by Tim Carrington | Aug 18, 2025 | People, Sidebar, Top Story
Former FBI, CIA director and Rappahannock resident dies at 101 Judge William H. Webster, former director of the FBI and the CIA died last Friday at 101, and friends, policy analysts and national media began an extended reflection on his person and record in...
by Ireland Hayes | Aug 15, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
After hearing nearly a dozen witnesses lay out the prosecution’s case against Chester Brown in the murder of Washington resident Doris Critzer — including new DNA evidence — a Rappahannock County District Court judge on Tuesday found enough probable cause to send the...
by Ireland Hayes | Jul 21, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
From what appeared to be a classroom in the Lunenburg Correctional Center in Victoria, Va., accused murderer Chester Brown, 64, appeared by video call in Rappahannock County District Court Tuesday for a less than three-minute hearing — one his attorney, Ryan Rakness,...
by Ireland Hayes | Jun 11, 2025 | Crime and Courts
Chester Brown made his first court appearance via video from prison Tuesday after being charged last week with first-degree murder and strangulation of Doris Critzer, 74, a Washington resident who was found dead in her home in August 2023. Brown, 64, formerly from...
by Ireland Hayes | Jun 5, 2025 | Crime and Courts
Chester Brown, identified by law enforcement as a “person of interest” early on in the investigation of the murder of Washington resident Doris Critzer, has been charged with her murder almost two years later. Brown, 64, a former Washington resident, has been...