This Day In Fractured Fairfax:July 2
- July 2, 1941 – Fairfax County Police Chief Carl R. McIntosh reports that there were 41 traffic deaths in Fairfax County in the fiscal year, with 19 of those occurring in the first six months of 1941. Chief McIntosh announces the creation of a traffic safety squad to deal with speeders and reckless drivers.
- July 2, 1968 – 40-year-old former Fairfax County Police Captain Olin F. Sanders pleads guilty to a misdemeanor charge of encouraging an abortion for his role in the botched abortion that killed 30-year-old police stenographer Barbara A. Smith on May 29 and is fined $100 by Judge Donald C. Crounse.
- July 2, 1976 – 23-year-old Robert E. Knight is killed in Reston when he crashes his motorcyle into a stop sign on Wiehle Avenue.
- July 2, 1989 – 10-year-old Rosie Gordon is kidnapped while walking home from a friend's house in the Lake Braddock neighborhood of Burke. Her suffocated corpse is found two days later about five miles away on Bentonbrook Drive in the Brecon Ridge Woods neighborhood of Fairfax.
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