THE ROUTE 29 MURDERS

Also called #Route29Slaker and #theshenandoahmurders, the Rte. 29 murders in Virginia terrified citizens and travelers beween 1996 and 2014.According to witnesses on Route 29, the unidentified stalker would flag down womwn who appeared to be driving alone on a stretch of rte 20 between Manassas and Charlottesville. Some women escaped from him and were able to provide sketch artists with his face and profile. He was never caught nor identified over a period of 20 years. Of the nine murders/disappearances only the cases of Morgan Dana Harrington (2009), Alexis Murphy (2013) and Hannah Graham (2014)were solved,ending in convictions of their murderers- the other cases are still unsolved. The search forand investigation of Alicia Showalter Reynolds (1996) still continues.

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