MURDERED DANIELLE DENNIS-TOWNE FOUND IN TRUNK

CHICAGO TEEN Danielle Dennis-Towne had hoped to join the military in the fall. Instead, she is lying dead in a Virginia morgue, allegedly murdered by a friend.
Cops say blood and personal items found on a rural trail have led them to charge Enrico Luciano Mascaro, 19, with murder in the death of his friend Dennis-Towne. The two had been reported missing and authorities have not yet ID'd the body but sources say it is pretty blonde, Danielle Dennis-Towne. The body was found in the trunk of
Mascaro's car in Clifton Forge, Virginia, expected to be indicted today by cops in North Carolina. The young woman had been visiting Mascaro and his parents in Nags Head. They had been friends in Chicago.
But when they disappeared, his parents called the cops and reported them missing. According to The Virginian-Pilot, a couple hiking in the area spotted the blood and personal items.
Kitty Hawk Police Chief David Ward said: "We went up there and discovered that it looked like a possible crime scene. There was stuff there that linked us to get into conversation with Nags Head. That's when we found out that they were working a missing persons. The two cases kind of collided at that point."
One of the Dennis-Towne's relatives said: "We're all just so sad. It's the worst nightmare a family can ever imagine."

VA. COP'S '84 SUICIDE REOPENED AS HOMICIDE PROBE

THE shots rang out in Gates County, North Carolina. It was March 1984. Three shots, then a fourth. For most of the past three decades, investigators believed the dead man lying face down in the creek had killed himself. He was Portsmouth, VA police officer Garland L. Joyner. Investigation revealed Joyner had killed imself over bad debts and had even pumped up his life insurance policies--tell tale signs of a suicide.
Resident Keith Mundie told the Virginian-Pilot: "The buttons from his shirt were laying on the bridge. His wallet, his cards, all of the paperwork from his wallet,
it was all floating in the creek. His wallet was out there, too. That won't no suicide."
And now, after all these years, apparently cops agree and have reopened the case as a homicide investigation. All cops are saying is that there are new leads. The dead policeman--by all accounts an excellent officer--told his wife Lillie he had been working on "something big." She never believed her husband had killed himself. She hired a private investigator - Billy Franklin from Virginia Beach - to report to the insurance company that carried the life insurance policies on her husband.
Franklin said at the time: "I've seen dog-biting cases that were worked better than this one.
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