John Runge

It was around noon on May the 5th, 2004.

The water was calm and it was hot outside.

A murder was the last thing on my mind that day until we got the call about the suitcase.

My name is John Runge with the Virginia Beach Police Department Special Operations Marine Patrol.

I patrolled Chesapeake Bay, the oceanfront, and the intercoastal waterway.

I got a call from a fisherman stating that he had found a suitcase floating in the Chesapeake Bay.

I opened the bag up, unzipped it, noticed that there were trash bags, black colored trash bags, in the suitcase.

Once I peeled the trash bags back, I saw a pair of human legs from the knees down.

This is a general area where the third suitcase was located by a fisherman and his wife.

At that time, pretty much everybody knew if you found a suitcase floating out here, what was going to be in it.

I immediately knew that his wife had done it.