The FBI revealed Thursday that one of the nation’s most infamous serial rapists is considered the lead suspect in the mysterious double murder of a gay couple who’d been hiking inside Shenandoah National Park in 1996.
Authorities said that convicted rapist, Walter “Leo” Jackson, bound his victims’ hands with duct tape and sexually assaulted them before he slashed their throats and hid their bodies.
The brutality of the murders reverberated across Virginia and the nation as fears spread that Julianne M. Williams, 24, and her partner, Laura S. “Lollie” Winans, 26, were victims of a hate crime.
