Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 24, 1995 TAG: 9505240068
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Short
Betty Joanne Woolridge, 42, has been free on bond since the week following the death of Ricky Douglas Rakes, 38.
Woolridge was living with Rakes in the River Bend Trailer Park in the New River section of the county. The Sheriff's Office was called to their home about 10:15 p.m. on Feb. 10. When deputies arrived, they found Rakes suffering from numerous stab wounds. He was taken to Radford Community Hospital, where he died.
Sheriff Ralph Dobbins said in February that Woolridge told deputies Rakes started to beat her, and she picked up a knife from the kitchen and stabbed him.
Other people in the trailer that night have said Rakes was lying down in a back bedroom when Woolridge went back to awaken him and the incident occurred, Dobbins said.
A July 26 trial date has been set in Pulaski County Circuit Court.
by CNB