From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast. On February 26,

26, 1985, a man crumples to the floor of the warehouse

of the Newland Transfer Building

in suburban Washington, D suburban Washington DC in Prince William

County, Virginia. He is bleeding heavily from the head and close to death. His name

is Enrique Elizarbay. Five years earlier he immigrated from the slums of Lima, Peru looking for a better life.

It was a search that took him to this warehouse and a job building crates for $5 an hour.

As Elizarbay lies barely conscious, a fellow worker named Roland Wheeler comes out of the warehouse

and across the parking lot.

He returns a few moments later with the dispatcher

Harry Newlin. Enriche is still bleeding but talking.

I said, are you hurt? And instead of saying yes or anything like that there he would repeat

back to me are you hurt an ambulance arrives but Enrique Elizarbay is fading

before slipping into a coma he manages to provide one fact about his

attacker. Sergeant Bob Zin of the Prince William County Police Department was

on the scene. The rescue member indicated that the victim made some sort of

statement that a coworker had done this to him. Warehouse records indicate that one

person was assigned to work with Elizarbay that day,

the man who first called for help, Roland Wheeler.

Police are anxious to get his account of what happened to Elizarbay.

Detectives Dave Watson and Dennis Mangan question Wheeler.

This is Detective Dave Watson.

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