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🗓️ 16 July 2024
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0:00.0 | Thank you, SAC Meader. My name is Chris Kavanaugh, and I'm the United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia. |
0:06.0 | My office has been working with this new team of investigators that the FBI put in place to investigate the Shenandoah Park murders that occurred in 1996. |
0:15.6 | Towards the beginning of my term as United States attorney, I was extensively briefed on this |
0:19.7 | matter, and I had the privilege to sit down with the victim's families. |
0:24.4 | And I shared with them that it was in my assessment that without a forensic link to the perpetrator, |
0:29.7 | that this crime may never be solved. |
0:32.4 | I'm so grateful for the hard work of this new |
0:34.8 | team of investigators and prosecutors that has led to this announcement today. |
0:40.7 | Laura Salisbury-Wines, known as L Lolly was 26 years old in 1996. |
0:45.0 | She grew up in Gross Point, Michigan. |
0:47.5 | She was an experienced hiker and involved in environmental issues. |
0:51.0 | She was a student at Unity College. |
0:54.2 | Julian Marie Williams, known as Julie, was 24 years old in 1996. |
1:00.7 | She was from St Cloud, Minnesota and also involved in environmental issues, and would readily help people in me. |
1:07.0 | She had a degree in geology and also was an experience hiker. |
1:11.0 | Lolly and Julie met through an organization providing outdoor adventure and educational |
1:16.4 | programs for women and they planned a trip to Shenandoah |
1:19.9 | National Park in May of 1996, entering the park on May 19th. |
1:26.2 | The two were last seen alive by Park Personnel on May 24th, 1996, around 530 p.m. |
1:34.9 | Their bodies were discovered on June 1st of 1996. |
1:40.1 | We've had an investigation ongoing for the last 28 years and I can announce that if Walter Leo Jackson Sr. were alive today in light of what our investigation has uncovered to include the new forensic evidence, the information that he visited Shenandoah |
1:55.4 | National Park, and evidence of his other crimes that I would authorize a federal indictment |
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