Jessie Geneva Havens, 52, was killed after attending a dance at the American Legion Lodge in Marion, Virginia. On the night of May 28, 1983, she danced with a man who identified himself as David Tuggle and accepted his offer of a ride home. Jessie was not seen alive again by friends or family after that evening.

Her body was found four days later down an embankment. An autopsy determined she had been raped, sodomized, and suffered multiple injuries, including a bite mark on her breast; the cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the chest. Investigators traced the crime to Lem Davis Tuggle Jr., who was arrested after robbing a gas station. The .25 caliber automatic he carried was ballistically matched to the fatal bullet, and he directed authorities to where Jessie’s body was located after being read his Miranda rights.

Tuggle, who had been on parole for about four months after serving part of a 20-year sentence for a 1971 murder, was convicted in 1984 of capital murder and rape; the jury recommended the death penalty. Does anyone have memories of the American Legion dance that night or other information about Jessie’s last hours?