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Next week the man suspected in the 1982 homicide will stand in Culpeper County Circuit court to face the charges.
Currently serving a life sentence for rape, Kenneth Maurice Tinsley could face the death penalty if convicted on charges of capital murder, rape and forcible sodomy.
This isn’t the first time the state has tried a man for Williams’ murder.
A year had passed after the murder with no leads. Then on May 21, 1983, Fauquier County sheriff's deputies arrested a mentally challenged farmhand who had drunkenly broken in to a neighbor’s house to steal a gun. His name was Earl Washington Jr.
The call brought Special Agent Reese Wilmore of the Virginia State Police to Fauquier, along with Lee Hart, then a lieutenant for the Culpeper police. The two interrogated the 22-year-old Washington, but no recording of that interrogation exists, according to Washington’s lawyers.
Washington confessed to five different crimes, including two unsolved rapes, while he was in custody, according to Eric M. Freedman, a member of Washington’s legal team. Only the Williams murder stuck.
Hart, now Sheriff of Culpeper County, declined to comment, due to Washington’s ongoing civil suit against the
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