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Detectives from across the region to meet with Lisk-Silva Task Force to see if suspect Richard Marc Evonitz can be linked to other crimes. Date published: 7/11/2002
Detectives from 14 law-enforcement agencies across the region plan to meet Monday to discuss any unsolved crimes that could be linked to suspected serial killer Richard Marc Evonitz. The task force investigating the slayings of Sofia Silva and Kristin and Kati Lisk called the meeting to discuss the former Spotsylvania County resident's travels and "modus operandi." "We feel it's important to share what information we've gathered with other local jurisdictions," said Spotsylvania sheriff's Maj. Howard Smith, who leads the Lisk-Silva task force. The meeting will include investigators from Fauquier, Caroline, Orange, Louisa, Culpeper, King George, Prince William, Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria and Louisa counties, along with Virginia State Police, Charles County, Md., police and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service at Quantico Marine Corps Base. Gregg McCrary, a retired FBI profiler who lives in Spotsylvania, said investigators will likely look at Evonitz in crimes ranging from rape and murder to indecent exposure. "They're doing what they need to do--a timeline of every minute of every day of his adult life," McCrary said yesterday. "They have to figure out how wide a geographic area Evonitz would hunt for his victims. "There are probably rapes and other sex crimes he may be responsible for that are much less dramatic. He certainly was not behaving himself all this time." Authorities yesterday wouldn't say whether they have physical evidence linking Evonitz to the deaths of Silva and the Lisk sisters. Smith said the FBI Laboratory in Washington has reported back on some of the evidence seized after Evonitz--wanted for the kidnapping and rape of a 15-year-old South Carolina girl--killed himself June 27, but he declined to release any details. The 38-year-old South Carolina native became the prime suspect in the Lisk-Silva case when detectives raided his apartment outside Columbia, S.C., and found a May 2, 1997, copy of The Free Lance-Star with its lead story on the Lisk sisters' disappearance. Investigators also found handwritten notes indicating Evonitz stalked several young girls in the Fredericksburg area when he lived here between 1993 and 1999. Circumstantial evidence against him mounted when detectives learned he wasn't at work at the times of the killings. Forensic evidence showed the same man killed 16-year-old Sofia Silva in 1996 and 15-year-old Kristin Lisk and her 12-year-old sister, Kati, in 1997. Investigators also have DNA evidence in the case they believe belongs to the killer. "We won't be releasing any information on the lab results until all of the testing is finished," Smith said. "We feel it would be better to wait until we have everything in and we will give it all to the public at one time."
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