chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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>
Warning:
> the following post is rated tl;dr.
style="font-size:larger;">Was the Roy Rogers
> Killer Freed From Prison?
>
> While searching through Fairfax Underground's
> arrest database, I found an interesting entry:
>
> BREEDEN JAMES L 77 07/15/2013 18.2-31(4) CAPITAL
> MURDER: ROBBERY 515 N ARMISTEAD ST ST, ALEXANDRIA,
> VA
>
> Now, for those of you who don't know
why
> this is an interesting entry, I have to talk a
> little bit about a notoriously dark chapter of
> Fairfax County's history.
>
> On March 6, 1976, during a robbery at the Roy
> Rogers Restaurant at 6227 Little River Turnpike in
> the Lincolnia area, four people: 36-year-old
> Dennis Gildea, 22-year-old Patrick T. Marcil,
> 19-year-old Richard H. Morefield, Jr., and
> 23-year-old Edward Nakpodia were herded into the
> walk-in freezer and shot to death. It was one of
> the worst mass murders in Fairfax County history.
>
> A fifth victim, 22-year-old Julie Nakpodia,
> survived despite being shot in the head, and
> identified 40-year-old James L. Breeden as the man
> who shot her. Additionally, Samuel M. Burns
> testified during Breeden's trial that he had
> committed an earlier robbery with Breeden and had
> cased the Roy Rogers Restaurant with him.
>
> Although he staunchly maintained his innocence,
> claiming he had been playing cards with his wife
> and mother-in-law at the time of the crime,
> Breeden was convicted on November 2, 1976 and
> sentenced by Judge Burch Millsap on November 22 to
> five life terms plus 20 years in prison.
>
> So, five life terms plus 20 years, surely the guy
> died in prison, right?
>
> Well, maybe not. You see, parole in Virginia was
> only abolished in 1994. It was a key plank of
> George Allen's (of later "macaca" fame) successful
> 1993 gubernatorial campaign. Before that, if you
> served enough of your time and were a well-behaved
> prisoner, you could expect to be paroled after
> sometimes serving only a fraction of your
> sentence. Nowadays, convicted felons have to serve
> at least 85% of their sentences and keep their
> noses spotlessly clean before they're discharged.
>
>
> Another thing is the law that Allen signed on
> October 13 only applied to crimes committed after
> January 1, 1995. For crimes committed before that
> date, the old parole laws still apply. For James
> L. Breeden, this meant he was eligible for parole
> starting in February 1991.
>
> Okay, you say, but surely they wouldn't give
> someone who murdered four people and tried very
> hard to murder a fifth parole. Probably not.
> Virginia has a very low parole grant rate, even
> for prisoners in their 70s and 80s.
>
> Also, according to what I've read, James L.
> Breeden died in prison in the early 2000s, which
> means there are other possibilities as to how this
> entry came to be.
>
> For example, it's entirely possible that another
> person who just happened to have the same name and
> who was the exact same age as the James L. Breeden
> convicted of the Roy Rogers murders in 1976 was
> arrested on July 15, 2013 on the exact same
> charge.
>
> It's also entirely possible that someone was
> screwing around or entered test data into the
> FCPD's computers and it managed to make it out as
> part of the arrest list that Cary scrapes to build
> the Fairfax Underground arrest list.
>
> And of course, it's entirely possible that
> somehow, the man convicted of one of the worst
> mass murders in the history of Fairfax County did
>
not die in prison and was instead quietly
> released some time in the past decade.
HOLY shit. This frightens and confuses me. I did indeed read the entire post, but I'm a little bit of an idiot, so forgive me if I got this wrong-
So dude (James breeden) killed 4 people and got what was supposed to be a lifetime in jail (with possible loopholes enabling him to get out earlier) but reportedly died in prison in the early 2000s. Now a listing of the same crime by a person of the same name is posted as happening in 2013.
Also: Hey now, chuck, the title of this thread is a little click-baitish!
;)