Stunning Brutality, Shocking Stupidity

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On 22 May 1979 nine-year-old Larry Wayne Perry disappeared from Dumfries. Larry's parents had divorced and he was living with his maternal grandparents, Mary and John Perry, in a trailer while the divorce was settled. He was in the special education programme at Dumfries Elementary School and, as the episode describes it, would today be called mildly autistic. He ate supper with his grandparents, had leftover ice-cream cake for dessert, and went outside at about eight in the evening, the day after his ninth birthday. He was last seen near a blue and white Ford Bronco on a dirt path off Old Stage Coach Road that led to the power lines, a utility right-of-way between Interstate 95 and Route 234.

The family searched for a couple of hours and called the police at about 11.30 that night. In 1979 the Prince William County police did not treat a missing child as an emergency; they assumed Larry was a runaway and did not search until the following afternoon, and the woods behind the trailer produced nothing. Mary Perry complained that the police moved too slowly and did not stick with the search. Within a week the criminal investigations department took the case over, but the investigators said they were stretched by a triple homicide, and the case went nowhere for years.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He told police he had seen Larry there but had left at about 9.30 and did not know where the boy went. He offered to join the searches and even drove Larry's grandfather, John Perry, around in his Bronco; Perry later said the vehicle was immaculate, that he saw a holstered gun in the front seat, and that he could not wait to get out of the car. It was seven weeks before the police brought in a canine search unit, because, as the episode puts it, the department did not know that sniffer dogs existed. Alice Stanley of the Virginia Search and Rescue Dog Association said the dogs would have been more effective earlier.

A polygraph in March 1980 was inconclusive, as were later ones. In 1981 there was a reported sighting of Larry and Mary Perry travelled to Bluefield, Virginia, twice, believing a relative might be holding him. this part of the story is covered for now In August 1982 an anonymous tip named him in Larry's disappearance. He came in and, faced with the claim that someone had told the police what happened, gave an account: he had been target shooting, had put his nine-millimetre pistol on the bonnet of the Bronco, and Larry had picked it up and shot himself in the chest. He said he panicked, drove away, came back that night, dragged the body into the woods, put it in a ravine and covered it with leaves and branches. On 19 September 1982 bones were found about a hundred yards from the spot he described. details of the account remain covered until revealed

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In the late 1980s and into 1990, authorities in Stafford County investigated a series of abductions of teenage boys. None was killed, but all described a Rambo-like man in camouflage and a red bandana who handcuffed them to trees in the woods and tortured them with a stun gun. On 16 June 1990 fifteen-year-old Alexander Stanko was killed in woods off Cardinal Drive in Woodbridge, close to where Larry Perry had disappeared. Alex had just finished ninth grade at Potomac High School, sang in the choir, played soccer and pool, and loved riding his dirt bike. His family had moved to Manassas but had come back to their old house in Woodbridge to collect the things they had left behind. His mother, Gale, usually did not let him ride alone, but that day she let him go to catch up with friends. He rode into the woods at about two in the afternoon; half an hour or an hour later his father, Attila, heard two gunshots, which were not unusual in the area.

Alex did not come back. The next morning police searched the perimeter of the woods. details of the account remain covered until revealed A man in camouflage walked towards him, turned and ran into the woods, knelt down for a few seconds, then walked deeper in and back out again. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He first denied being there the day before, then admitted it when Dillon said he had seen the vehicle and its tag. this part of the story is covered for now Dillon went to the spot where the man had knelt and found a pair of black tennis shoes. details of the account remain covered until revealed

The autopsy showed Alex had been handcuffed to a tree, beaten, cut with a machete, shocked repeatedly on the genitals with a 50,000-volt stun gun and sexually assaulted before he was shot with a nine-millimetre automatic. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now A search of his father's house on 20 June found the murder weapon, a stun gun, handcuffs, ammunition and more than sixty photographs of young boys, many taken without their knowledge. Alex's motorcycle and helmet had been taken from the woods by a group of young people drinking and swimming nearby, who handed them in on the Monday after they heard the news.

details of the account remain covered until revealed He also told inmates he had killed a boy abducted from a McDonald's in Lake Ridge and another from a convenience store in Louisa County, and that he had killed a third person; prosecutors could not identify the third victim. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed Prosecutors argued that he had taken Alex's wallet with two twenty-dollar bills, his shoes, his motorcycle and his helmet. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The episode says the electric chair was named but that Virginia would use lethal injection.

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Gale said that if it helped him die with hope it had some merit; Attila said it did nothing to ease his anger. Larry Wayne Perry has never been found.