A Man Has Been Charged In Connection With A 20 Year Old Murder In Abingdon Virginia. Derek Wayne Journell Is Charged With Second Degree Murder Of His Then Girlfriend Who Died Under Suspicious Circumstances. The Case Had Gone Cold Until Journell Came Into The Roanoke City Police Department Recently And Confessed To Committing A Violent Crime 20 Years Ago In Abingdon. Police Chief John Holbrook Told Us….
Journell Is Being Held Without Bond In A Roanoke Jail. He’s Expected To Be Brought Back To Washington County To Answer The Murder Charge.