The woman charged with killing her 6-year old son is White. I would not be surprised if she was on drugs when she did it-the drugs niggers are bringing into the county. I do not know the race of the murdered couple, but I will guaran-damn-tee you that the murderers are drug dealing niggers. As for the problem of rising crime, it can only be the result of nonwhites (mainly niggers) coming in and doing what they do best.

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Dinwiddie doesn't feel so rural
Deaths of 6-year-old and couple serve as reminders that county is home to increasing level of crime

BY BILL MCKELWAY
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Dec 2, 2006

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DINWIDDIE -- When county native George F. Marable III first ran for chief prosecutor three years ago in this pine-studded, mostly rural county south of Petersburg, he preached that the job should be full time.
Trying criminals had been sort of a busman's holiday for generations of prosecutors.

During the past week, Marable has learned how right he was.

In three days Marable went from remarking to a friend that there seemed to be a low number of homicides to being confronted with three potential capital-murder cases.

"We were driving home from the Virginia Tech-Virginia game last Sunday. Two hours after I walked in the door, I got a call about Shawn Futrell being found dead.

"It was not far from where I live, just across the interstate," near DeWitt.

Marable made his first trip to a slaying scene and is surprised he didn't become ill at the sight of the 6-year-old boy, dead in an empty bathtub, stabbed to death.

"I was thinking as I went over how I might react. I guess I've sort of hardened up from seeing the crime scene photos over the years," Marable said.

Three days later, on Wednesday evening, sher- iff's deputies discovered the bodies of two people, both with multiple gunshot wounds, dead in a trailer park in McKenney.

The grisly crimes are reminders that times are changing. Dinwiddie's population, its crime and its infrastructure are awakening to a new era.

Sheriff Samuel Shands, who started as a dispatcher and jailer in 1972, is approaching 12 years at the helm.

"When I first joined the force, there was an occasional shooting or a cutting. Now it's another world," he said.

Interstate 85, which bisects the county, used to carry the blame for crime and drugs in addition to speeding vehicles. Now the crime and drug users are homegrown, the sheriff said.

In recent years a deputy sheriff was gunned down.

Shands' jail, double-bunked, can handle 64 of the 151 prisoners the county has now. The rest are housed in neighboring facilities.

As commonwealth's attorney, Marable, 36, has two assistant prosecutors and is looking for a third.

Criminal indictments have reached a high; they jumped from 370 to 519 in one year.

The county grew by less than 1,000 people between 2000 and 2005, a 3.5 percent increase that was half the state's rate of growth.

But expansions at Fort Lee could bring in thousands of new residents by 2011. And growth is coming in the northern end of the county while the rural southern end is losing population.

Dinwiddie has gone from a farm- and timber-based economy to a bedroom community with million-dollar showplaces along Lake Chesdin and crowded subdivisions that ring the Tri-Cities.

There are still remnants of the past, like Roxann's Bait & Tackle Shop at DeWitt, which includes a firewood operation and body shop.

"It's the new people and drugs," said 17-year-old Chris Cairnes, explaining the county's disappearing rural flavor and a week of horrendous crimes.

Cairnes, a high school senior, fears that what few jobs there are will be gobbled up by people who will move to the area when the base expands.

Efforts under way to almost double the classroom space of the school system already may be shortsighted, some residents say.

But crime is what's on the minds of people this week, and the arrest of Shawn's mother, Julie Futrell, in his slaying only adds to the sense here that life and rural values are changing.

"I was just horrified that this could happen here," said Jeane Shell, whose nephew was killed in May 2004. The case is still under investigation.

Shell praised the sheriff's department for its hard work but said it needs more people.

In McKenney, Andy Wallace runs the local grocery and is stunned at the county's changes.

"This used to be like living in Mayberry. Everyone knew each other. Now it's like living in another world," he said yesterday.

Drug-dealing, truancy and theft have become everyday things in a community that longtime residents have abandoned, Wallace said.

"They were good people," he said of Lowell Glass and Betty C. Smith, the couple found shot Wednesday. She traveled in a battery-powered scooter because of her multiple sclerosis.

The slayings of the couple shocked many people here, but there were signs of problems, Wallace said.

"She was up here one day last week and used our phone to call the sheriff's department. She told them about some drug-dealing that was going on," Wallace said. "A week later she was found dead."

Joseph M. Teefey Jr., who represents Julie Futrell, said yesterday that he expects to file papers next week seeking an assessment of the woman's mental condition.

But Shands, the sheriff, said yesterday that he is glad he rejected a request from Futrell to attend her son's burial service Thursday. Members of her family and that of her estranged husband were present.

So was Shands.

"You could see in people's faces there is a lot of anger, a lot of disbelief at what has happened," he said.

He could have been speaking for all of the county.

Contact staff writer Bill McKelway at bmckelway@timesdispatch.com or (804) 649-6601.