After more than five decades, Virginia State Police say they have solved the 1973 murder of Shirley L. Washington, bringing long-awaited answers to a case that remained a mystery for years.
Washington, 33, of Washington, D.C., was found dead on December 8, 1973, in Conway Robinson State Forest near Gainesville in Prince William County. She had suffered eight stab wounds. At the time, the case went unsolved.
Now, investigators with the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation say new analysis and a review of evidence point to her husband, Clarence E. Washington, as the person responsible. He died in 2013 at the age of 68…