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You won’t ever hear about this on TV because the victims were homeless drug addicts. Back in 2010, a local sheriff requested my presence at a meeting involving murders in several jurisdictions in the connecting tips of Virginia and Tennessee. The deaths involved the murders of five white women living on the periphery of society. They were homeless drug addicts who were circumstantially linked to one man - Oadis William White lll. The drive was 5 hours for me, but I attended t

Convicted Rapist Matthew J. Buckland In May 2017, a Charlottesville PD investigator contacted me about a rapist. The investigation was going to be difficult because the offender, Matthew Buckland, targeted three emotionally vulnerable women and raped them after initiating consensual relationships. INCIDENT 1 - Multiple Sexual Assaults, September 2015 – March 2016 Victim: White female, 22 years old, 4th year university student, Charlottesville, VA. The victim and Buckland work

During my career, I have assisted with two investigations involving homemade explosives. The second investigation involved a Cuban immigrant, Luis Cristobal, who during the early morning hours of February 7, 2000, set explosive devices in three locations in Chesterfield and Dinwiddie Counties. He placed one device under a pickup truck driven by a man he suspected of having an affair with his wife. Two other bombs were directed at his wife’s brother; one device was placed und

PRELIMINARY INFORMATION: Reports about undocumented immigrants killing American citizens often make the news but what about when the opposite occurs? Investigating crimes perpetuated against undocumented immigrants is so difficult because the victims typically spent years hiding in anonymity with a minimal footprint in society; they are "shadow people" living in safe obscurity. I n 2007, a Virginia homicide investigation brought me and another VA State Police agent to Califo