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As authorities study hundreds of pieces of evidence, none of it has eliminated Richard Marc Evonitz as a suspect in the Lisk-Silva killings, authorities say. Date published: 7/24/2002
The FBI is examining more than 600 pieces of Richard Marc Evonitz evidence--and authorities say none of the test results have eliminated him as a suspect in the Lisk-Silva slayings. "He's the hottest suspect we've ever had," Spotsylvania County sheriff's Maj. Howard Smith said yesterday. "But this is a phenomenal amount of evidence. We're collecting anything and everything and sending it to the lab. It's going to take a great deal of time." Smith said the Lisk-Silva Task Force has received word on some of the results, but he would not say how much of the evidence had been tested to date. Evonitz, 38, became the prime suspect in the slayings of Sofia Silva and Kristin and Kati Lisk when he abducted a 15-year-old South Carolina girl at gunpoint last month. He forced the girl into a storage container in the back of his car and drove her to his apartment in Richland County, S.C., where he kept her restrained and raped her. She escaped 18 hours later when Evonitz fell asleep. He fled before police arrived, but shot himself to death three days later after a high-speed chase in Sarasota, Fla. In his apartment and his cars, detectives found a 1997 copy of The Free Lance-Star with a story about the Lisk girls' disappearance. They also discovered handwritten notes about other young girls he had stalked in the Fredericksburg area. Since his death, investigators have seized evidence from four homes in the Fredericksburg area where Evonitz lived during his six years here and all of the vehicles he drove, Smith said. The FBI took blood samples after his death for DNA comparison. Evonitz left his job early on Oct. 9, 1996, the day 16-year-old Sofia vanished from her front porch in Spotsylvania's Oak Grove subdivision. He called in sick the next day. Sofia's body was found a month later in King George County. Evonitz called in sick again on May 1, 1997, the day 15-year-old Kristin Lisk and her 12-year-old sister, Kati, vanished from their front yard. A highway worker found their bodies floating in the South Anna River a week later. The FBI has assigned one examiner to the case full time, Smith said.
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