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ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· Accomack County, VA

The Sable Creek Murders (1989)

Unsolved homicide from 1989 in Accomack County, VA. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the physical evidence inventory.

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Empty residential street at night under a streetlamp
Timeline
  1. 1989

    Body discovered near Sable Creek; the county opens a homicide investigation.

  2. 1990

    Initial canvass closes without a named suspect; the case goes inactive.

  3. 1997

    Evidence is re-submitted for testing under a cold case grant.

  4. Recently

    Ledger contributors reopen the evidence inventory and index the public record.

Community leads
2 filed
carbon_copy1 day ago

The dispatch log puts the first unit on scene before the call was logged. Either the timestamps drift or the report was filed twice.

132 agree
secondpassYesterday

Latent prints from the scene predate the national database. Nobody has requested a modern comparison.

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