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Missing

Jeffrey Spruill

Year
1994
Where
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

Jeffery was working as a crewman with Garland Godfrey aboard the launch Cape Hatteras, ferrying six passengers from Lynnhaven Inlet to the collier Pantelis A. Lemos, anchored just east of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. One of the passengers, Georgios Dracodaidis , was attempting to board the coal-hauling ship using an accommodation ladder when he lost his balance and fell. Jeffrey yelled, "man overboard,'' and…

From the Virginia State Police cold case database. Records change. The source is the authority.

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