ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, September 24, 1996 TAG: 9609240069
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
2 women inmates die mowing lawn
LAWRENCEVILLE - Two inmates at the Brunswick Work Center were struck by a car and killed Monday while they were cutting the lawn on the prison grounds.
The women had just shut off their push mowers when a vehicle came over a hill and hit them, then jumped a ditch and struck an embankment, a state police spokeswoman said. A third inmate also on work detail escaped injury by jumping into a ditch.
The driver, an Alberta resident, was not injured. His name was not released, and he was not charged, police said.
The inmates, whose names were withheld pending notification of relatives, were facing traffic at the time of the accident, which occurred outside the prison fence but within the prison grounds.
-Associated Press
Smithsonian expert to analyze remains
STAFFORD - A forensic anthropologist from the Smithsonian Institution will analyze the remains of Ava DeHart as investigators try to solve a mystery that has surrounded her death for 14 years.
Doug Owsley will analyze the remains this week to determine how the 26-year-old woman died, said DeHart's sister, Debbie DeHart.
``The more thorough they are in the investigation, the better chance we'll have of convicting'' the killer, Debbie DeHart said.
Ava DeHart disappeared July 20, 1982, shortly after leaving her job at a motorcycle shop in south Stafford. She usually walked to her mother's house near the shop, the Stafford Sheriff's Office said.
Her remains were found Aug. 24 at the bottom of a 19-foot well in Orange County. No one has ever been charged in the disappearance.
-Associated Press
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