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...first shooting that broke the killing pattern--flimsy as it was--came the next day in a parking lot in Spotsylvania County, Va. The shooter had deviated by about 70 miles from the epicenter of the other attacks, spurring speculation that he was rebelling against hypotheses that he must live in Montgomery County. The shooting also left the woman injured but alive. And it took place in front of another Michaels store. Desperate for a motive, police contacted Michaels headquarters in Texas for reports of disgruntled employees. But the return to a Michaels craft store may have been sheer coincidence...
...just mean denial. So it was easy last week to find people--even rescue workers at Ground Zero--who said they still could not believe this could possibly have happened. We wobble between resolve and despair; the lines between prudence and paranoia blur. A three-year-old boy in Spotsylvania, Va., fatally shot himself with the gun his father had just brought home to protect his family...
...minute drive from Harpers Ferry to Manassas National Battlefield Park, where soldiers fought the Battles of Bull Run and where General "Stonewall" Jackson earned his nickname. Then head west to the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and its four major battlefields: Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House. You'll need at least two days to take it all in, so plan to spend at least one night in a city hotel, inn or bed and breakfast (call the Fredericksburg Visitor Center for complete lodging information). While you're in the neighborhood, visit the James Monroe Museum...
Some experts believe the number of serial killers is rising. "Going back to 1960, you had about 10,000 homicides a year in the U.S., and most of these were solved and very few of them represented multiple or serial killers," notes Ressler, now a forensic consultant in Spotsylvania, Virginia. "Today we're running 25,000 homicides a year, and a significant number of those homicides are going unsolved. We're seeing a great increase in stranger killing and in many of these cases, the victims are falling to serial and multiple killers." Still, the notoriety these killers enjoy...
...arrests and fires. But the Star also searches for the significance behind the news, interpreting a freshly passed state law or the impact of a zoning-board decision. The paper began a series in January called "County at the Crossroads," which explores the bright and dark sides of Spotsylvania's growth; one story described how a draft budget submitted to the board of supervisors could more than double real estate taxes. The Star has also disclosed inefficiencies in the nearby Stafford County treasurer's office and detailed the deceptive sales techniques a developer used to sell vacation lots...