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BY JANET S. SPENCER
HOMETOWN NEWS
Two of the 10 unsolved cold cases given increased attention by Cherokee County sheriff’s investigators include two victims of murder from Blacksburg.
Sheila Patterson Manley’s body was found on Dec. 11, 1996, at the 100-mile marker exit ramp off I-85 at Highway 5.
Her husband, Clarence Manley, said at a news conference called by Cherokee County Sheriff Steve Mueller last week he has renewed hope that investigators in the new administration obtain the leads they require to identify a suspect and make an arrest.
Mueller, who took office in January, has divided the cases into quarters of the next year for his investigators to concentrate on solving.
In any quarter, new information that is received in any case will be pursued, Mueller said.
Manley said his wife was 19 years old when she was killed.
“She would be 34 years old now. I was out of town when it happened. That was 15 years ago. I’ve had no contact with law enforcement about the investigation after the first five years until now. I’ve raised three kids. My wife never got to see her grandbabies,” he said.
The second cold case from Blacksburg is the investigation into the death on Nov. 5, 2002, of John C. Smith at 272 Ninety-Nine Island Road.
No one from Smith’s family attended the news conference, although Mueller said more than half of the victim’s families did send a representative.
For the rest of the story, read this week’s Blacksburg Times.
A poster with unsolved cases, including two from Blacksburg, lines the training wall at the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office.
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