Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 6, 1993 TAG: 9310060179
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: MARION LENGTH: Medium
The latest charge against Michael McGay Reeves is first-degree murder in the death of Barbara Jean Hagy, 47, whose beaten body was found in the Pugh Mountain section of Smyth County in April 1989.
A Job Corps member reported to Marion police that she was raped the night after Hagy's body was discovered.
That was about a month after Reeves returned to his native Smyth County and found a job.
He was convicted of trying to kill, as well as of kidnapping and robbing, a U.S. Forest Service employee in Smyth County on Oct. 13, 1989. She was sexually assaulted and stabbed.
Four days later, a clerk in a Bristol, Tenn., motel was held up and raped, and a Knoxville, Tenn., motel employee was kidnapped and raped.
Both Tennessee motel employees identified Reeves as their attacker, but he has not been charged in those rapes.
Reeves was convicted Oct. 19, 1990, in the Forest Service case and sentenced to two life terms plus 100 years. He was convicted Feb. 12, 1991, of forcible sodomy but acquitted of kidnapping in the Job Corps case and given a 10-year sentence.
On May 4, 1992, Reeves pleaded guilty to the Feb. 6, 1989, murder in Craven County, N.C., of a woman who was sexually assaulted and shot. He received the death penalty, which is being appealed.
He is considered a suspect in at least two other deaths, one involving the Dec. 18, 1988, kidnapping and slaying of a Craven County convenience-store clerk and the other stemming from the slaying July 5, 1989, of Betty Ann Shumate, whose body was found in Smyth County after she was reported missing from the Adwolfe Food Store where she worked.
by CNB