still weirded out by this...

[acroyear]

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.

Comments

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

Is that the one where you and Mav used to live and you had a tiny daq night where Janice, Scott, and I were the only ones to show?

'Cause, if so, count me weirded out as well.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

different place, further down the road (same road, it just changed names as it crossed market to the north side). at that point it's about 1/2 mile away from Madison Manor.

much more middle class compared to the tiny spot you saw that we were first in, with the neighbors who's "hi fi" system for their apartment was blaring mexican calliope music out the back of a hatchback from outside.

I think pretty much only super80 and a few others stopped by that newer on rare occasions, except one time that, after I'd endured a painful walk in the slush and snow with frozen soaking wet feet, Ronin and Ivory kidnapped Mav and I for a movie.

[eac.livejournal.com]

That's...creepy.

[shalandara.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly as well.

[skivee.livejournal.com]

Add my vote to the "creepy" column.

[3fingeredsalute.livejournal.com]

You hands-down win on the creepy column, but thought I would add that I saw my first apartment I moved into when I lived in Fort Lauderdale on the 80's/90's TV Show "C.O.P.S." three (3) times. Once was a rare foot-chase on the show, once on a drive-by (officers driving by while following a car suspected of drug smuggling, not a gang-related "drive-by" shooting) and once by helicopter while chasing a fugitive through the parking lot. They were three different episodes covering three different police situations.

Your event was creepy. Mine was more WTF -- AGAIN?!?

Roadcap?

[pageant08.livejournal.com]

How weird? This is Kelly!

Re: Roadcap?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

did ye olde "google my name and see what comes up" trick? :)

btw, the cat in this icon knew that apartment quite well, too.