Two people were found dead inside a Woodbridge townhouse on January 2, 2001. Thirty-year-old Robert Finch had been shot multiple times; 25-year-old Dana Thrall had been severely beaten and also shot several times. The violence took place in what had been a quiet neighborhood and shattered two families.

Investigators focused on Larry Bill Elliott, a former Army counterintelligence officer. Prosecutors said the motive was Elliott’s infatuation with Rebecca Gragg, who had an ongoing custody dispute with Finch over their two children; Elliott had met Gragg online after she advertised for a sugar daddy and reportedly spent substantial money on her before the killings. Elliott was arrested and tried; his first conviction was overturned because of juror misconduct, and a second jury later again found him guilty.

What details about the period leading up to January 2, 2001, could help explain how the killings unfolded, or who might have seen something unusual in the neighborhood?