Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, February 26, 1994 TAG: 9402260062
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: staff and wire reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
October 1959: Hampton catches polio, which permanently damaged his left leg.
September 1960: Hampton's parents divorce, and his father does not maintain contact with his family.
1967: Hampton's family moves to the New River Valley.
January-February 1974: Hampton is suspended from Christiansburg High School for having wine on a bus. He drops out of school.
February 13, 1975: Hampton, then 16, kills his 95-year-old neighbor Della Clark Britt.
March 1976: Hampton, tried as an adult, is convicted and sentenced to 45 years in prison, with 15 years suspended, at Southampton Correctional Institute in Southside Virginia.
May 1983: Hampton is paroled.
January 1985. Hampton pleads guilty in Montgomery County to 22 counts of forgery and is sentenced to 10 years in prison. Additionally, the 15 years suspended in Britt's murder is reimposed, giving him a total of 25 years to serve.
August 1985: Hampton goes back to prison.
April 1992: Hampton, at his third parole hearing, is given discretionary parole. He goes on intensive-supervision probation and alcohol-abuse counseling.
November 1993: Pulaski police find the unconscious and battered body of Bobby McDaniel, an acquaintance of Hampton's. McDaniel remains hospitalized with a serious head injury caused by a claw hammer.
February 1994: Pulaski grand jury hands down a sealed indictment charging Hampton with the malicious wounding of McDaniel. Pulaski Sheriff Ralph Dobbins said Hampton learned of the indictment and that's why he fled to West Virginia.
Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m.: Witnesses watch as a man forces a woman at knifepoint into her car in a parking lot in Beckley, W.Va. Beckley police find Hampton's car, and charge him with carjacking and kidnapping.
Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m.: The owner of the car, a 41-year-old Beckley woman, reports her rape. W.Va. state troopers later charge Hampton with first-degree sexual assault.
Feb. 24, early morning: A man vists Buford McCoy's garage in Montgomery County, hits him over the head with a pipe, steals nearly $500 and pulls the phone out of the wall. Montgomery County deputies charge Hampton, who McCoy says was a repeat customer at the garage, with armed robbery.
Feb. 24, 11:30 a.m.: A man enters Evelyn Rappapord's car at the Ironto rest stop in Montgomery County on Interstate 81. Her passenger, Irene Kimball, struggles with him. Rappapord, 77, returns and fights with him as well, but he drives off in her white Oldsmobile with handicapped license tags. Montgomery County deputies charge Hampton with carjacking and assault.
by CNB