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On a tragic day in Halifax County, Virginia, 64-year-old Patsy Ayers Cole was killed in a brutal triple homicide that also claimed the lives of her husband, Thomas Wesley Cole, 64, and her brother-in-law, Walter Stanley Cole, 56. The horrific events of July 3, 2002, stemmed from a long-simmering dispute over a shared driveway with a neighbor and distant relative, James Bryant Hudson.

The conflict reached its deadly climax when Walter and Thomas Cole encountered Hudson's truck blocking the ...Read More
Victim Details

Patsy Ayers Cole

Female

Halifax

VA

2002-07-03

64

Patsy

Ayers Cole

01/07/2026