NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — The 79-year-old Newport News woman found dead in her home on the 300 block of Heacox Lane last week had been shot at least once, according to new court documents in the case that spell out some of what police have learned so far.
Hendrika Elizabeth Richards was found on the morning of April 21, wrapped in a tarp, bound with duct tape and rope after police responded to a welfare check, court documents state. Investigators executed a search warrant on the home she and her husband shared, and tneh found a firearm with four spent casings and a single unfired cartridge in the bedroom.
“On the carpet next to the body are two possible blood stains, a roll of duct tape, rope and an additional grey tarp in the room,” a search warrant in the case reads…