
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, November 4, 1994                   TAG: 9411040111
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

SLAIN WOMAN'S CAR FOUND

Roanoke police have located a car that was taken from the home of an Old Southwest woman who was found beaten to death and stuffed in a car trunk this week.

A blue Nissan reported missing from Virgie A. Green's home on Woods Avenue was spotted by a patrol officer in the parking lot of a Franklin Road convenience store, police said Thursday.

Police have said they were looking for the car and a pickup truck also owned by Green, and for two West Virginia men who reportedly were living with her in the weeks before the killing.

It was unclear Thursday if the car's discovery gave police any new leads. A store employee told police that the car had been there for about two weeks, and there was no indication that it had been tampered with.

On Tuesday afternoon, Green's body was found in the trunk of a blue Buick parked behind her house at 421 Woods Ave. S.W. An autopsy determined that she died from a blunt-force injury to her head.

Green, 44, had been reported missing by one of her daughters last week. Police still were searching for the two men, who disappeared about the same time Green did.

Police have stopped short of calling the men suspects but have said investigators are "very interested" in talking to them.

The second vehicle taken from Green's home, a gray Dodge Ram pickup truck with a camper shell and license number ZUC-6035, had not been located.

by CNB