Waverly Leroy Cameron Jr was 22 when he was killed in Portsmouth, Virginia, in late summer 1996. He went missing for several days; investigators estimate he was shot to death about one and a half to two weeks before his body was found. On the afternoon of September 6, 1996, at about 5:45 p.m., his body was discovered in a wooded area off Interstate 264 at the Effingham Street on-ramp. The medical examiner determined the cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the back of his head.

The Virginia State Police opened a homicide investigation and later moved the matter into cold case files. No suspects or arrests are listed in connection with the killing, and the motive and the events of Cameron’s final days remain unresolved. If anyone knew Waverly, saw him in late August 1996, or has information about that stretch of I-264 near Effingham Street, please come forward.