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Date published: 7/4/2002
Richard Marc Evonitz stayed home from work the day the Lisk sisters vanished and left early the afternoon Sofia Silva disappeared, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. The prime suspect in the slayings of the Spotsylvania County girls left work at noon on Sept. 9, 1996, telling his supervisors at Walter Grinders Inc. he had a dentist's appointment, sources said. Sometime after 4:30 p.m. that day, 16-year-old Sofia disappeared while doing homework on her front porch in Oak Grove Terrace subdivision. Evonitz called in sick the next day. On May 1, 1997, the ex-Navy man called in sick again. That day, Kristin Lisk, 15, and her sister Kati, 12, vanished sometime after their buses dropped them off after school. Their father, worried that he couldn't reach them by phone, came home at 4 p.m. to find the contents of Kristin's book bag strewn around the yard, but no sign of his daughters. On Oct. 14, 1996, workers breaking up a beaver dam found Sofia's body in a King George County creek. On May 6, 1997, a highway worker mowing grass spotted the Lisk sisters' bodies tied together and snagged to a tree in the South Anna River. Physical evidence linked the slayings. Authorities are now anxiously awaiting the results of DNA and other forensic lab tests to see if Evonitz is the killer they've been hunting for so long. The information about Evon-itz's work schedule came from three law-enforcement officials, two of whom are involved in the case. The third has worked on the investigation in the past. All agreed to speak only on condition that their names not be used. Walter Grinders president Ditmar Weselin declined comment. Spotsylvania sheriff's Maj. How-ard Smith, leader of the Lisk-Silva Task Force, said investigators have copies of Evonitz's work schedules, but he would not discuss the records. The work schedules add to a growing pile of circumstantial evidence collected since Evonitz shot himself to death last week as police closed in to arrest him in connection with the abduction and rape of a 15-year-old South Carolina girl. Evonitz lived in Spotsylvania County at the time of the slayings. He moved to the Columbia, S.C., area in 1999.
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