GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) — It’s been 37 years of heartbreak and unanswered questions for the family of Laurie Ann Powell, who was 18 when she went missing, and less than a month later, found floating in the James River near Craney Island.
Some of those questions were answered Friday by Virginia State Police during a news conference, in which they announced that a fourth homicide, Powell’s, is connected to a former Northern Neck resident who died in 2017.
“We are here to announce that a suspect has been identified in the 1988 cold case of Gloucester County resident Laurie Ann Powell,” aid Virginia State Police spokesperson Robin Lawson. “Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. has been declared the person responsible for Powell’s homicide.”…