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Newport billboard seeks clues to Childs-Metzler murder case Mike Gangloff 20 hrs ago
Newport billboard seeks clues to Childs-Metzler murder case
Mike Gangloff 20 hrs ago
Anew billboard on U.S. 460 asks drivers to search their memories — and their hearts — for possible clues in the long-unsolved murders of Heidi Childs and David Metzler.
The shooting of the two Virginia Tech sophomores 11 years ago at the Caldwell Fields recreation area in the Jefferson National Forest in Montgomery County prompted a multi-agency investigation that was renewed last year, with Virginia State Police vowing to go back to the case’s beginning and review every bit of information that had been collected. At a news conference in August, state police Special Agent W.S. Mitchell said that in the year since the re-start, investigators “have been able to advance this case like never before” but still needed more information.
On Monday, a billboard featuring Metzler and Childs’ faces went up in the Newport community of Giles County, just across the county line from the site of the students’ deaths. Placed at the intersection of U.S. 460 and Virginia 42, the sign was sponsored by the Roanoke-based AWARE Foundation, a group that publicizes missing person and murder cases to try to rally public help. ... The billboard asks anyone with information to call state police at (540) 375-9589 and reminds readers that there is a $100,000 reward for tips that lead to an arrest.
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According to law enforcement statements over the years, Heidi Childs and Metzler were killed on Aug. 26, 2009, between 8:25 p.m. and 10 p.m. in the Caldwell Fields parking lot along Craig Creek Road. They were shot with a .30-30 rifle. Metzler’s guitar, which he had brought to play that night, was still in his navy 1992 Toyota Camry. Childs’ purse, credit cards, Tech ID and lanyard, camera and cellphone were gone, police have said. ... The next morning, their bodies were found.
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Mike Gangloff
Mike Gangloff covers crime, breaking news and courts in the New River Valley. He can be reached at mike.gangloff@roanoke.com or (540) 381-1669.
Mike Gangloff 20 hrs ago
Anew billboard on U.S. 460 asks drivers to search their memories — and their hearts — for possible clues in the long-unsolved murders of Heidi Childs and David Metzler.
The shooting of the two Virginia Tech sophomores 11 years ago at the Caldwell Fields recreation area in the Jefferson National Forest in Montgomery County prompted a multi-agency investigation that was renewed last year, with Virginia State Police vowing to go back to the case’s beginning and review every bit of information that had been collected. At a news conference in August, state police Special Agent W.S. Mitchell said that in the year since the re-start, investigators “have been able to advance this case like never before” but still needed more information.
On Monday, a billboard featuring Metzler and Childs’ faces went up in the Newport community of Giles County, just across the county line from the site of the students’ deaths. Placed at the intersection of U.S. 460 and Virginia 42, the sign was sponsored by the Roanoke-based AWARE Foundation, a group that publicizes missing person and murder cases to try to rally public help. ... The billboard asks anyone with information to call state police at (540) 375-9589 and reminds readers that there is a $100,000 reward for tips that lead to an arrest.
{snip}
According to law enforcement statements over the years, Heidi Childs and Metzler were killed on Aug. 26, 2009, between 8:25 p.m. and 10 p.m. in the Caldwell Fields parking lot along Craig Creek Road. They were shot with a .30-30 rifle. Metzler’s guitar, which he had brought to play that night, was still in his navy 1992 Toyota Camry. Childs’ purse, credit cards, Tech ID and lanyard, camera and cellphone were gone, police have said. ... The next morning, their bodies were found.
{snip}
Mike Gangloff
Mike Gangloff covers crime, breaking news and courts in the New River Valley. He can be reached at mike.gangloff@roanoke.com or (540) 381-1669.