S.C. Man Killed 3 Va. Girls and Md. Woman, Police Believe
Rape Suspect Who Shot Self Had Incriminating Notes, Map
By Lisa Rein and Lyndsey Layton
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, July 1, 2002; Page A01
Law enforcement officials said yesterday they are confident that Richard M. Evonitz, who shot himself to death as police surrounded him in Florida last week, killed three Spotsylvania girls and a Baltimore woman whose unsolved murders have baffled Virginia authorities for six years.
Among the items recovered from Evonitz's Columbia, S.C., apartment were handwritten notes with a map and directions to Blockhouse Road in Spotsylvania, where sisters Kati Lisk, 12, and Kristin Lisk, 15, lived when they were abducted in May 1997. The notes described two white females, one "11 or 12, the other 14 or 15," next to the words "brunettes" and "very cute," said Sheriff James R. Metts of Lexington County, S.C.
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Another note had directions to where Baltimore student Alicia Showalter Reynolds's body was found in 1996, two months after she was seen getting into a pickup truck with a man along Route 29 in Culpeper County.
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Metts also disclosed that Evonitz, 38, who is suspected of kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old girl in South Carolina last week, was on a list of suspects Spotsylvania police had linked to the slayings of the Lisk sisters and Sofia Silva, 16, who was abducted from her Spotsylvania home in September 1996.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/articles/A5625-2002Jun30.html
Yes, I saw that piece in the Washington Post today too. I wonder if that guy Evonitz is responsible for any other murders, including ones we have wondered about.
Evonitz is from Columbia. Isn't the guy charged in the Shenandoah lesbian murder also from that town? Weird.