Sergeant John Elliott
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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But Vicki was a college graduate. She worked as a program analyst at the Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., and she was a single mother. She split time between her family's house in Alexandria, and she had a boyfriend at the time, James Hill, who lived in Siouxland, Maryland, which is in Prince George's County.
Her and James Hill drove James Hill's vehicle to a parking lot located in Washington, D.C., which was at RFK, which is still standing there. It's where the Redskins used to play. It was a commuter lot. They would park the car there and then they would get on a metro train, take that downtown to the Department of Agriculture where they would go to work.
Vicki got the keys from James Hill to return to the car, and then the plan was for Vicki to get James Hill's car and then come pick him up later at work when he was done.
She never showed up to work to pick James Hill up. James Hill returned to the parking lot at RFK, didn't find his car, and couldn't find Vicki.
He looked throughout the night, checking with family in various places where she could be, but just wasn't able to locate her.
The indication is very unusual for her to be gone and no one know where she is. That was extremely unusual. She was very dependable, reliable, had a nice government job. No identifiers or indications of any type of high-risk lifestyle or questionable behavior. Nothing.
There was some mixed interviews from co-workers about James Hill. One co-worker said that she believed that Vicky was in an abusive relationship with James Hill because he was an alcoholic. That another person would say that their relationship was good. It was nothing clear and convincing in regards to coming to a solid opinion in regards to how James Hill was.
They questioned James Hill very detailed, very thoroughly. They searched his apartment that him and Vicky shared.
And then James Hill, anytime the investigators asked him to do something, he was overly cooperative and provided any assistance he could with attempting to locate Vicki.
I think they did a good job. They later went and tried finding and subpoenaed bank records to see if there's any transactions with any of her money. They looked at missing persons cases or unidentified people in other jurisdictions. They called hospitals.
They did everything I think they could with what they knew at the time to be proven and effective investigative strategies, but it was very limited. Of course, not like what it is today.
The evening of August 29th, a young man, 12 or 13 years old at the time, is riding his bicycle on Metropolitan Church Road. As he's riding his bicycle, he looks over into the wood line and he sees what he thinks to be a body. It's an adult female laying in the woods and then he runs to one of his family members' house that's nearby and the police are called.
She was about 20 feet off the roadway, inside the wood line. If you looked at the scene photos, you might be able to see her laying on the ground. She wasn't concealed in a manner to try and completely hide the body, but she was concealed in a manner to where not easily seen.
She was laying on her back. Her dress was up above her waist. She was naked from the waist down, and her arms were at her side, almost like in a boxer stance. And I think one of the original reports the detective wrote is as if thwarting off an attacker.
They were right on the border, and our investigators find out that Prince George's County has a missing person's case. They come together, exchange information, and they ask to meet with Vicki's parents at the sheriff's office. They show her pictures and identifications made that way.
The entire crime scene, did a good job canvassing it. However, all the evidence and what our crime scene would be would be Vicky herself in her clothes.
The clothes she was wearing at the time she was found were recovered and retained and preserved.
Vicki has no ties to Charles County at all. The original investigators were trying to figure out, okay, what's the tie here? And the original investigators figured that, unfortunately, I ain't using this term, she was abducted to Washington, D.C., and dumped in Maryland.
I talked to one of the original investigators. He said this is like one of those cases he never forgot. They looked at everything they possibly could and just they could not come up with any solid leads. There are several other cases in D.C. of similar patterns, but they can never tie it in or prove or establish that those cases were related to Vicky's murder.
I don't know if they thought that back then, but they had enough conscience to believe and preserved every single piece of clothing that she had. Unfortunately, you see across the country that evidence just gets thrown out because they think it's old or cases are not solvable.
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