by Ireland Hayes | Jan 23, 2026 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
Will trial be elsewhere in Doris Critzer murder case? A Virginia Public Defender Office has agreed to represent Chester Brown, who has been charged with first-degree murder and strangulation in the death of longtime Washington resident Doris Critzer. “It looks like...
by Ireland Hayes | Jan 21, 2026 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
Three defendants indicted by grand jury A two-day jury trial was put on the schedule for August in Rappahannock County Circuit Court Monday for Edward “Eddie” Fletcher Jr., a Flint Hill contractor charged with embezzlement and failure to perform promised construction...
by Ireland Hayes | Dec 18, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
A Rappahannock County District Court judge decided there was not enough “probable cause” to send a malicious wounding charge against Kenneth Allison to a grand jury after hearing testimony about a stabbing in Flint Hill in October. “I don’t think there’s enough...
by Ireland Hayes | Dec 12, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
Chester Brown’s wish for a new attorney was granted in Rappahannock County Circuit Court Monday, but a change of venue request was not accepted for his trial on charges of murdering Doris Critzer in her Washington home in August 2023. Brown’s attorney Ryan Rakness...
by Ireland Hayes | Dec 1, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
‘We are really, seriously having a problem’ he tells judge Chester Brown had his day — and say — in Rappahannock County Circuit Court Thursday, airing frustrations about his lawyer and how the murder case against him is being handled. Brown, 65, a former Washington...
