GUILTY VA - Nancy Dunning, Ron Kirby, & Ruthanne Lodato, murdered, Alexandria, 2003-2014

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A Metropolitan Police Department report shows Severance went to the Russian Embassy on Wisconsin Avenue in NW Washington on the afternoon of Friday, March 7, to request asylum. He was "sent on his way" and labeled an "unwanted guest" in a report taken by officers.

Severance's effort to seek asylum happened about 24 hours after Alexandria Police Chief Earl Cook held a news conference discussing possible connections between the three killings.


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Looks like he was trying to run to Russia.
 
colette said:
A Metropolitan Police Department report shows Severance went to the Russian Embassy on Wisconsin Avenue in NW Washington on the afternoon of Friday, March 7, to request asylum. He was "sent on his way" and labeled an "unwanted guest" in a report taken by officers.

Severance's effort to seek asylum happened about 24 hours after Alexandria Police Chief Earl Cook held a news conference discussing possible connections between the three killings.


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Looks like he was trying to run to Russia.
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I'd missed the timing on his visit to the embassy...it does make it sound like maybe he is the guy.

The Washington Post article now says Ruthanne Lodato's brother who is a retired judge was trying to determine if he'd been the judge in a gun-possession case against Severance in the '90s.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...c56a6e-ab8d-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_story.html

I'm not seeing any obvious connections to Ronald Kirby, the transportation planner, but this guy's thinking is pretty peculiar.
 
Just now seeing this news. Wow... I need to go read up on what I missed.
 
He fits the sketch and the profile of what appears to be a retaliatory type offender. Someone who nurses grievances, real or imagined against others. I hope they've got him.
 
OEJ said:
He fits the sketch and the profile of what appears to be a retaliatory type offender. Someone who nurses grievances, real or imagined against others. I hope they've got him.
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Bbm. Usually I can't see any resemblance between police sketches and their real-live counterparts, but this guy-whoa! It's like he posed live for the sketch artist!
 
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FBI has just searched this VA pond in the Alexandria murders investigation. Details at 5pm @fox5newsdc pic.twitter.com/knsQ3DbXHo

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Wonder if this is related.
 
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FBI agents just finished searching this #FairfaxCo pond for evidence in Charles #Severance case Details #News4@5, 6 pic.twitter.com/HaTsQuURAn
 
Wow - somehow I had missed this.

And no kidding does he look like the sketch - as well as a creep!

Anne Haynes is Kirby’s widow, and says that the notion of a possible break in the case does not alleviate her pain and sense of loss – regardless of who the killer is:

"I am not vengeful. There's no motivation for what he did. It was a bizarre, wrong thing to do."
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I can understand not being vengeful, but I have to admit I had to reread that last sentence several times because I really couldn't believe that her characterization of her husband's murder was to call it bizarre. Not sure I've ever heard a family member reference it that way before. But...to each their own.

Now the whole embassy thing...that I'd call bizarre! Points for creativity, I guess though!

Amid all of this is a bizarre side note. The MPD report describes how Severance appeared at the Russian embassy one week ago seeking asylum – but he was turned away.
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I had to giggle at their calling him an 'unwanted guest' though it's too bad they didn't call and at least request a 'welfare check' by police since clearly his actions show he's at least a bit 'off' or something.

They sure do seem to want to keep people still being aware, which I found interesting.

"I don't want anyone to think this is the person we and the police have been looking for," Euille said.
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Hoping it's really more out of an abundance of caution thing and not because they're really that unsure he's not the guy.

Thought this was also interesting...

"His garage door was up -- they were pulling things up, ripping things apart, about 30 to 40 cop cars, FBI..." said neighbor Michelle Smith. "They were standing there with these big guns, and it was scary."
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Wonder if they thought he might have help? If not, why standing there with big guns if they knew him to be in jail? Nevermind that they had 30-40 agents there!

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http://www.leesburgtoday.com/news/severance-gun-case-headed-to-july-grand-jury/article_29b83042-f729-11e3-b1d1-001a4bcf887a.html

A Loudoun District Court judge today ruled there was evidence to send the gun possession case against the Ashburn man linked to an Alexandria Police investigation into three homicides forward to a grand jury.

The case against Charles Severance, 53, will be heard by the July grand jury and return to court at 9 a.m. July 15...

He was charged with possession of firearms by a convicted felon.
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http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/264768...-charged-in-three-unsolved-alexandria-murders

Months after police called Charles Severance a person of interest in three high-profile unsolved murders in Alexandria over the last 11 years, he has been charged and indicted by a grand jury.

The indictment contains ten charges, including two charges of capital murder and one charge of first-degree murder...

An Alexandria grand jury indicted Severance in the 2003 murder of Dunning, the 2013 murder of transportation planner Ronald Kirby and the 2014 murder of music teacher Ruthanne Lodato. They were all shot in their homes at close range. Detectives believe Severance pulled the trigger each time and now a grand jury has agreed.
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The same judge who presided over the trial of D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo will oversee court proceedings of a man who prosecutors say fatally shot three of the Alexandria’s most popular and well-known residents over the past decade.

Virginia Chief Justice Cynthia Kinser appointed Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Jane Marum Roush to rule on the murder case against Charles Severance...

Severance is charged with murder in connection with the February slaying of music teacher Ruthanne Lodato, 59; the November shooting of regional transportation planner Ronald Kirby, 69; and the 2003 killing of real estate agent Nancy Dunning, 56.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...51ff98-434a-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html
 
http://alextimes.com/2015/01/severance-ordered-to-undergo-further-evaluation/

Circuit Court Judge Jane Roush had ordered Severance to undergo a mental competency evaluation last month, after Severance tried to fire his court-appointed defense team.

At a hearing last Thursday to review the results of that evaluation, attorneys announced that Severance refused to participate in the evaluation, declining to be interviewed by court psychologist Anita Boss.

Roush granted prosecutors’ request to send the defendant to a state mental hospital for a more in-depth evaluation of whether he is competent to stand trial. But her ruling did not come until Severance twice interrupted the proceedings.
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I wonder if he really is mentally incompetent or just good at working the system.
 
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...in-Alexandria-Woman-Remembered-291120161.html

Luminarias burned brightly around the Lodato home in Alexandria on Friday night as neighbors remembered the beloved music teacher who was killed there a year ago, on Feb. 6, 2014...

Nowhere is Lodato's imprint more visible than in the Music Together program she led for two decades... in the painful days after Lodato's death, the teachers huddled and decided they were committed to continuing the program. "We didn't know what the Lodato family would want, whether to keep it going or not, and they quickly made it known that they did, in her memory"...

A permanent tribute to Ruthanne Lodato has also recently been created. Some Music Together families commissioned a stained glass window at Del Ray United Methodist Church where the program is housed. It will be dedicated at a ceremony Feb. 17 at 6:30 p.m.
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