The killer identified as responsible for murdering two women in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia died in prison in 2018, the FBI said.
A deceased convicted serial rapist from Ohio has been identified as the suspect responsible for the murders of two women in Shenandoah National Park nearly 30 years ago, a case that has confounded investigators. DNA evidence that was recently retested linked Walter Leo Jackson Sr., of Cleveland, Ohio, to the killings of 24-year-old Julianne 'Julie' Williams and 26-year-old Laura 'Lollie' Winans, the FBI said Thursday.
Jackson was a painter by trade and was an 'avid' hiker who was known to visit Shenandoah National Park. In 2004, another man, Darrell D. Rice, was indicted for the killings but the charges were dropped just before his trial after his DNA failed to link him to the crime. The Virginia FBI took a new look at the case in 2021, Meador said.
Those results confirmed we had the right man and finally could tell the victim’s families we know who is responsible for this heinous crime,' Meador said. 'There was a one-out-of-2.6-trillion chance that it originated from someone other than Walter Leo Jackson,' Kavanaugh said. 'I've prosecuted many homicides and cold cases, and I have never witnessed statistics that high.
The FBI is working to determine whether Jackson was responsible for other unsolved crimes.
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