Capital offense: Jury sends a message
Did Sarah Louise Crawford still love her estranged husband on the late November day when she died? Did she lie to her family, friends, and coworkers, telling them she was finished with an abusive relationship, when she was secretly planning a reconciliation? Did the seemingly responsible Manassas office manager decide to skip work and appointments without notice, leave her beloved cat with no food or water, and miss a date with a new suitor to instead join the man against whom she had a protective order for a spontaneous weekend getaway to Charlottesville?
Carting a Styrofoam cooler– like the ones that carry hearts to be transplanted– the post-doctoral researcher startles me by hopping on the Charlottesville Free Trolley near the University of Virginia hospital. Seeing me eyeing her cargo, the 30-ish woman explains in a cheerful British accent, "not organs, just blood samples. I'm delivering them after lunch."
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