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Cold Case Solved 52 Years After Woman Found Dead in Virginia State Forest

Investigators say new forensic work and witness review identified Clarence E. Washington, who died in 2013, as the killer.

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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. The Virginia State Police announced Friday that it has closed a homicide investigation 52 years after a Washington, D.C. woman was found murdered in Conway Robinson State Forest.Shirley L. Washington, 33, was found murdered in the Northern Virginia forest on Dec. 8, 1973. She had eight stab wounds at the time of her death.Special agents were able to determine that her husband, Clarence E. Washington, who died in 2013 a…

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WTVR broke the news in Richmond, United States on Friday, April 24, 2026.
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