Police name killer in 1990 I-81 murder

[Indigo Ace]

Kind of unsatisfying, since the suspect named is dead. From the
Kingport [TN] Times-News--

Police name killer in 1990 I-81 murder
Thursday, September 22, 2005

By BECKY CAMPBELL
Times-News

Police initially believed that Tammy Salyer was shot from a passing
vehicle as she traveled on Interstate 81 about midnight on Feb. 28,
1990.

BRISTOL, Va. - There is new information in an interstate killing here
that went unsolved for 15 years.

Bristol Virginia Police Chief Bill Price said Wednesday that
investigators now know who killed Tammy Salyer as the young woman
drove home from work on Feb. 28, 1990.

"Based upon an extensive investigation over the past 15 years,
including information provided by witnesses, BVPD determined that Judy
Annette Blanton Weaver, formerly of the Benhams area of Washington
County, Va., and Bristol, Tenn., shot and killed Ms. Salyer," Price
said in a department press release.

Weaver died in 1997, prior to investigators learning about her
involvement in Salyer's death.

Salyer, 18, was traveling north on Interstate 81 just south of Exit 4
between 11:50 p.m. and 12:10 a.m. on Feb. 28, 1990. Investigators said
at the time that Salyer was shot from a passing vehicle, but that
theory has now apparently changed.

"It appears that Tammy Salyer was followed up I-81 as she returned
home from her employment at Burger King on the Volunteer Parkway in
Bristol, Tenn. She pulled off to the side of the interstate in
response to flashing headlights from the Weaver vehicle," Price said.

"Judy Weaver removed a pistol from the console of her vehicle, walked
to the side of the Salyer vehicle and made one shot through the
driver's side window into the head of Ms. Salyer."

Somehow, Salyer's vehicle traveled through the interstate median,
across southbound lanes and ran into a tree.

"That aspect of the case is still under investigation," Price said.

He said investigators recently informed the Salyer family about the
identification of the teen's killer.

"The investigation is ongoing to determine the identity of other
individuals who may have been involved either as principle in the
second degree prior to the murder or as accessories after the fact,"
Price said.

He declined to comment any further on the case.

http://www.timesnews.net/article.dna?_StoryID=3549314

[Mary]

Post by Indigo Ace
Kind of unsatisfying, since the suspect named is dead.

Unsatisfying even moreso because they don't bother to even speculate on
motive. Very bizarre case. I remember when it happened.

mary.

From the

Post by Indigo Ace
Kingport [TN] Times-News--
Police name killer in 1990 I-81 murder
Thursday, September 22, 2005
By BECKY CAMPBELL
Times-News
Police initially believed that Tammy Salyer was shot from a passing
vehicle as she traveled on Interstate 81 about midnight on Feb. 28,
1990.
BRISTOL, Va. - There is new information in an interstate killing here
that went unsolved for 15 years.
Bristol Virginia Police Chief Bill Price said Wednesday that
investigators now know who killed Tammy Salyer as the young woman
drove home from work on Feb. 28, 1990.
"Based upon an extensive investigation over the past 15 years,
including information provided by witnesses, BVPD determined that Judy
Annette Blanton Weaver, formerly of the Benhams area of Washington
County, Va., and Bristol, Tenn., shot and killed Ms. Salyer," Price
said in a department press release.
Weaver died in 1997, prior to investigators learning about her
involvement in Salyer's death.
Salyer, 18, was traveling north on Interstate 81 just south of Exit 4
between 11:50 p.m. and 12:10 a.m. on Feb. 28, 1990. Investigators said
at the time that Salyer was shot from a passing vehicle, but that
theory has now apparently changed.
"It appears that Tammy Salyer was followed up I-81 as she returned
home from her employment at Burger King on the Volunteer Parkway in
Bristol, Tenn. She pulled off to the side of the interstate in
response to flashing headlights from the Weaver vehicle," Price said.
"Judy Weaver removed a pistol from the console of her vehicle, walked
to the side of the Salyer vehicle and made one shot through the
driver's side window into the head of Ms. Salyer."
Somehow, Salyer's vehicle traveled through the interstate median,
across southbound lanes and ran into a tree.
"That aspect of the case is still under investigation," Price said.
He said investigators recently informed the Salyer family about the
identification of the teen's killer.
"The investigation is ongoing to determine the identity of other
individuals who may have been involved either as principle in the
second degree prior to the murder or as accessories after the fact,"
Price said.
He declined to comment any further on the case.
http://www.timesnews.net/article.dna?_StoryID=3549314
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