MAR 21, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: New ‘movement’ in search for Virginia woman missing since 2011 | WTOP
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Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman told WTOP, “We have had movement as recently as last week” in the eight-year search to determine who killed 21-year-old Bethany Decker, who was five months pregnant when last seen by her live-in boyfriend in their Ashburn, Virginia, apartment.
Though not specifying the development, Chapman said it came after a January search warrant of Decker’s Facebook account.
Soon after Decker’s disappearance on Jan. 29, 2011, investigators learned she had been in an abusive relationship with Ronald Roldan, while her husband, Emile Decker, an Army National Guardsman, was deployed in Afghanistan.
Loudoun County investigators have never charged Roldan or named him as a suspect, but have said he is no longer willing to answer questions about Decker’s disappearance. Detectives have said “there are no other suspects” other than Roldan in Decker’s disappearance.
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Since 2011, better technology has helped investigators pinpoint the origination of suspicious online activity, providing Loudoun detectives with new tools to re-examine Decker’s account
Chapman said, “Ronald Roldan still remains a person of interest, and we’re still looking into every aspect of what may have happened, concerning his last contact with her.”
Roldan is currently serving time in a North Carolina prison. He had been charged with attempted murder after a 2014 domestic violence attack on girlfriend Vickey Willoughby in her home in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
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When he was convicted, North Carolina prosecutors said after Roldan finishes his prison time, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will take him into custody for deportation proceedings to Bolivia.
Loudoun County sources expect a grand jury be asked to indict Roldan for Decker’s murder. Her remains have never been found, and investigators have never said they recovered any forensic evidence of murder.
“It’s going to primarily, I would imagine, be a circumstantial case,” said Chapman. “You have to compile all the evidence, and see where it all leads, and make sure you have enough to achieve a conviction.”