Police Try to Determine When Pham Met Killer
VIENNA, Va. - One woman says she saw a local college student's car the day the student died and Fairfax County
(web | news) police are hoping more people will come forward to say they saw something, too.
Monday, eight days after Vanessa Pham was found stabbed to death in her white Toyota crashed off Route 50, a woman says she saw the car on its side in the woods a week ago Sunday. She said she saw it before police were called to the scene.
"We left our house around 3:15 p.m. so it was probably about 3:20 when we passed by. We thought it was someone who had been racing down Route 50 and just abandoned their car there," said the woman, who prefers to protect her identity.
Fairfax County police say Vanessa Pham had been at a nearby Gallows Road nail salon less than a half hour before she was found dead.
What detectives are trying to determine is if she encountered her killer in the parking lot -- a place that would have been very busy on a Sunday afternoon.
"I think it's fear you know, people like to be out of horrible situations like this. They don't want to give up what they know. So, hopefully somebody will just kind of step up and if they saw something come clean, because that's the only hope you really have," said Brimmer Atkins, a Vienna resident.
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