July 1989
Events that took place in Fairfax County in July, 1989:
- July 2 – 10-year-old Rosie Gordon is kidnapped while walking home from a friend's house in the Lake Braddock neighborhood of Burke. Her suffocated corpse is found two days later about five miles away on Bentonbrook Drive in the Brecon Ridge Woods neighborhood of Fairfax.[1][2]
- July 19 – 45-year-old Roger A. Taylor, Sr. is convicted of first-degree murder for instigating the stabbing of his wife Carolyn by his son Roger, Jr. on March 11.[3]
- July 21 – When she refuses to give him money to repay his friend for a prostitute he'd hired earlier in the evening, 24-year-old Debra Stallings is murdered by her husband, Ricky, who stabs her over 80 times at her house at 3929 San Leandro Place in Alexandria.[4]
- July 31 – Eugene Turley is convicted of first-degree murder for the December 6, 1988 murder of Dorothy A. Peterson over a $75 drug debt.[5]
- July 31 – 24-year-old Victor A. Santizo is found beaten to death at the intersection of Interstate 66 and the Fairfax County Parkway in Fairfax.[6][7]
References
- ↑ Evans, Sandra, and Matt Lait. "Missing Fairfax 10-Year-Old is found Dead;Residents Who Mobilized Massive Search Now Gripped with Fear." The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext): 0. Jul 05 1989. ProQuest. Web. 5 June 2014.
- ↑ Davis, Patricia. "Slain Lake Braddock Girl, 10, was Suffocated, Autopsy Finds;Worried Neighbors Keep an Eye on Children." The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext): 0. Jul 06 1989. ProQuest. Web. 5 June 2014.
- ↑ Richardson, Lynda. "Fairfax Man found Guilty of Instigating Wife's Murder." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jul 20 1989. ProQuest. Web. 2 July 2014.
- ↑ Brown, DeNeen L. "Young Wife Kept Faith --and Lost Her Life." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Feb 01 1990. ProQuest. Web. 26 July 2016 .
- ↑ Brown, DeNeen L. "Teen Guilty in Va. Murder Over a $75 Cocaine Debt." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): B1. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1994). Aug 01 1989. Web. 16 Jan. 2012.
- ↑ "Crime Watch: Fairfax County." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Aug 10 1989. ProQuest. Web. 15 Feb. 2017.
- ↑ "Crime Watch: Montgomery County." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Aug 17 1989. ProQuest. Web. 15 Feb. 2017.
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