VA VA-Virginia Marie Hill, 69, Ret. PA police detective,( MP specialist, AMW guest),fatally shot in home invasion, Suffolk,18 Oct; '14,*New initiative*

dotr

Well-Known Member
Websleuths Guardian
Joined
Oct 21, 2009
Messages
56,653
Reaction score
168,382
October 19 2024
''Around 5:30 a.m., on Oct. 18, 2014, police responded to a home invasion in progress on Collier Crescent.
The dispatcher heard a single gunshot over the phone. Retired Philadelphia police detective, Virginia Marie Hill was rushed to Obici Hospital where she later died from a gunshot wound.''

October 18, 2014 By R.E. Spears III rbbm.
1729358004973.png

Read more at: Homicide investigated - The Suffolk News-Herald
''Hill joined the Philadelphia police department in 1977, stepping into the Juvenile Aid Division in 1981, where she worked before retiring in 2002. She became a missing persons specialist in 1989.''

''Aside from “Sightings,” Hill also appeared on CNN and several local television and radio talk shows and had been a guest on the popular show “Most Wanted.” She had been profiled in the New York Times and Police Magazine and had been honored by the National Organization for Black Law Enforcement Executives, which she had represented on the board of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s Project Alert steering committee. She appeared in the 2004 National Law Enforcement Officers’ Memorial Fund calendar, which labeled her a “living legend.”
 
How did they know there was a safe?

Welcome to Ws @Virginiab3ach!
Good point, how did the perps know there was a safe in the house?
From your link, thanks.. rbbm.
''Court documents say a woman identified as Virginia's daughter, Julina Hill, called police at 5:28 a.m. and told them that several people had entered the house and demanded that her mother tell them where her safe was located.''
 
Despite being a fairly long-time member of Websleuths, I just came across this thread while trying to see if Virginia was still a police officer and/or investigator since it was posted in another thread that she was an investigating officer in the disappearance of Edna Christine Thorne in 1975.

How sad that Virginia, who seems to have dedicated so much of her career and life to investigating, finding and bringing justice for missing persons, has herself been an unsolved murder since 2014. Including the link for Edna Thorne's thread since there is a connection.

 

Members online

Online statistics

Members online
151
Guests online
498
Total visitors
649

Forum statistics

Threads
625,565
Messages
18,506,289
Members
240,816
Latest member
Matrix42013
Back
Top