Ulisa Chavers has been convicted of murdering her boyfriend, the Times Dispatch reports. You remember her as the Louisa County woman who murdered her husband and buried him in a shallow grave, then poisoned her boyfriend and hid his body in a well. She collected their Social Security benefits for years afterwards. Chavers is already in prison, serving fifteen years for embezzlement and hiding her boyfriend’s body—now she’s got another thirty years to serve on top of that. Given that she’s 62 years old, that’s a life sentence.
If you haven’t yet had your daily dose of eyeball-popping rage, this will be the perfect thing for you: George Huguely’s defense is that Yeardly Love just happened to die while he was bludgeoning her, as a result of her Adderall prescription, Lisa Provence writes for The Hook. The medical examiner determined that Love died from blunt force trauma to the head, but Huguely’s attorney, Fran Lawrence, insists that her cause of death is unknown, so it may well have been that the Adderall in her system meant that she was highly vulnerable to a fatal cardiac event.
The goal here is presumably to establish doubt in the mind of an eventual jury—potentially the difference between life in prison and a decade.
Fairfax County Deputy Chief of Police Steve Sellers has been named Albemarle’s new police chief, Carter Johnson reports for CBS-19. Chief John Miller is retiring after two decades as the county’s top cop. Sellers was selected from 108 candidates. He’ll start the job at the end of January.
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