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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Debra Angle

Year
1974
Where
Roanoke County, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

Debra Angle was found deceased in her apartment, Stratford Park Apartments, on November 12, 1974 during the daylight hours. Her cause of death was ruled to be strangulation and her manner of death a homicide. At the time of her death, Angle was an x-ray technician at a local hospital in Roanoke. She had two female roommates who were not on scene at the time of her death.

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

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