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Edward Bruce Mears Jr.

Case from Oak-hall, VA dated Dec 04, 2021

Victim Details

Edward Bruce Mears Jr.

Male

White / Caucasian

Oak-hall

VA

2021-12-04

62

Edward

Bruce Mears Jr.

07/17/2026

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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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  • WTKR: Wife of man arrested in Dec. 2021 Eastern Shore homicide also charged with murder, arson
  • WTKR: Man charged with murder after arson, suspicious death on Eastern Shore
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