Still cold
A Virginia State Police review of the investigation into a 1967 double murder in Staunton and the role that a Staunton Police Department investigator may have played in helping the perpetrator get away with the murders has yielded nothing new.
“Unfortunately, due to the significant lapse of time since the murders occurred and the fact that numerous individuals involved in the investigation are now deceased, our review was unable to produce any new information capable of resolving any concern about Investigator Bocock’s handling of the investigation,” said Lt. Col. H.C. Davis, the director of the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation, in a statement released by the State Police Tuesday morning. Read more
The March 2009 New Dominion is on the streets
The March 2009 edition of The New Dominion Magazine is on the streets this week.
The cover story is “Black, white and red all over” - a look by ND editor Chris Graham at the hemorrhaging in the news-media and book-publishing industries and what those of us on the inside are doing to try to stanch the bleeding.
Also featured in the magazine …
Staunton police still searching for High’s handgun
They’re still looking for the murder weapon.
The .25-caliber handgun thought to be the weapon used in the 1967 murders of two High’s Ice Cream employees has tested negative, the Staunton Police Department announced in a press release Tuesday morning.
The gun had been handed over to police by News Leader employee Kathy Myers, who said it had been given to her late husband by detective Davie Bocock, who was leading the investigation into the murders of Carolyn Perry, 20, and her sister-in-law, Connie Hevener, 19, the night of April 11, 1967. Read more
More questions than answers in resolution to High’s case
Part I. Answers
Carolyn Perry, 20, and her sister-in-law, Connie Hevener, 19, were doing what they needed to do to close the High’s Ice Cream in Terry Court in Staunton the night of April 11, 1967. They’d had some late customers, including a man later described as “in need of a haircut” and “in bad need of a shave,” and a mystery woman who was apparently at the counter when a coworker not on duty that night entered through a back door ostensibly to tell Hevener that she couldn’t work her shift on Wednesday night. Read more
