most direct route, you would indeed need to travel along Route 29 to get to Charlottesville from Baltimore.

Red Star - Culpeper, VA, a town near Route 29 where her car was found abandoned due to "mechanical problems"

Yellow Star - Charlottesville, VA, the city where she was traveling to to go shopping with her mother

Purple Star - Lignum, VA, a town where Alicia's remains were found in a wooded area about 2 months after her disappearance

Green Star - Shenandoah National Park, the location of the attempted kidnapping Rice was convicted of and the unsolved 1996 murders of Julianne "Julie" Marie Williams and Laura "Lollie" Winans for which he was charged, but charges were later dropped

Personal Notes

A good friend of mine lives near Charlottesville and I have traveled along portions of Route 29 several times over the past 10 or so years. Parts of it are quite lively (near Charlottesville), while other parts are heavily wooded with hilly to mountainous terrain. If you've ever been to Monticello (in Charlottesville, VA), you may have seen signs for Route 29 exits off Interstate 64.

I don't think I've ever been up to the Culpeper area before, so I'm not that familiar with that portion.

Sources

Unsolved Mysteries Wiki - unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Route_29_Stalker, unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Alicia_Showalter_Reynolds, unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Julianne_Marie_Williams_and_Laura_Winans

Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Evonitz & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_persons_cases_along_U.S._Route_29_in_Virginia

stardem.com - www.stardem.com/news/concerns-raised-about-ex-con-living-on-kent-island/article_5f2e2ce6-4b9b-557c-8e12-dbfc8635b218.html

fredericksburg.com - www.fredericksburg.com/local/hypnosis-on-trial-in-route-stalker-case/article_a80eda4a-cff5-53dc-9ff7-fa6de13d393c.html

I think you need to check D. D. Rice’s date of birth. I have him at a totally different age, he was definitely older than 15 in 1996.

Hmm, I think I messed that up because I saw 39 and didn't see the article date on stardem.com (which was 2007) and assumed it was written in 2020. Whoops. I've fixed that now and added a little more info. Thanks.

[tosh]

May 4, 2022 21:27:06 GMT vrextar said:

May 4, 2022 19:40:54 GMT tosh said:

Vrextar- The yellow spot marks the house and red spot marks the vehicle - sorry it’s a bit rudimentary.

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There were 23 stops in 46 days, I don’t have precise locations for all the stops though I know that Carmelita Shomo was actually stopped on Route 234, Manassas by Dumfries Road.

The moniker “Rt 29” might be a bit misleading in that respect. 

Thanks for that. I saw in the other thread you posted a map with stops/attacks. Do you know if this was every single stop/attack or just select ones?

Also, given how far away Ms. Shomo's attack was, makes me wonder if it's actually related or not. According to Google Maps, it's about a 1 hour drive from Ms. Warner's house to the area where Carmelita was attacked. Not an insurmountable distance of course, but it breaks from the pattern of being clustered in the same general area.

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Vrextar, I've come across this one which isn't listed in that report. The incident took place on Tuesday night, 11th June, 1996, on route 3 which runs between Culpeper and Fredericksburg. Route 3 - Lignum where Alicia Showalter Reynolds, Ann McDaniels and Thelma Scroggins were found is off Route 3 and Sophia Silva was found in a creek off Route 3 in King George County. Fredericksburg almost looks like the midway point between Lignum and King George County.

The Daily News Leader, 15th June, 1996

"The woman told deputies she was approaching a stop sign on Old Orange Plank Road at Virginia 3 near the Wilderness area just before midnight when she noticed a small pickup truck parked on the right side of the road, Ms. Sullins said. When she brought her car to a stop, a man ran up to the driver's side door, tapped on the window and tried to open the door, which was locked. The woman then drove away, and the man pursued her in his truck. She did not get a license plate number, Ms. Sullins said. She was able to elude him, and at 12:15 a.m., saw a county sheriffs deputy and reported the encounter to him. The woman described the man as white, between 5-foot-10 and 6-foot tall, with a beard. She said his truck was a small, dark-colored pickup with stripes on the side."

[vrextar]

Jun 14, 2022 8:46:54 GMT tosh said:

May 4, 2022 21:27:06 GMT vrextar said:

Thanks for that. I saw in the other thread you posted a map with stops/attacks. Do you know if this was every single stop/attack or just select ones?

Also, given how far away Ms. Shomo's attack was, makes me wonder if it's actually related or not. According to Google Maps, it's about a 1 hour drive from Ms. Warner's house to the area where Carmelita was attacked. Not an insurmountable distance of course, but it breaks from the pattern of being clustered in the same general area.

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Vrextar, I've come across this one which isn't listed in that report. The incident took place on Tuesday night, 11th June, 1996, on route 3 which runs between Culpeper and Fredericksburg. Route 3 - Lignum where Alicia Showalter Reynolds, Ann McDaniels and Thelma Scroggins were found is off Route 3 and Sophia Silva was found in a creek off Route 3 in King George County. Fredericksburg almost looks like the midway point between Lignum and King George County.

The Daily News Leader, 15th June, 1996

"The woman told deputies she was approaching a stop sign on Old Orange Plank Road at Virginia 3 near the Wilderness area just before midnight when she noticed a small pickup truck parked on the right side of the road, Ms. Sullins said. When she brought her car to a stop, a man ran up to the driver's side door, tapped on the window and tried to open the door, which was locked. The woman then drove away, and the man pursued her in his truck. She did not get a license plate number, Ms. Sullins said. She was able to elude him, and at 12:15 a.m., saw a county sheriffs deputy and reported the encounter to him. The woman described the man as white, between 5-foot-10 and 6-foot tall, with a beard. She said his truck was a small, dark-colored pickup with stripes on the side."

Interesting. Thanks for the additional info. The description of the vehicle does sound consistent with other reports from others who were approached/stopped by R29S.

[tosh]

Attaching composites of Rt 29 Stalker taken from The Free-Lance Star, November 18th, 2007. 
There are a couple I had never seen before such as the guy with the beard and the guy in the baseball hat. I can see similarities in the bottom three composites but not the top row. 
The bearded guy fits with the incident described in my last post above.

[vrextar]

Jul 19, 2022 18:33:47 GMT tosh said:

Attaching composites of Rt 29 Stalker taken from The Free-Lance Star, November 18th, 2007. 
There are a couple I had never seen before such as the guy with the beard and the guy in the baseball hat. I can see similarities in the bottom three composites but not the top row. 
The bearded guy fits with the incident described in my last post above.
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I hadn't seen the top left & top right sketches. Interesting.

[billthom56]

Friday, 9/2/22, Kristin Dilley and Bill Thomas both received an identical anonymous letter with information and a tip pertaining to a case we have previously covered in the Mind Over Murder podcast (NOT the Colonial Parkway Murders!)

It involves the Route 29 Stalker case.

We are asking the person who sent the anonymous letter to please reach out to us so that we can follow up with additional questions.

Please send us an email at [e-mail]. We would very much like to speak with you!

Thanks.



Bill Thomas

[tosh]

Jun 14, 2022 8:46:54 GMT tosh said:

May 4, 2022 21:27:06 GMT vrextar said:

Thanks for that. I saw in the other thread you posted a map with stops/attacks. Do you know if this was every single stop/attack or just select ones?

Also, given how far away Ms. Shomo's attack was, makes me wonder if it's actually related or not. According to Google Maps, it's about a 1 hour drive from Ms. Warner's house to the area where Carmelita was attacked. Not an insurmountable distance of course, but it breaks from the pattern of being clustered in the same general area.

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Vrextar, I've come across this one which isn't listed in that report. The incident took place on Tuesday night, 11th June, 1996, on route 3 which runs between Culpeper and Fredericksburg. Route 3 - Lignum where Alicia Showalter Reynolds, Ann McDaniels and Thelma Scroggins were found is off Route 3 and Sophia Silva was found in a creek off Route 3 in King George County. Fredericksburg almost looks like the midway point between Lignum and King George County.

The Daily News Leader, 15th June, 1996

"The woman told deputies she was approaching a stop sign on Old Orange Plank Road at Virginia 3 near the Wilderness area just before midnight when she noticed a small pickup truck parked on the right side of the road, Ms. Sullins said. When she brought her car to a stop, a man ran up to the driver's side door, tapped on the window and tried to open the door, which was locked. The woman then drove away, and the man pursued her in his truck. She did not get a license plate number, Ms. Sullins said. She was able to elude him, and at 12:15 a.m., saw a county sheriffs deputy and reported the encounter to him. The woman described the man as white, between 5-foot-10 and 6-foot tall, with a beard. She said his truck was a small, dark-colored pickup with stripes on the side."

Route 3 again - just found out that Thelma Scroggins's truck was found on State 205 in King George County which is off route 3. Fredericksburg is right bang in the middle between Culpeper and King George County. Possible the Route 29 stalker lived in the Fredericksburg area?

Richmond Times-Dispatch

20 Jul 1996, Sat
Two report seeing truck stolen from slaying victim - Fredericksburg

Two people have reported seeing a pickup truck that was stolen from a Culpeper County woman who was slain last weekend in her home A motorist reported seeing 74-year-old Thelma Scroggins' green Ford Ranger on state Route 205 in King George County Lt David Carter of the Culpeper Sheriffs Office said the witness described the driver as a dark-skinned white man in his late teens or early 20s wearing a white baseball cap Carter would not release details of the other sighting but said both descriptions matched that of the stolen vehicle which had a personalized license plate CT67. The truck has a dark green top and beige body and had a removable green camper shell when last seen.

[mustangman]

Sept 5, 2022 15:37:44 GMT billthom56 said:

Friday, 9/2/22, Kristin Dilley and Bill Thomas both received an identical anonymous letter with information and a tip pertaining to a case we have previously covered in the Mind Over Murder podcast (NOT the Colonial Parkway Murders!)

It involves the Route 29 Stalker case.

We are asking the person who sent the anonymous letter to please reach out to us so that we can follow up with additional questions.

Please send us an email at [e-mail]. We would very much like to speak with you!

Thanks.



Bill Thomas

Bill, Have you heard back from the person who sent the anonymous letter?  

[Jay7777]

Maybe time for some DNA work to be done on that hair sample.

[vrextar]

Dec 30, 2022 19:01:04 GMT Jay7777 said:

Maybe time for some DNA work to be done on that hair sample.

Right? And maybe get Parabon or Othram or someone like that on it too.