On the morning of January 29, 1993, 40-year-old Coy M. White was killed in his home in Chatham, Virginia. Around 6:00 a.m., an acquaintance, Ronald Lee Fitzgerald, broke into the residence armed with a gun and confronted White’s 13-year-old daughter, Claudia. When White returned home, a confrontation occurred and Fitzgerald shot White in the neck, severing his spinal cord and causing immediate death.

After the murder, Fitzgerald forced Claudia to retrieve her father’s wallet and car keys, then abducted her. She was driven to a remote area, assaulted, and locked in the trunk of the car; she later managed to escape. The same day Fitzgerald also killed a taxi driver, Hugh E. Morrison, and committed additional abductions and rapes before being taken into custody.

Fitzgerald was indicted for multiple charges including the capital murder of Coy M. White during a robbery, robbery, breaking and entering, and abduction, and was found guilty at trial. Does anyone have information about Coy White, his family, or that Chatham neighborhood in 1993?