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This is probably not the correct place to ask this question, but any help and or suggestions would be appreciated.
I am not 100% sure of the dates but I know that this incident was in one of the two time ranges.
Mid July-Early Sept 1970 or March-June 13TH 1972.
I am stretching both of these time frames a little. I was TDY at USCG Group Norfolk VA. in the 1970 time period, and I was at the same Base before my RELAD.
While there one of my jobs was as engineer on our small boats. We responded to a report of a body floating in the Elizabeth River, me and two other guys that I have no
clue what their names were. The body that we recovered as I remember was a black male, dressed in a suit, with a holstered handgun. He was floating face down and when we retrieved him he had a gunshot to the back of the head and was faceless. We radioed it in and the Police? don't know what department, met us shortly after we got to the dock. I have three recurrent dreams on an all to frequent basis and I can see the image of this one as I type.
Through email I turned to the Norfolk Police Department thinking surely that would have a record of this. It was obviously a murder. Through a ten day period I emailed back and forth only to be told that they have records from that time period, but nothing like I am describing.
In those days everything was in the newspaper, but I never seen a story on this.
I know that it happened I was there can anyone suggest another avenue to find a report on this.
I also have contacted Portsmouth Police but the have not responded.
I have not had any luck trying to find information through the USCG.
Thanks in advance.
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