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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Jerald Calvin Williams

Year
1994
Where
King William County, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

On September 21, 1994, a Chesapeake Paper Products employee was checking the fire trails on the company's property in King William County, Virginia, when he came upon an abandoned vehicle. The vehicle was stuck and it was apparent the vehicle had been there for some time. It would later be determined by police that the abandoned vehicle was registered to James Eliot Williams and Jerald Calvin Williams, brothers who…

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

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