On a warm August evening in 2009, 18-year-old Heidi Lynn Childs, a Caucasian female and a sophomore at Virginia Tech, and her friend, 19-year-old David Metzler, drove to Caldwell Fields, a serene and isolated recreational area within the Jefferson National Forest. The two had met in high school through their church youth group and had recently begun dating as they both attended college. That evening, on August 26, 2009, in a gravel parking lot popular with students, their lives were tragically c
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