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In the winter of 1984, a seventeen-year-old white female named Vicki Ripple was working at a High's Ice Cream store in Newport News, Virginia, when her life was tragically cut short. On January 31st, during what should have been a routine lunchtime shift on a busy city street, a man entered the store and shot the young nursing student once in the head. The brazen crime sent a wave of fear through the community, as it was not an isolated incident but part of a string of brutal murders that had be ...Read More
Victim Details

Vicki Ripple

Female

White / Caucasian

Newport News

VA

1984-01-31

17

Vicki

Ripple

01/07/2026