Judy Ann McDonald was 24 when she was killed on January 20, 1989, in Salem, Virginia. She had been with Dennis Wayne Eaton earlier that day after he had murdered two men, Ripley Marston Sr., 68, and Walter Custer Jr., 26, in Shenandoah County. Eaton drove away in Marston’s vehicle with McDonald as his companion.

While on Interstate 81 a Virginia State Trooper, Jerry Hines, spotted and pursued the car. Eaton fired on the trooper, fatally wounding Hines. The vehicle then crashed into a utility pole; as law enforcement closed in, Eaton shot and killed McDonald and then shot himself in the right eye. Eaton survived, was later convicted of the three murders including McDonald’s, received life sentences for those killings and a death sentence for Trooper Hines’s murder, and was executed by lethal injection on June 18, 1998.

Are there witnesses or family members who can add details about Judy Ann McDonald’s life or the events that day?