1983
Events that took place in Fairfax County in 1983:
Contents
January
- January 13 – 18-year-old Stephanie D. Johnson is struck and killed as she attempts to cross Lee Highway near its intersection with Village Drive in Fairfax. Johnson is take to Fairfax Hospital, where she is pronounced dead.[1]
March
- March 8 – 18-year-old Clydel D. Diggs pleads guilty to murdering 48-year-old David Thomas, Jr. at Thomas' apartment in Mount Vernon on October 28, 1982.[2]
April
- April 3 – Leonard J. Fleeger kills his wife, Mary S. Fleeger, and three children, Brian, Kimberly, and Susan, in their home at 3804 Lakeview Terrace in the Lake Barcroft neighborhood of Falls Church before committing suicide.[3]
May
- May 12 – Following his arrest for public drunkenness, 37-year-old John R. Thompson is found unconscious on the floor of his cell in the Fairfax Jail. He is taken to Fairfax Hospital, where he dies early the next day.[4]
- May 13 – Judge Lewis H. Griffith sentences 18-year-old Clydel D. Diggs to 50 years in prison for the murder of 48-year-old David Thomas, Jr. in Mount Vernon on October 28, 1982.[5]
- May 13 – 16-year-old John Svec is struck and mortally injured by drunken Navy nurse Mary Ann Cronin as he walks along Little River Turnpike in Annandale. Svec dies at Fairfax Hospital on May 16.[6][7]
- May 14 – 59-year-old electrician Burton A. Zarin is fatally burned in a fire at the Burlington Coat Factory at 3524 S. Jefferson Street in Bailey's Crossroads. Zarin and another injured worker are taken to the Washington Hospital Center, where he dies on June 2.[8][9]
June
- June 1 – 23-year-old Thomas S. Jenkins pleads guilty to second-degree murder for killing his 3½-month-old nephew Jonathan O. Dyer by throwing the baby into a ceiling light fixture while high on PCP at the Dyer family home in Annandale on November 20, 1982.[10]
- June 13 – 28-year-old Keith Hunter is ambushed and fatally stabbed by several other prisoners in a television room in Cell block No. 6 at the Lorton Reformatory.[11]
- June 23 – 16-year-old Peter K. Dickinson is killed by an Amtrak train which strikes him on the Accotink Creek Railroad Bridge in Springfield.[12]
July
- July 1 – Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Barnard F. Jennings sentences 23-year-old Thomas S. Jenkins to 20 years in prison for killing his 3½-month-old nephew Jonathan O. Dyer by throwing the baby into a ceiling light fixture while high on PCP at the Dyer family home in Annandale on November 20, 1982.[13]
- July 15 – 33-year-old Raymond T. Ball fatally shoots 33-year-old Leon F. Moore and wounds his 22-year-old girlfriend Leslie McCain at her rented house at 4104 Hummer Road in Annandale. Ball, who is also shot, staggers to a nearby 7-Eleven seeking help.[14][15][16]
August
- August 16 – 17-year-old Julie Rubin commits suicide by standing on the westbound lanes of Interstate 66 near the Nutley Street exit and allowing a truck to hit her.[17]
September
- September 2 – Vienna Town Manager Brackenridge H. Bentley fires long-time police chief Vernon L. Jones.[18]
- September 16 – Governor Charles S. Robb appoints Alexandria attorney Jack B. Stevens to replace the retiring Judge Burch Millsap on the bench of the Fairfax Circuit Court.[19]
October
- October 16 – 52-year-old Paul L. Grier, Sr. is found shot to death in his apartment at 3507 S. George Mason Drive in Alexandria.[20]
November
- November 4 – The students in charge of George Mason University's annual student film series are forced to cancel a midnight screening of the pornographic movie "Debbie Does Dallas" and voluntarily surrender the film to the Fairfax County Police Department after the FCPD obtains a warrant allowing them to seize the film as obscene.[21]
- November 9 – 46-year-old Malinda R. Williams is fatally injured in a traffic crash on Route 28 south of Centreville. Williams is taken to Fairfax Hospital, where she dies later that day.[22]
December
- December 24 – 32-year-old John P. McGlothlin grinchily murders his ex-wife Patricia as she visits with their 4-year-old son at his mother Ruby's home at 9302 Kittery Court in Fairfax.[23][24]
Crime
There were 10 murders in Fairfax County in 1983.[25]
References
- ↑ "Woman Killed Crossing Road." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jan 14 1983. ProQuest. Web. 7 Jan. 2017 .
- ↑ Moore, Molly. "Man, 18, Pleads Guilty to Murder In Shooting Case." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 9 Mar. 1983. Web. 09 Mar. 2016.
- ↑ Brown, Chip, and Mary Battiata. "Va. Man Kills Wife, 3 Children, Self." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): A1. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1994). Apr 05 1983. Web. 1 Jan. 2012.
- ↑ Moore, Molly. "Man Dies After Arrest for Drunkenness." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): B5. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). May 14 1983. Web. 3 June 2012.
- ↑ "Alexandria Man Given 50 Years in Fairfax Death." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. May 14 1983. ProQuest. Web. 8 Mar. 2017.
- ↑ "Va. Youth Dies of Injuries." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. May 18 1983. ProQuest. Web. 14 Apr. 2017.
- ↑ Moore, Molly. "Accident Fatal to Youth Described at Navy Nurse's Trial." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Aug 23 1983. ProQuest. Web. 14 Apr. 2017.
- ↑ "2 Electricians Burned." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. May 16 1983. ProQuest. Web. 6 Apr. 2017.
- ↑ "Burton Zarin, Electrical Firm President, Dies." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jun 07 1983. ProQuest. Web. 6 Apr. 2017.
- ↑ Moore, Molly. "Uncle Pleads Guilty in Death of Infant." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jun 02 1983. ProQuest. Web. 28 July 2016 .
- ↑ "9 Lorton Inmates Indicted in Fatal Stabbing of 10th." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 9 Nov. 1983. Web. 05 Nov. 2016.
- ↑ "Amtrak Train Strikes and Kills Fairfax Youth." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): B15. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1994). Jun 24 1983. Web. 4 Feb. 2012.
- ↑ Moore, Molly. "Va. Fisherman Sentenced to 20 Years for Drug-Related Slaying of Infant." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jul 02 1983. ProQuest. Web. 28 July 2016.
- ↑ Moore, Molly. "Man Slain, Two Wounded in Annandale." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Jul 16 1983. ProQuest. Web. 10 June 2017.
- ↑ Moore, Molly. "Va. Man is Convicted of Murder, Wounding." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Sep 23 1983. ProQuest. Web. 10 June 2017 .
- ↑ Heath, Thomas. "Va. Murder Conviction Overturned." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jul 30 1988. ProQuest. Web. 10 June 2017.
- ↑ "Reston Girl, 17, Hit, Killed by Truck in Apparent Suicide." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Aug 17 1983. ProQuest. Web. 2 Aug. 2014.
- ↑ Hodge, Paul. "Town of Vienna Abruptly Fires its Police Chief." The Washington Post (1974-Current file), Sep 08 1983, p. 1. ProQuest. Web. 14 Sep. 2018.
- ↑ "Around the Region: Fairfax Gets New Judge."The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Sep 17 1983. ProQuest. Web. 31 Dec. 2013.
- ↑ "Crime Watch." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Oct 27 1983.ProQuest. Web. 27 July 2016.
- ↑ Battiata, Mary. "'Debbie' Doesn't Visit George Mason U. Event." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Nov 05 1983. ProQuest. Web. 5 Jan. 2017.
- ↑ "Crash Kills Centreville Woman." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Nov 11 1983. ProQuest. Web. 5 Jan. 2017 .
- ↑ "Woman Slain in Fairfax." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Dec 25 1983. ProQuest. Web. 20 Aug. 2014.
- ↑ Fishman, Charles. "Jury Convicts Christmas Eve Slayer of First-Degree Murder." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. May 26 1984. ProQuest. Web. 20 Aug. 2014.
- ↑ Gaines-Carter, Patrice. "Serious Crime Up Slightly in Fairfax." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Feb 05 1985. ProQuest.Web. 21 Aug. 2016.
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