VA VA - Melvin Giles, 75, Campbell County, 26 October 2000

Melvin Giles, Oct. 26, 2000

Anne Giles was in the walk-in freezer at the store she and her husband owned when she heard gunshots.

She looked out of the freezer and saw her husband, 75-year-old Melvin Giles, lying on the floor, bleeding, with money dropped beside him. She also saw a black man running out the door of Giles Deli and Convenience Store on U.S. 460 near Mount Athos in Campbell County.

Over the past decade, investigators have conducted hundreds of interviews but are still missing the one piece that will lead them to the killer.

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Ten years ago, a Campbell County shopkeeper was shot and killed while working in his deli. After all these years, the Giles Market murder remains clouded in mystery. It's even become the subject of a few local rumors.

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"One person holds one domino that just needs to fall and then the rest of them will come into play," said Carol Giles.

Ten years ago, local businesses announced a reward of $26,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person who killed Melvin Giles. His wife says she believes that reward is still out there waiting to be claimed.

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