Late November 1996 ended in tragedy for Danville, Virginia. Archie D. Moore Jr., 33, was found dead in his apartment on November 28, 1996, two days after he was murdered. Police were alerted after Moore failed to pick up his sister from the airport. Officers discovered his body placed in a closet with a plastic bag over his head and a gunshot wound to the head listed as the cause of death.

Investigators linked Moore’s killing to 18-year-old Percy Levar Walton after witnesses reported seeing Walton driving Moore’s car. Evidence later connected Walton to the earlier murders of an elderly couple, Elizabeth and Jessie Kendrick. Walton pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including four counts of capital murder, robbery, and burglary, and in 1997 was convicted and sentenced to death.

Family and the community were left with the aftermath of three lives taken; if anyone knew Archie, his routines, or saw his car in late November 1996, please come forward with information.