In the pre-dawn hours of October 3, 1987, a sense of dread settled over a home in Richmond's Woodland Heights neighborhood. Dr. Susan Hellams, a 32-year-old female neurosurgery resident, was discovered dead by her husband in their residence. He found her partially clothed body on the floor of their bedroom closet. The scene was one of extreme violence; she had been bound, beaten, and sexually assaulted. The cause of death was determined to be ligature strangulation, with two belts found wrapped
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