ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, July 12, 1996 TAG: 9607120061
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-1 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: HARRISONBURG
AN AUTOPSY OFFERED no help in determining exactly how Alicia Showalter Reynolds died.
An autopsy has failed to show a cause of death for Alicia Showalter Reynolds, whose body was found in a Culpeper County clear-cut two months after she disappeared.
State police spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell declined to say Wednesday why the cause of death could not be determined.
Reynolds, 25, of Baltimore, vanished March 2 while traveling from her home to Charlottesville to meet her mother. Her car was abandoned on U.S. 29 about two miles south of Culpeper, some 15 miles from where her body was discovered May 7. Police have been looking for a man 35 to 45 years old, 5-10 to 6 feet tall, medium build with light-to medium-brown hair with a reddish tint. He was believed to be driving a small, dark pickup truck.
Reynolds was seen talking to such a man before her disappearance.
Other women reported that a man matching the description stopped or attempted to stop them along U.S. 29 in the two months before Reynolds disappeared. He told the women they had car problems and offered them rides.
- Associated Press
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