Posted on 10/12/2023 9:43:32 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1984, the eldest of Richmond’s still-notorious spree-killing Briley brothers went to Virginia’s electric hair.
Though they came from a respected and stable family, the Briley youths turned out to be such terrifyingly bad seeds that their father, James Sr., eventually kept his own bedroom door padlocked against them.
Our man Linwood Briley was the calculating leader, and the first of the Brileys to taste blood when he senselessly shot a 57-year-old neighbor hanging laundry in her backyard in 1971. As the shooter was only 16 at the time, he did a brief turn in reform school and returned to Richmond neither rehabilitated nor deterred.
In 1979, Linwood led his younger brothers James Jr. (J.B.) and Anthony on a seven-month rampage with a friend named Duncan Meekins. (Meekins would wisely turn state’s evidence against his accomplices.)
On March 12 of that year, Linwood and Anthony knocked on a door in Henrico County, pleading car trouble. No sooner did William and Virginia Bucher admit them then the Brileys trussed up the good samaritans, ransacked their house for valuables, and tossed a farewell match into the gasoline trails they had run through the rooms.....
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Boy oh boy, does this bring back some memories!!
I can tell you that when the Briley Bros. were executed, there was rejoicing & we called it the “Briley Brothers BBQ”. They were animals.
When they first escaped, it was thought they headed to NC (they were loose from May 31 to June 19). My neighbor was a State Trooper & she was on road blockade duty for about a week and a half. We have a lake place & had to go through road blocks to get there. Everyone was carrying - if you ran into the Brileys, you were dead unless you could get them first.
A friend of mine was going to work on I-95 on a weekend and spotted the Brileys headed north. He said he locked eyes with one of them - scared him to death. As soon as he got to work, he called the FBI, which probably further confirmed they were headed north to relatives. They were eventually found/captured in the Philadelphia area near an uncle’s house.
Scary times for sure.
Electric hair? Don King? Funny typo.
“...went to Virginia’s electric hair.”
I believe that’s the result of the electric chair.
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