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Posted by: chuckhoffmann ()
Date: August 27, 2014 07:50AM

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: H ()
Date: August 27, 2014 08:10AM

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!
;)

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Breeden died in prison, fool ()
Date: August 27, 2014 08:13AM

WTF cares?

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Fuzzynuts ()
Date: August 27, 2014 08:19AM

I do.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: googling ()
Date: August 27, 2014 08:19AM

There were several mentions of this case around the time that Horan retired. Several mentioned that Breeden died in prison. The VaDoc database has a James Ray (as opposed to Leroy) Breeden currently being held in Page County. Page County Circuit Court case info says that's he's in there for a probation violation that will be tried on 9/10/14. Given the Parole Board's consistent denial rates (they love to cite how serious the underlying crime was in their denials, even after the passage of long periods of time and obvious signs of rehabilitation), I doubt he ever got out and that this is some sort of glitch. Chuck, is there any mention of where (which county-to check the online court records) the 7/15/13 arrest was?

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: August 27, 2014 08:23AM

That took a second read Chuck, but I think I get it now..

Weird.


Breeden did live somewhere in Landmark at the time of the killings, may have been Armistead St.

Why though is the criminal code entered (18.2-31(4))? I don't see it for anyone elses offenses?

BTW Chuck, I sent you a PM a good while back about an old murder case, do you read them? Never heard back from you!


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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: He's dead, Jim ()
Date: August 27, 2014 09:24AM

Get over it.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Walk ()
Date: August 27, 2014 11:16AM

Contact the Washington Post or news channels to investigate. It's an interesting story.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Dale Evans ()
Date: August 27, 2014 11:47AM

Opening up old wounds here, are we? Mr. Breeden, a 30 year criminal, had never committed a violent crime before this incident happed. Ms. Nakpodia originally gave a spot on description of Roger Stafford as the one who did this crime, not Mr. Breeden. Mr. Stafford at the time was wanted by Oklahoma City Police for the famous "Sirloin Stockade Slaughter," and the OKC Police tried to work with Fairfax Police because there were so many similarities between the murders Mr. Stafford was accused of in OKC, and the Roy Rogers murders in Alexandria, VA. At the time, Mr. Stafford was one spot shy of getting on “America’s 10 Most Wanted List.” FCPD and prosecutors kept to their script that they had the culprit in custody every time OKC Police and prosecutors tried to contact and compare notes.

The OKC Police Department had identified at least 20 robberies/murders in places Mr Stafford was known to have been at the time. Robberies/murders in this country are quite rare. We do have robberies, we do have murders, but the combination are rare. This combination, though, was Mr. Stafford’s preferred MO.

Mr Stafford was actually arrested in Fairfax county in 2007 for murder after brutally beating up someone trying to collect a debt. He was sent back to OKC for trial for the Sirloin and Stockade Slaughter." Mr. Breeden was convicted of the Roy Rogers' murders.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Stafford did it ()
Date: August 27, 2014 11:54AM

Stafford died of Lethal injection in Oklahoma in 1995.



http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s1/stafford-roger-dale.htm

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Posted by: chuckhoffmann ()
Date: August 27, 2014 12:29PM

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: anonanonanon ()
Date: August 27, 2014 12:48PM

Obit from the WaPo four years ago:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/13/AR2010101306515.html

Richard Morefield, 81
U.S. diplomat seized in Iranian hostage crisis

By Adam Bernstein
Thursday, October 14, 2010

....
Mr. Morefield credited his resolve to the memory of his son and namesake, Rick Jr., who in 1976 was killed execution-style in one of the Washington area's most infamous murder cases. His son, a freshman at Northern Virginia Community College, was working at a Roy Rogers restaurant near Alexandria when an armed holdup man ordered Rick Jr. and four others into a walk-in refrigerator.

The five were all shot in the head. James L. Breeden was convicted and died in prison several years ago.

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Posted by: chuckhoffmann ()
Date: August 27, 2014 01:12PM

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: thinking out loud ()
Date: August 27, 2014 01:31PM

When did Julie Nakpodia die? Maybe she died of her gunshot wounds many years later - similar to James Brady - and they charged him with the additional homicide. Although, you can't charge a dead man, can you?

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Date: August 27, 2014 01:42PM

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: he had a gun, right? ()
Date: August 27, 2014 03:17PM

Has anyone explored the possibility that it could have been Roy Rogers?

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: just wondering ()
Date: August 27, 2014 06:22PM

Was Breeden a nigger, or a white guy?
Wouldn't be surprised if he was a nigger.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Whatever.... ()
Date: August 27, 2014 07:28PM

Breeden died in jail years ago. He was white.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: RememberIt ()
Date: August 28, 2014 02:38AM

I remember this case so well. I was very young at the time, but I remember my older sister lived in the apartments in the area. There was a lot of talk about Breeden being not guilty. Would love to have them re-visit the case and look at DNA evidence if there is any/or if it was preserved. Weird info from OP...It would be scary to think they would ever consider parole if they truly knew he was guilty. I believe he has passed, but the posted info sure makes you wonder.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Whatever.... ()
Date: August 28, 2014 03:37PM

Breeden died in jail years ago.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: kJvjk ()
Date: August 28, 2014 05:36PM

RememberIt Wrote:
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> I remember this case so well. I was very young at
> the time, but I remember my older sister lived in
> the apartments in the area. There was a lot of
> talk about Breeden being not guilty. Would love
> to have them re-visit the case and look at DNA
> evidence if there is any/or if it was preserved.

It makes you wonder what evidence he got convicted on in the first place. This Stafford theory seems quite plausible.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: The Word Was ()
Date: August 29, 2014 10:46PM

That Breeden died in prison. Now if a con is released he's paid his "debt' and thus maybe someone cooked up the "he died in prison" story to protect his ID.

How the hell does any one pay their "debt"..in a Capitol Murder case like Breedens?? ...But...

I will say if the state released him at a ripe old age..then thats that .Let him be.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Higgs ()
Date: August 30, 2014 09:03AM

"
I will say if the state released him at a ripe old age..then thats that .Let him be."

Pretty cavalier attitude toward someone that shot 5 innocent people in the head.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: So What Would You Do? ()
Date: August 30, 2014 10:24AM

As stated "how the hell does one pay their debt" for such a crime.

I remember well when it happened.

But Im not the state . You want to mess with him..You'll be the one going to jail.

The real question is he dead or alive.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Warning: the following post is ()
Date: August 30, 2014 10:25AM

Warning: the following post is rated dumber than fuck.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: KB ()
Date: May 28, 2015 12:25PM

Julie Nakpodia is still alive.

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ROY ROGERS KILLER FREED
Posted by: learn to post ()
Date: May 28, 2015 12:28PM

Loser.

FCPS graduate.

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Re: ROY ROGERS KILLER FREED
Posted by: title ()
Date: May 29, 2015 02:34PM

My friend had worked in that Roy Rogers and knew the victims. Is the killer dead or out?

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Re: ROY ROGERS KILLER FREED
Posted by: ken harnageWy ()
Date: October 25, 2015 11:45AM

the mother fucker is dead. you have never seen as much blood as I have . what a crime .may this shithead burn in hell.

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Re: ROY ROGERS KILLER FREED
Posted by: I'm Lost ()
Date: October 25, 2015 07:04PM

Which way to the restroom?

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Re: ROY ROGERS KILLER FREED
Posted by: Neil Sawyer ()
Date: April 06, 2016 10:13AM

Were you an investigator on the crime scene? I was an employee there and the last one to see them alive. I remember that night and the following day very well.

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Re: ROY ROGERS KILLER FREED
Posted by: yum yum ()
Date: April 06, 2016 01:14PM

Neil Sawyer Wrote:
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> Were you an investigator on the crime scene? I
> was an employee there and the last one to see them
> alive. I remember that night and the following
> day very well.


Dude, can you hook me up with a free Double R Burger?

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Mike Jacobs ()
Date: February 13, 2017 09:31PM

You'd care if you worked with one of the people who was murdered. You'd care if you were a decent human being that others were murdered while just trying to make a living. You'd care if you realized how little money they made at their jobs but all were trying to make ends meet. Who knows, you might even have cared if it was a family member or friend of yours.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Donnie Davis ()
Date: April 19, 2017 05:34PM

Breeden died in prison 2007

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: CMmDK ()
Date: April 19, 2017 06:21PM

Another thread gets the Chuck Hoffman treatment.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Bet you idiots can't open this t ()
Date: April 19, 2017 07:55PM

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: A Winnar is Me! ()
Date: April 19, 2017 07:58PM

Bet you idiots can't open this t Wrote:
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You lose.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Fa Kinae ()
Date: April 19, 2017 10:04PM

A Winnar is Me! Wrote:
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> You lose.


What a bait-taking chump you are.


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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Cathy Armstrong ()
Date: June 03, 2017 08:45AM

James Leroy Breeden died of cancer in 2009 at SussexII prison in Va.For the last years of his life he had no contact with the world outside with the exception of one person and that was me.I personally feel that an innocent man died in prison by the hands of the commonwealth.I did countless years of research on this case as did another author from Oklahoma city and though he had a past and was no saint by society standards he was not a killer.I am not sure how you thought he had been released but rest assured he died a very slow, painful death in prison and was never released out to the world.Peoples careers were built on this case and I watched it first hand as I lived in Fairfax when the murders happened.This is just another tragedy in the justice system of an ignorant poor man.Funny how Sam Burns was believed to be credible to compile a stack of lies including dates and locations of crimes they committed but was given a free pass to live his miserable life out when elections are happening and people are in fear,mistakes are made and this entire case was a prime example of that.Most people dont know that just days before the Fairfax murders happened in Oklahoma the very same thing happened at the Sirloin Stockade ,several people were robbed and executed with the same kind of weapong and a man who has already been exectued in Oklahoma "Roger Stafford" was their killer and witnesses saw and spoke to him (relatives) who lived in Fairfax ,the day before the murders and Oklahoma City called Fairfax when they heard about the Roy Rogers murders and they were told they already had their man and needed no information from them.Just too many things that the public didnt know and its just amazing to me how people can hold public office and prosecute people for a living when they know an innocent person died for crimes he NEVER committed.Jim was a thief but he was no killer.And that Sir is the truth.

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Posted by: Off the block ()
Date: June 03, 2017 08:59AM

A friend of mine worked there, but was off that day. He was in high school at the time and still considers himself lucky to have not been working that day.

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: DeniseF ()
Date: September 05, 2017 09:05AM

Cathy Armstrong, the Oklahoma murders were in 1978 and the Virginia Roy Rogers murders were in 1976, yet you claim Roger Stafford (the Oaklahoma killer) was likely the Roy Rogers killer because he had done the same type murder days earlier in Oklahoma. What am I missing?

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Re: Roy Rogers Killer Freed
Posted by: Double R bar ()
Date: August 10, 2023 11:42AM

DeniseF Wrote:
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> Cathy Armstrong, the Oklahoma murders were in 1978
> and the Virginia Roy Rogers murders were in 1976,
> yet you claim Roger Stafford (the Oaklahoma
> killer) was likely the Roy Rogers killer because
> he had done the same type murder days earlier in
> Oklahoma. What am I missing?

Not sure

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Roy Rogers killer freed
Posted by: Arbys was across the street ()
Date: February 20, 2024 03:02PM

No wonder they no longer call the large frypod a holster!

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