Peter Roy was a Danish immigrant who had come to Fairfax from Minnesota in 1912. In November of that year he purchased two parcels of land near the current intersection of Old Keene Mill Road and Sydenstricker Road, totaling 180 acres. Roy, a widower, became a prosperous farmer and an active member of the Lee Chapel Methodist Church. With him resided his eldest daughter Caroline, her husband William K. Jerman, and his younger daughter Eva.
On the morning of Aug. 4, 1918, Eva Roy, age 14, left her home near Burke, at around 9:00 a.m. to tend her father's small herd of cows. When Eva failed to return home that evening her father began a search. Neighbors were soon enlisted to help, but it was some 24 hours later that her body was found tied to a tree in the woods near the old Hanse House, her apron strings tight about her throat. The county coroner, Dr. W. I. Robey, concluded that the girl had been "Brutally assaulted" before being strangled to death.
Peter Roy died on January 22, 1938, and was interred in Lee Chapel Cemetery next to his youngest daughter. Her murderer was never found.
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/bunny/bunnyprint.htm
From Factchecker: In September 1918, 20 year old Benjamin Rubin of Chicago admitted to choking Eva Roy to death and then leaving her remains leaned against a tree. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1918-09-20/ed-1/seq-1/
On the morning of Aug. 4, 1918, Eva Roy, age 14, left her home near Burke, at around 9:00 a.m. to tend her father's small herd of cows. When Eva failed to return home that evening her father began a search. Neighbors were soon enlisted to help, but it was some 24 hours later that her body was found tied to a tree in the woods near the old Hanse House, her apron strings tight about her throat. The county coroner, Dr. W. I. Robey, concluded that the girl had been "Brutally assaulted" before being strangled to death.
Peter Roy died on January 22, 1938, and was interred in Lee Chapel Cemetery next to his youngest daughter. Her murderer was never found.
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/bunny/bunnyprint.htm
From Factchecker: In September 1918, 20 year old Benjamin Rubin of Chicago admitted to choking Eva Roy to death and then leaving her remains leaned against a tree. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1918-09-20/ed-1/seq-1/
Peter Roy was a Danish immigrant who had come to Fairfax from Minnesota in 1912. In November of that year he purchased two parcels of land near the current intersection of Old Keene Mill Road and Sydenstricker Road, totaling 180 acres. Roy, a widower, became a prosperous farmer and an active member of the Lee Chapel Methodist Church. With him resided his eldest daughter Caroline, her husband William K. Jerman, and his younger daughter Eva.
On the morning of Aug. 4, 1918, Eva Roy, age 14, left her home near Burke, at around 9:00 a.m. to tend her father's small herd of cows. When Eva failed to return home that evening her father began a search. Neighbors were soon enlisted to help, but it was some 24 hours later that her body was found tied to a tree in the woods near the old Hanse House, her apron strings tight about her throat. The county coroner, Dr. W. I. Robey, concluded that the girl had been "Brutally assaulted" before being strangled to death.
Peter Roy died on January 22, 1938, and was interred in Lee Chapel Cemetery next to his youngest daughter. Her murderer was never found.
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/bunny/bunnyprint.htm
From Factchecker: In September 1918, 20 year old Benjamin Rubin of Chicago admitted to choking Eva Roy to death and then leaving her remains leaned against a tree. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1918-09-20/ed-1/seq-1/
On the morning of Aug. 4, 1918, Eva Roy, age 14, left her home near Burke, at around 9:00 a.m. to tend her father's small herd of cows. When Eva failed to return home that evening her father began a search. Neighbors were soon enlisted to help, but it was some 24 hours later that her body was found tied to a tree in the woods near the old Hanse House, her apron strings tight about her throat. The county coroner, Dr. W. I. Robey, concluded that the girl had been "Brutally assaulted" before being strangled to death.
Peter Roy died on January 22, 1938, and was interred in Lee Chapel Cemetery next to his youngest daughter. Her murderer was never found.
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/bunny/bunnyprint.htm
From Factchecker: In September 1918, 20 year old Benjamin Rubin of Chicago admitted to choking Eva Roy to death and then leaving her remains leaned against a tree. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1918-09-20/ed-1/seq-1/
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