FBI identifies serial rapist as person responsible for 1996 Shenandoah National Park killings

DNA evidence helps solve killings of 2 women in Shenandoah National Park nearly 30 years later

Almost 30 years after the brutal killings of two women in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, the FBI says it now knows who was responsible.

Decades after 2 women were killed in Shenandoah National Park, serial rapist linked to their deaths

Nearly three decades after two women were found dead in a national park in Virginia, their killer — a "serial rapist" who died in prison in 2018 — was identified through forensic tests, the FBI said Thursday.

FBI identifies convicted serial rapist as suspect in cold-case national park double murder

A deceased convicted serial rapist from Ohio has been identified as the suspect responsible for the murders of two women in Shenandoah National Park nearly 30 years ago, a case that has confounded investigators. DNA evidence that was recently retested linked Walter Leo Jackson Sr., of Cleveland, Ohio, to the killings of 24-year-old Julianne "Julie" Williams and 26-year-old Laura "Lollie" Winans, the FBI said Thursday.

FBI identifies serial rapist as person responsible for 1996 Shenandoah National Park killings

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Nearly three decades after two young women were found with their throats slashed in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, federal authorities announced Thursday that they have identified a now-deceased serial rapist from Ohio as the person they believe was responsible for the killings.The bodies of Julianne “Julie” Williams, 24, and her partner,...

Convicted serial rapist linked to Shenandoah park murders, FBI says

The man had never surfaced as a suspect in a nearly 30-year investigation of two murders at a secluded campsite in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

FBI reveals critical clue that led to break in Shenandoah National Park cold case murders: 'We don't give up'

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. -- FBI agents say DNA has identified the man responsible for a double murder in Shenandoah National Park that rocked Virginia nearly 30 years ago.Stanley Meador, special agent in charge for the FBI Richmond Office, said when he took over the field office in 2021 that he was briefed on the case of the 1996 murders of 24-year-old Julie Williams and 26-year-old Lollie Winans in Shenandoah National Park.The special agent assigned…