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This case is special to me. I lived by that field. It's where my friends and I rode our bikes and played every single day. That day after school, my friends and I were not allowed to go there (I think the scene was still blocked by PD) and none of our parents would tell us why. We heard about it through neighborhood gossip. After that, my mom never let me go there again (we'd go anyway), but it was just a case that struck home. My friends and I used to walk to the library she was walking home from and the case has stayed with me (and terrified me) for 30 years.
Important to note that a year prior, another woman was murdered in the same area. We lived in an apartment complex called at the time The Courts. The athletic field was right behind the complex. Within the complex, there were different "courts" and Lisa Jolley was strangled and put in her bathtub in Barnaby Court in broad daylight. Barnaby Court is literally a 5 minute walk to where Roberta's body was found. It's the same complex/neighborhood. Again, I had heard about Lisa's murder through neighborhood gossip.
There have been concerns about a serial killer operating in the area during that time, but for some reason Roberta and Lisa are not usually listed as victims of the serial killer and no connection has been made between a man recently arrested for two other murders a decade earlier and these cases.
Roberta:
Roberta's story:
Roberta Walls :: VBgov.com - City of Virginia Beach
She was killed 31 years ago, her body found on a Virginia Beach baseball field. There's new hope to find her killer.
POI (based on DNA phenotyping with age progression):
Any help fellow sleuths?
Important to note that a year prior, another woman was murdered in the same area. We lived in an apartment complex called at the time The Courts. The athletic field was right behind the complex. Within the complex, there were different "courts" and Lisa Jolley was strangled and put in her bathtub in Barnaby Court in broad daylight. Barnaby Court is literally a 5 minute walk to where Roberta's body was found. It's the same complex/neighborhood. Again, I had heard about Lisa's murder through neighborhood gossip.
There have been concerns about a serial killer operating in the area during that time, but for some reason Roberta and Lisa are not usually listed as victims of the serial killer and no connection has been made between a man recently arrested for two other murders a decade earlier and these cases.
Roberta:
Roberta's story:
Roberta Walls :: VBgov.com - City of Virginia Beach
She was killed 31 years ago, her body found on a Virginia Beach baseball field. There's new hope to find her killer.
POI (based on DNA phenotyping with age progression):
Any help fellow sleuths?
