Linette Hillig, 34, was found dead behind a Norfolk, Virginia bingo parlor on March 5, 1998. Her body showed signs she had been run over, and investigators later linked her death to a confession by John Eric Armstrong, a former U.S. Navy sailor arrested in Detroit for multiple murders. Armstrong told police he had strangled Hillig and then run over her with his Jeep; the USS Nimitz had been in Newport News four days before her body was discovered, a timeline detail noted by investigators.

Norfolk police treated Armstrong’s statements as a significant lead and acknowledged the connection, but did not immediately name him as a suspect or file charges. Authorities elsewhere questioned the credibility of Armstrong’s broad confessions. Armstrong was tried and convicted for murders in Michigan and received a life sentence; whether his confession resolved Hillig’s case was left open.

Did anyone in Norfolk have contact with Linette in early March 1998 or remember seeing a Jeep near the bingo parlor around that time?