Culpepper Woman Was Found Hanging with a Bullet in Her Head in Burning Basement, Jan. 10, 2006
By Seamus McGraw
RICHMOND, Va. (Crime Library) Authorities are trying to determine whether the bloody trail that allegedly led multiple-slaying suspects Ray Dandridge and Ricky Gray from western Pennsylvania to Richmond may also have cut through Culpepper County, and whether the two men hold the key to solving the murder of a young woman who was found shot in the head and hanged in her burning basement last month.
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| The Warner home in Culpepper, Virginia |
So far, authorities have found no solid evidence linking the Dec. 18 slaying of Sheryl Warner to Dandridge and Gray, said Maj. Jim Branch, a spokesman for the Culpepper County Sheriff's Department. But there is at least one chilling similarity between Warner's slaying and the New Year's Day massacre in Richmond that claimed the lives of former House of Freaks frontman Bryan Harvey, his wife Kathryn and their two young daughters, authorities say. Both cases involved arson fires, set, authorities believe, to cover up the crime.
Among other things, investigators are hoping to determine whether Gray and Dandridge found their way to Culpepper County at the time of the Warner slaying, and expect to meet with Richmond detectives to trade notes on the cases. "Obviously, we need to look at all possibilities...realizing that while the possibility may be there, you have to look at the probability," Branch said. "That is something that our investigators would do... (when they) meet with the city of Richmond detectives."
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