still weirded out by this...

Roadcap Murder: a Local Cold Case:

She was a beauty queen, a mother and the victim of one of Harrisonburg's most brutal murders, but 11 [now 12] years later, her killer remains free and the nightmare continues for the family of Robin Roadcap who was just 31 years old when she died.

"It is a very vivid memory," says Roadcap's childhood friend, Kelly Davis.

The memory starts with video of the crime scene.

"I actually saw it on the news," says Davis as she describes how she learned of Roadcap's death. "I caught 'a woman on Vine Street found dead in her apartment.'"

That's how Davis learned her friend had been murdered.

She says, "When the camera zoomed in on her apartment from the outside, I noticed her teapot inside on the stove and at that point, I knew it was Robin's apartment."

On that cold night in 1997, Davis was in shock as she drove to Longview Oaks Apartments where hours earlier, Roadcap's mother discovered her dead body in the bathtub of apartment 551-B. Roadcap had been strangled.

The tragedy should have ended there. However, in the 4,045 days since that day, those who knew Roadcap have replayed the events of January 7, 1997 over and over again, because her killer still walks free to this day.

...not because I knew her at all, as I'd never heard of her before, but because it was the exact apartment I lived in from 1991 to 1993.

Not just complex: the exact apartment itself.

Quote of the Day

"The American economy can not exist unless Americans regard as necessities what other people look on as luxuries." - Wendell Willkie, who lost to FDR in 1940.