Salisbury, Fayetteville and Virginia Beach detectives assisted U.S. Secret Service agents
Thursday as they searched for a girl’s body in a small patch of woods in west
Salisbury.Armed with three
police dogs trained to recover human remains, officers looked for almost three hours in
four to five acres behind Colonial Village Apartments off D Avenue. They found nothing.
A year ago, Virginia Beach police
and Secret Service agents worked on a case, and the suspects arrested had ties to
Salisbury, Salisbury Police Capt.Mark Wilhelm said.
The agencies found information
about a possible killing that occurred in Salisbury between December 1998 and February
1999, Wilhelm said.
“Based on that information,
they felt obligated to check the area,” Wilhelm said.
The Fayetteville department
provided the three trained dogs.
The officers concentrated on an
area directly behind the same building in the 100-acre apartment complex where resident
George Johnson Jr. killed girlfriend Keshia Williams in 1997. Williams was three months
pregnant when Johnson — who was later convicted of second-degree murder — killed
her and dumped her body in the Yadkin River.
Wilhelm said the two incidents are
not related.
Patti L. Klicka, who manages the
apartments and lives in the complex, said the federal agents interviewed her but would not
say who they were searching for.
Klicka said she believes the
victim was a girl Klicka had seen visiting men overnight at one of the apartments.
“I was trying to find out
what was going on,” she said. “I can’t find why the Secret Service is
involved. They just asked me if I remembered her.” |
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