Jon Sham

NORFOLK, Va. — Jermiah Copeland was sentenced on June 9 to serve another 43 years in prison, on top of the year he's been held in the brig, for the murder of fellow sailor Angelina Resendiz at Naval Station Norfolk last May. Copeland pleaded guilty to Resendiz's unpremeditated murder, describing in detail to the military court how he strangled her to death in his barracks, hid her body in a duffle bag, and then left her in the woods near a Norfolk school.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — In November 1981, 23-year-old Janice Starr, a cadet in the Old Dominion University ROTC program, was murdered in her Chesapeake apartment by her instructor, Dwight Beddingfield. But before investigators could confirm Beddingfield — who was married with kids — committed the crime, he intentionally crashed a plane near an airport in Chesapeake, killing himself.

NORFOLK, Va. — In a bond hearing Thursday for David Varela, the Navy reservist accused of murdering his wife earlier this year before fleeing the U.S., prosecutors outlined disturbing new details about the alleged crime as they punctuated their argument for keeping him behind bars while he awaits trial.