Even as he was dying, slipping in and out of consciousness, Ray Williams was still a detective. Propped up in the faux-leather recliner in his hospital room in the cardiac […]
Seated in rows in what appears to be a cavernous high school gymnasium, identically dressed older people in dark, shaded glasses silently perform exercises in unison. One woman in the […]
Editor’s note: This feature is the final installment of a 10-part series on the landmark criminal justice case of the South Side Strangler, which marked the nation’s first use of […]
John Lennon famously sang that “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Charlottesville native rockers Sons of Bill can attest to the truth of that […]
Editor’s note: This feature is the ninth installment of a 10-part series on the landmark criminal justice case of the South Side Strangler, which marked the nation’s first use of […]
Editor’s note: This feature is the eigth installment of a 10-part series on the landmark criminal justice case of the South Side Strangler, which marked the nation’s first use of […]
Notes from the six-day trial of the South Side Strangler in part seven of the Southern Nightmare series.
Detectives move on their suspect, using DNA evidence for the first time to catch a serial killer.
Authorities in two cities start to close in on a suspect in the fifth edition of the Southern Nightmare series.
A familiar strangulation scene in Northern Virginia confounds authorities in part four of the Southern Nightmare series.
Editor’s note: This feature is the third installment of a 10-part series on the landmark criminal justice case of the South Side Strangler, which marked the nation’s first use of […]
 Editor’s note: This feature is the second installment of a 10-part series on the landmark criminal justice case of the South Side Strangler, which marked the nation’s first use […]













