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Police find more links to Lisk-Silva
Investigators find newspaper reports, "meticulous" notes on Lisk-Silva case in suspect's South Carolina home.Date published: 6/30/2002
Newspaper clippings and notes found in the home of a suspected serial killer have further convinced Spotsylvania County authorities that they may finally be close to solving the slayings of three county girls. Authorities found a May 2, 1997, Free Lance-Star article about the disappearance of sisters Kristin and Kati Lisk when they searched the Columbia, S.C., home of 38-year-old Richard Marc Evonitz last week, police said. Evonitz shot himself to death Thursday in Sarasota, Fla., following a high-speed chase. Police had tracked him down after he allegedly abducted a 15-year-old South Carolina girl at gunpoint from a front yard in Richland County Monday evening while posing as a magazine salesman. Police said he took the girl to his home and raped her repeatedly. She escaped Tuesday morning after Evonitz fell asleep. In Evonitz's apartment, police also found other news clippings and "meticulous" notes about the Lisk sisters, Richland County authorities told The State newspaper in Columbia. Spotsylvania Sheriff's Capt. Mike Timm said yesterday he was aware of the clippings but did not have details about them. "It's obviously yet another reason that he's attracted so much attention from us," Timm said. Evonitz is also a suspect in the September 1996 slaying of Spotsylvania resident Sofia Silva. DNA evidence shows the same person killed Sofia, 16, Kristin, 15, and Kati, 12. DNA tests will prove conclusively whether Evonitz was responsible for the Spotsylvania slayings, police said. Timm estimated that the testing will take at least several days. Evonitz lived and worked in Spotsylvania during the time the highly publicized slayings occurred. Timm said Evonitz moved into a home on South Fork Court in South Oak subdivision in Massaponax sometime around June 1996. He had lived in the Woodlyn Apartment complex in Fredericksburg prior to that. It is not clear exactly when he left South Oaks, but Timm said the home was foreclosed on in 1999. Evonitz worked at Walter Grinders, a high-tech machinery supplier on Ladland Drive near Massaponax Church Road and U.S. 1, Timm said. Dietmar Weselin, president of the company, said Evonitz came to his company from another business in the county, Kaeser Compressors Inc. Weselin declined to make any other comment.
Read more stories about Spotsylvania Date published: 6/30/2002
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