chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> I spend a good chunk of my day researching and
> writing, and one street name in Lorton keeps
> coming up in my endeavors as connected with some
> of the most distressing events.
>
> Hagel Circle.
>
> Here’s my list of the most disturbing occurences
> I’ve found so far:
>
>
January 15, 1987 Off-duty
> Virginia State trooper Alexander M. Cochran, III,
> and Army Sergeant Dennis R. Kief, both 27, are
> shot to death in the 9800 block of Hagel Circle.
>
>
September 1, 1990 While visiting
> friends in a home in the 9600 Block of Hagel
> Circle, 23-year-old Paul S. Harley is shot to
> death.
>
>
September 28, 1991 The strangled
> corpse of 22-year old District woman Antonena B.
> Lindsay is found in the 9700 block of Hagel
> Circle.
>
>
August 4, 2005 30-year old
> Christian A. Green is stabbed to death in the 9600
> block of Hagel Circle.
>
>
September 27, 2006 Connie L.
> Briggs Parham, of 9588 Hagel Circle, dies in a car
> crash in Prince William County, aged 51.
>
>
May 29, 2009 54-year-old Robert
> J. Neal, Jr. shoots his wife, 45-year-old
> Jacqueline Y. Neal, to death, then kills himself
> in their home at 9637 Hagel Circle.
>
>
September 22, 2010 Elieen Cecilia
> Langham-Anderson, 24, and her two sons, 5-year-old
> Soloman Anderson and 3-year-old Alfonso Anderson,
> die in a house fire at 9639 Hagel Circle.
>
> In case you didn’t keep count, that’s
>
11 violent, unnatural deaths of people,
> more than half of them
murders, connected
> with a road that is
two thousand feet
> long.
>
> Someone should do some deeper investigating. Is
> this an old Indian burial ground? A former
> cemetery? Or, as Steven King’s Jud Crandall
> describes in his novel “Pet Sematary”, is it
> just that the ground is sour?
>
> At any rate, I’m quite sure there’s one street
> in Lorton I won’t be visiting anytime in the
> near future. Care to guess which one?
>
>
References
>
> 1. Eve Zibart and Martin Weil, Washington Post
> Staff Writers. "Virginia Trooper, Army Sergeant
> Slain :Third Man Wounded in Fairfax Shooting 2
> Killed, 1 Wounded in Fairfax . " The Washington
> Post (1974-Current file) 16 Jan. 1987,ProQuest
> Historical Newspapers The Washington Post (1877 -
> 1994), ProQuest. Web. 9 Mar. 2011.
>
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=139179592&sid=2
> &Fmt=10&clientId=1452&RQT=309&VName=HNP
> 2. "Fairfax Man Slain in Lorton. " The
> Washington Post (1974-Current file) 2 Sep.
> 1990,ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Washington
> Post (1877 - 1994), ProQuest. Web. 9 Mar. 2011.
>
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=869640712&sid=2
> &Fmt=10&clientId=1452&RQT=309&VName=HNP
> 3. "Arrest in Fairfax Killing. " The Washington
> Post (1974-Current file) 29 Oct. 1991,ProQuest
> Historical Newspapers The Washington Post (1877 -
> 1994), ProQuest. Web. 9 Mar. 2011.
>
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1065491922&sid=
> 2&Fmt=10&clientId=1452&RQT=309&VName=HNP
> 4. Tom Jackman. "Lorton Man Stabbed to Death
> While Trying to Break Up Fight :[FINAL Edition]. "
> The Washington Post 6 Aug. 2005,Washington Post,
> ProQuest. Web. 9 Mar. 2011.
>
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=878353811&sid=3
> &Fmt=3&clientId=1452&RQT=309&VName=PQD
> 5. "Connie L. B. Parham." Petersburg
> Progress-Index 1 Oct. 2006. Print.
>
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-22156400.html
> 6. Fairfax County Police Department. Public
> Information Office. Fairfax County Police
> Department Activity Report. Fairfax County Police
> Department, 5 June 2009.
>
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/police/crime/incident
> -reports/2009/activity_report_06-05-09.pdf
> 7. Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department.
> Fire Victims Identified. Fire & Rescue: News
> Release. 24 Sept. 2010.
>
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/fr/news/2010archive/2
> 010_088.htm
>
> Note: This article was originally posted in the
> Fairfax General Forum at
>
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/525
> 191/525191.html#msg-525191
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