On the quiet evening of December 4, 2021, in the small community of Oak Hall, Virginia, the life of 62-year-old Edward Bruce Mears Jr. was violently cut short. A musician and a carpenter, Mears was a native of New Church and a familiar face in the area. That night, the New Church Fire Department was dispatched to a residential fire at his home on Lankford Highway. As the firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze, they made a grim discovery inside the charred remains of the house: the body of E
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