Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, February 18, 1995 TAG: 9502200014
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: ABINGDON LENGTH: Short
Forensic experts told Washington County investigators Thursday that they had successfully lifted four additional finger- or palm prints from a plastic grocery bag found beside the face of murder victim Brenda Kay Hagy when her body was found Jan. 23.
Investigators have theorized the killer may have held the bag over the woman's head as he choked her to death, then inadvertently discarded it as he dumped the body. Last week, police scientists discovered what they've speculated to be a thumb print - possibly belonging to the victim's killer - near the handles of the bag.
Efforts to match the fingerprints with those in law enforcement computer files in Virginia have been unsuccessful, so authorities will use FBI files.
Additionally, lab analysis has revealed the victim had engaged in sexual intercourse and sodomy, probably within just a few hours of when her partially clothed body apparently was tossed from a tractor-trailer cab - her left leg run over by the back wheels of the rig.
``We're not sure whether it was forced sex, but because of the presence of semen, we think there's a good chance she had sex with her killer,'' Investigator Ross Sheets said.
Keywords:
FATALITY
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