Still Missing: Kathryn Bene Griffin (VA)
When Linda Archie calls her daughter’s cellphone, she prays she’ll hear her voice. Maybe Bene’ will say she needed to get away. Or that she went on an adventure with a friend. Whatever the reason, Archie wouldn’t mind. “We’re a family,” she said. “She is loved by her family, and we want her back.” Kathryn Bene’ Griffin disappeared on Jan. 7. Her former boyfriend saw her at his Portsmouth barbershop. She borrowed his bicycle, he said, then pedaled away. Griffin’s life had been troubled, her mother said. In the early...
Read MoreMedical examiner seeks public’s help on IDs (VA)
Do you know these men? All three were found dead in Richmond under suspicious circumstances over a period of years and have never been identified. They are among 220 sets of remains that Virginia’s chief medical examiner hopes to put names to in an initiative seeking the public’s help. “We have skeletal remains that go back to 1960s still archived in our offices, waiting for somebody to come forward and to be able to identify these folks and return them to their loved ones,” said Dr. Leah Bush, the chief medical examiner. In many cases, Bush said, the problem is that...
Read MoreStolen from his mother: Where is David Ezelle Blockett? (VA)
A Newport News family is still searching for answers. Over 30 years ago, David Ezelle Blockett was stolen from his mother by a woman who posed as a social worker. He was 15 days old when a woman stole him and never looked back. David’s hospital photo was the only one that his older brother Frederick had to hold on to for 30 years. “When you have your brother snatched from you, you gonna think about him,” says Frederick. The story of these separated siblings begins at a Newport News home on 13th street on December 11, 1980. Nineteen-year-old Vanessa, the boys’ mother, was inside the...
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