Hi Brody: I'm glad the NY newspaper leads helped. I did run across a couple of Washington Post (pay-per-view) stories and one mentioned that Charles Remey found his wife with one self-inflected gun shot wound and while he was calling for help she fired a second shot. If Remey called the police then there must be a police/corner report somewhere. These reports may still be around considering t
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Brody, thank you for your reply. I would add T.C. Williams High School to your list. I came across an article about the Lorton Reformatory brick yards that may be of interest. Lorton VA-Where Inmates Paved the Way For A New Future "In 1925 the brick kilns were considered some of the best on the east coast and in 1927 it is estimated the inmates made over 4.2 million bricks. The kilns were
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Hi Brody Thank you for all of the information you have been providing in regards to the Remey Crypt. It was a fascinating place back in the day that I visited many times. I went to Hayfield Secondary which served students in the Lorton area starting in 1973. Prior to that time Lorton residents went to West Springfield HS. The county changed the bus boundaries in 1973. Students who were
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Thank you for the new posts on this topic. I find the information fascinating. It seems Charles Remey was a very public person as you can find several volumes of documentation that he wrote in his life time scared on different sites on line. In Remey's last will and testament dated August 29 1963 he said he didn't care where he was buried and left the decision up to his soon to be adopted son,
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I lived in the Lorton area back in the 1970's and attended Hayfield H.S. I went to the Remey Crypts a few times. I have three photos of the place that I took in 1978 with an old 110 Instamatic Camera. I do not know how much help they will be but I thought I would add them to the topic. Earlier in this topic I saw where someone mentioned the Hugononts engraving that was located within one of
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