November 22, 1957 Dublin, Virginia Baby John Does

 On November 22, 1957, the bodies of two infant boys were found in a box recently buried in an unmarked grave near a cemetery in Dublin, Virginia. It is not stated how the boys had died or when they died. It's possible that the two were twins.

The baby John Does were both African American Infants. The boys were 18 inches long and one was 5 lbs and the other was 4 lbs. 

SOURCES:

NamUs Boy 1

NamUs Boy 2

November 8, 1981 Danville, Virginia John Doe

November 8, 1981, the skeletal remains were found scattered in an old dumpsite near Danville, Virginia. It's believed that he had died likely in 1959.

John Doe was a Black male and was between 40 to 60 years old. He was 5'2" to 5'7". He was wearing a large dark-colored cotton T-shirt.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Arlington Park Serial Pooper

Screenshot: WFTX-TV

 

By August 2016  a serial pooper would leave gifts at Ft. Barnard Park playground in Arlington, Virginia at least 4 to 5 times that year. Two of which happened in August. They poop around the play equipment and sometimes cover them with t-shirts so that curious kids or adults would end up picking them up and finding their surprise.  

The serial pooper does it at night. Their poop is left around the play equipment. It's never in off-to-the-side places like bushes or by trees. 

Arlington County Police said they are stepping up patrols at the time in the park in the hopes. They were hoping in catching the serial pooper and charging them with misdemeanor urinating and defecating in public. However, no one was caught as the serial pooper. 

SOURCES:

Barf Blog

ABC 7 Chicago August 21, 2016

UPI August 22, 2016

July 1, 1970 Grottoes, Virginia John Doe

On July 1, 1970, while police were searching for missing vehicles in an abandoned manganese mine in Grottoes, Virginia skeletal remains of a man were found.  It's believed that the man had died between 1957 and 1960. 

John Doe's race is unknown and he was between 35 to 55 years old. He was around 5'7" to 6'2". 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Disappearance of Richard Lee Green

At 6:30 PM on January 24, 1995, 37-year-old Richard Lee Green was scheduled to leave the Hampton Greyhound Bus Station in Hampton, Virginia. He however never picked up the bus ticket.

Richard is a Native American/Alaska Native man and was 37 years old at the time. He's 5'8" and 130 lbs. He has black hair and black eyes. He has Carmelita and Georgia tattoo on his right arm, a cross tattoo on his hand, and #8 tattoo on his back.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Murder of Bandar Alfisal

Around 5 am, on November 2, 1986, people in the room next to Bandar Alfisal's hotel room in Arlington, Virginia heard a struggle. Later that day Bandar was found unconscious on the floor as someone had strangled him. He would die from

SOURCES:

Arlington Virginia

Uncovered

Murder of Charlotte Hall

​​​​​On October 5, 1986, 56-year-old Charlotte Hall was found dead floating in a backyard swimming pool in the 4500 block of Black Cove Rd. in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Police arrived at the home because of a structure fire and found her body. It was found that she had been murdered. 

SOURCES:

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Uncovered

Murder of Pareshkumar D. Patel

Around 6 a.m. on September 16, 2012, Pareshkumar D. Patel, an Indian native, went to the Raceway Gas Station he operated along the 5600 block of Jefferson Davis Highway in Chesterfield, Virginia. When he exited his vehicle two men wearing hoodies would approach him and force him into a van. This would be the last time he was seen alive.

On September 20th Pareshkumar was found at the Ancarrow Boat Landing in Richmond. He had been shot to death.

There is up to a $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrests and conviction in the case.

SOURCES:
FBI

June 27, 1987 Sterling Virginia Sexual Assault of young girl

On June 27, 1987, a 9-year-old unnamed female victim was asleep in the basement of her home at the 200 block of East Poplar Rd. in Sterling, Virginia. An unknown man would abduct the girl from her home and carry her to a nearby area where he would sexually assault her. He would then release the victim.


SOURCES:
Loudoun County, Virginia

Murder of Andre Heckstall

At 5:30 May 9, 2003, 40-year-old Andre Heckstall was in the parking lot in front of the Dollar Tree on 600 block of Newton Rd. in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He was speaking with an unknown black male when he was shot. He would be transported to the hospital where he would pass away. 

SOURCES:

City of Virginia Beach

Project Cold Case

Murder of Russell Grant "Blue" Valentine Jr

On the late night of April 2, 2007 gunshots were heard in the 6000 block of Wesleyan Drive in Virginia Beach, Virginia. 46-year-old Russell Valentine Jr. was found laying in the yard of a residence (not stated if it was his own, but he lived on the same block). Russell had been shot and transported to the hospital where he would soon die after. 

SOURCES:

City of Virginia Beach

Find a Grave

March 1, 1986 Hamilton Virginia Sexual Assualt

On March 1, 1986, an unnamed female was reported to have been abducted and sexually assaulted after hitchhiking in the area of Route 9 and Route 704. Her abductor would drive her to a dead end on 38400 block of Crooked Run Lane (formerly Route 721) in Hamilton Virginia. Her abductor would then sexually assault her and she would eventually escape and run to nearby residents for help.

The suspect is a white male driving a blue passenger vehicle. 

SOURCES:

Loudoun County Virginia

Murder of Lillie May Pickenpack

 On December 21, 1974 police were called to the 100 block of Queen St. in Alexandria, Virginia. They would find 64-year-old Lillie Pickenpack was found suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. She would pass from her injuries.  

SOURCES:

City of Alexandria

Cryptids: Freshwater Octopus

Photo by Isabel Galvez

It is said that a medium sizes cephalopod, an octopus, is sometimes found in rivers of North America. It is said that they are 2 to 3 ft long and there were sighting in several places. Octopuses needing a high saline that would mean if they were actually found in freshwater that they are a miracle mutation or evolution allowed them to.

One sighting was on December 24, 1933, by Robert Trice and R.M. Saunders. They were fishing on the Kanawha River near Charleston, West Virginia when they hauled in a 3 ft. octopus. Recent research by Mark Hall proved that this was indeed a hoax. 

On January 30, 1959 people witnessed a grey octopus was seen surfacing and moved onto the bank of the Licking River near Covington Kentucky. 

On November 19, 1999, a dead octopus was found on the bank of the Ohio River at the Falls of Ohio State Park in Jefferson, Indiana on some fossil beds. It was identified as a Caribbean arm stripe octopus or a bumblebee two-stripe octopus, both Atlantic species.  It was not in a state of decomposition meaning its death was recent. This doesn't mean however that it lived in the waters. It's possible that someone had recently abandoned a pet there and did not realize the octopus would survive or that it is another hoax. 

SOURCES:

It's Something Wiki

Nature World News

Octolab

Murder of Warren Randolph Coleman

 On November 4, 1974, 22-23-year-old, Warren Coleman was last seen leaving Quarrels and Green in Ashland, Virginia. His body would be found on the 10th at the part of the Little River known as "Fanny's Hole". He had been shot to death. 

Warren was known to walk around Ashland and had a noticeable limp.

SOURCES:

Hanover County Sheriff's Department

Find a Grave 

Murder of Tammy Lynn Thorpe

Around 9 p.m. on October 21, 1988, 20-year-old Tammy Thorpe left her home in Ada, Virginia, and attended a dance at the Marshall Ruritan Club. At the dance, a man reportedly threatened Tammy as she did not want to dance with him. At a separate incident at the dance, a man with a gun was arrested in the parking lot.  

When he was arrested the police dented Tammy's car as they forced him against her gold 1986 Pontiac Grand An. Tammy was particular about her car and was concerned about the dent. She would call the sheriff's office to talk about it with the arresting officer. 

The dance would end at 1 a.m. the next morning. Her parents would then see her at 2 a.m. at the Marshall 7-Eleven while coming home that night. Her mother told her to go home as it was late. Instead of going home, it's believed that she drove to the old Chevron gas station in Warrenton to wash her car and see how bad the dent was. She was last seen getting gas there at 2:45 a.m. 

A little before 7 a.m. Lisa, Tammy's sister, noticed Tammy's car parked at the former Warrenton Bowling Alley next to the Chevron. Her sister who left her own car there the night before coincidently had gone there. This was when she found the car unlocked with the keys still in the ignition and purse inside. This was very concerning it wasn't known what had happened till the next day. 

On October 23, 1988, her body would be found off of a gravel lane, adjacent to Route 17, approximately 1/4 mile north of the Warrenton town limit. She had died due to multiple gunshots to her face with a small caliber firearm. There was no evidence of a struggle and she was not robbed. It's believed that someone who knew her had killed the young woman. 

SOURCES:

Fauquier County Virginina

Fauquier County Virginina (pdf)

NBC News April 12, 2015

Fauquier Times October 24, 2019

Murder of Patricia Eve Gaugler

On September 29, 1980, 28-year-old Patricia Eve Gaugler was on her way from her hometown of Pottstown, Pennsylvania to Richmond, Virginia. She was planning to move in with her brother. On the trip around 3 p.m., she was last seen at the Ashland Sunco gas station on East Patrick Henry Road near I-95.

Later that day Firefighters would find Patricia's badly charred body on a dirt trail (now Wesley's Court) off of what is now Greenwood Church Road in  Hanover County, Virginia several miles from I-95. There had been a forest fire when her body was found in a wooded area. 

It's unknown how she got to where she was found, but she had died from upper airway burns due to immolation, her body had no evidence of other wounds, and there was no sign of sexual assault. It is unknown if she was conscious or not when she died. 

 

SOURCES:

Hanover County Sheriff

Stories of the Unsolved

The Morning Call October 5, 1980

6New Richmond Jan. 24, 2022

NBC 12 Jan. 24, 2022

Murder of Theresa Lynn Baker

On September 24, 1985, Theresa Baker was last seen around 2:30 a.m. at a restaurant called D'Angelo's on Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia across from Johnny's Bar. She had been to both places that night and both places were regularly by local factory workers. Theresa's body would be found on February 8, 1986, in a wooded area of Mechanicsville at the end of the Cherrydale division,

Recently Theresa moved from Pennsylvania to Chesterfield County with her two small children. 

SOURCES:

Hanover County Sheriff's Office

NBC May 11, 2010

September 16, 1948 Stony Creek Jane Doe

On September 16, 1948, remains were found in a shallow, makeshift grave by highway workers in Stony Creek, Virginia. The crew found the body when they noticed disturbed dirt near a picnic table. The young woman had died around 6 weeks before. It was stated she was missing one or both hands, but it's not stated whether or not it was intentional or from animal activity. 

Jane Doe is an African American female between 15-25-years-old. She was between 5'2" to 5'3" and around 130-135lbs. She had brown hair. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Doe Network

Unidentified Wiki

Murder of U.T. Marshall

On August 7, 1965, the body of U.T. Marshall was found buried under clothing at a dump on Richmond Highway and Fort Hunt Rd in Alexandria, Virginia. He had died from blunt force trauma. Where he was found was where he was employed. 

SOURCES:

Fairfax County Virginia

Fairfax County Virginia PDF