Courts: Oct. 30 Paper

Grand jury to hear Null’s case

STAFFORD — A Stafford grand jury will hear Stafford resident Michael E. Null Sr.’s case, according to the result of Null’s preliminary hearing Oct. 23.

Null, 64, is charged with killing his roommate, John Rosso Jr., 73, over the summer.

Rosso died of a gunshot wound to the upper body, police said.

A grand jury will hear the case Nov. 2.

Man indicted on involuntary manslaughter charges

SPOTSYLVANIA — A grand jury has indicted a Spotsylvania man on four counts of involuntary manslaughter following a crash that killed four people in Culpeper in March. 

The crash killed four people — one from Vermont: James Cook, 21; Tyler Harlow, 20, and Joseph Sahnow, 20, of Ruckersville; and Tianna Jones, 19, of Stanardsville.

One survivor in the car that was hit, John Steiniger, is from Fredericksburg.

According to the state police, Greene was driving the wrong way on the road when the collision occurred.

Last two defendants in beating case in court

SPOTSYLVANIA — The final two defendants of nine in total in a local beating case were in court late last week to be sentenced.

The group attacked a pair of Spotsylvania teenagers, police said.

Kyle Antwan Brown, 19, received one year of a five-year sentence from an unlawful wounding charge.

James Massey Jr., 18, was ordered to serve 6 months of a 3-year sentence on an unlawful wounding charge.

— Staff reports

Louisa woman guilty of dumping body

LOUISA —  A Louisa County woman linked to three mysterious deaths beginning with that of her second husband 15 years ago pleaded guilty Oct. 22 to dumping her boyfriend’s body in an abandoned well.

Ulisa Mary Chavers, speaking in barely audible tones, pleaded guilty to charges of concealing the body of Reginal Cody Bowles, credit-card fraud, identity theft and possession of a sawed-off rifle.

She faces up to 25 years in prison when she is sentenced Jan. 25.

She admits not only to putting Bowles’ body in the well, but she also told authorities she buried her second husband, Clent Chavers, in their back yard in Amelia County in 1994. She said she later beheaded the corpse and threw it out at a landfill. Bowles’ remains were found in the well in March. Authorities exhumed Clent Chavers’ remains in April.

Chavers said both men died of natural causes, and authorities have not charged her with killing either man. Authorities have been unable to determine the two men’s cause of death.

— Reed Williams/Richmond Times-Dispatch