18-year-old Jamie Poindexter has been arrested, charged with the murder of 28-year-old UVa graduate student Alison Meloy. Poindexter, who lives next door to Meloy, has also been charged with robbery and grand larceny. WVIR had the story on their 11 o’clock broadcast.
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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I’ve got to say: I’m impressed. Just last night I was telling my friend Kevin that there was no way that county police would catch the guy on their own, that they’d definitely have to call in state cops or the FBI. It’s just that C’ville and county murders are almost always acquaintances, whether it be husband/wife, boyfriend/girlfriend, or guys fighting over drugs. Murders based on robbery or random violence and such are true rarities. So county police just aren’t experienced, I wouldn’t imagine, in solving crimes like this.
Anyhow, I’m quite happy to have been wrong.
-Waldo
Kudos to the police on such a swift arrest. The only question I have is – should we have been told through any of the various news agencies that this was not an “acquaintance” killing if the police knew? That way – people may have been a bit more careful. After recently moving here from Alexandria, I think maybe I am a bit too lax in keeping all of my doors and windows open when I am home alone.
Channel 6 (out of Richmond) just said that police “expect to make more arrests” in this case.
Very interesting.
-Waldo