ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, October 14, 1996 TAG: 9610140108
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: RICHMOND
Police investigating the slayings of a city woman and her 7-year-old daughter searched the home of a parolee convicted 13 years ago of murdering a Charlottesville girl.
Richmond police searched the trailer of Glenn H. Barker in Dinwiddie County on Friday. They also seized his pickup truck.
No one has been charged in the deaths of Cynthia Powers Johnson, 34, or her daughter, Heather. They were stabbed to death, and their house was set on fire.
In 1983, Barker was sentenced to 18 years in prison for second-degree murder in the death of Katie Worsky, a 12-year-old Charlottesville girl who disappeared in July 1982. Her body was never found.
Barker, 35, was released on mandatory parole in May 1992. Under parole laws in effect when he was sentenced, an inmate received 30 days of good time credit on his sentence for each 30 days served.
In a sworn statement used to obtain the search warrants, police said Johnson and Barker had lived together for about 18 months and had broken up because Heather did not like Barker.
The source of that information was Gary Wayne McAllister, who told police that he dated Johnson after she and Barker broke up.
Barker acknowledged talking to Johnson by telephone the day she died, after at first saying that he had had no contact with her.
- Associated Press
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