WASHINGTON — She was found murdered 34 years ago this week. Now Virginia State Police and Loudoun County detectives are revisiting the investigation into who killed Veronica Hepworth.
A driver found the 20-year-old woman’s partially clothed body on a cold February day in 1982. She was laying in a driveway along U.S. 50 near Gilbert’s Corner in Loudoun County, police say.
Cold case detectives say the brunette was last seen at the Fancy Dancer Bar on U.S. 1 in Fairfax County celebrating a friend’s birthday.
Hepworth’s last boyfriend is still considered a person of interest in her killing, and a forensic artist has produced an age progression sketch to give residents an idea of what he might look like now.
He is a white man with dark hair and would likely be in his mid-50s to early 60s today, investigators say.
They also want residents to look for a red pickup truck, possibly a late 1960s or 1970s model, that was seen near the farm where her body was left.
Anyone with information about Hepworth or the unidentified individual in the photograph is encouraged to call the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Fairfax Field Office at 703-376-1690 or the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office at 703-737-8487.
