When he does something right, I owe it to him to bring it to the attention of listers here.
Six years ago, two women were killed in the Shenandoah National Park. An arrest was made earlier this week. It has been mostly a local news story, so here are some links in case you haven't heard.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...-2002Apr10.html
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Gay Bias Charged In Deaths
U.S. Uses '94 Law In Hikers' Slayings
By Brooke A. Masters
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 11, 2002; Page A01
A federal grand jury has charged a Maryland man with capital murder in the 1996 slayings of two women at a secluded campsite in Shenandoah National Park and said he singled out his victims because of their gender and sexual orientation, the Justice Department announced yesterday.
Darrell D. Rice has long been suspected in the deaths of Julianne M. Williams and Laura S. "Lollie" Winans, and now faces the death penalty based in part on general statements he made about women and the crime, authorities said.
Williams, 24, and Winans, 26, were found June 1, 1996, at their tent about a half-mile from the Skyland Lodge on Skyline Drive. Their throats were slashed and their hands were bound.
The federal grand jury in Charlottesville [VA] said Rice, 34, of Columbia, selected Williams and Winans because of his hatred of women and gay people. The case marks the first time that prosecutors have invoked a 1994 law that allows the government to seek harsher penalties for crimes motivated by bias against gay people, Justice Department officials said.
"Just as the United States will pursue, prosecute and punish terrorists who attack America out of hatred for what we believe, we will pursue, prosecute and punish those who attack law-abiding Americans out of hatred for who they are," Attorney General John D. Ashcroft said at a news conference. "Hatred is the enemy of justice, regardless of its source. We will not rest until justice is done for Julianne Marie Williams and for Lollie Winans."
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It's in the _Washington Blade_ too.
http://www.washingtonblade.com/