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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Hazel Williams

Year
1983
Where
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

On Friday, April 22, 1983, the body of Hazel Williams was discovered in her apartment in the 800 block of Virginia Beach Blvd. Investigators determined the victim had last been seen alive earlier that same day walking on 17th Street and 18th Street. Her death was the result of blunt force trauma and the manner to be homicide.

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

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