In early March 2022, The News Leader published the first part of the subscriber-only, 10-part narrative project The Stocking Mask. The project told the story of Staunton as a city gripped by fear in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Catch 'The Stocking Mask': Follow the almost-forgotten 1979 hunt for a Virginia serial rapist STAUNTON, Va. – The intruder in the ...

This is Part 7 of "The Stocking Mask," a narrative series by Staunton News Leader, part of the USA TODAY Network. Want to start from the beginning? Follow this link. STAUNTON, Va. – It wasn’t bridge ...

This is Part 2 of "The Stocking Mask," a narrative series by Staunton News Leader, part of the USA TODAY Network. Want to start from the beginning? Follow this link. STAUNTON, Va. – Tires on several ...

It should have been impressive, the stack of evidence. One eyewitness identification by a September victim, who said she recognized her attacker on the street. Reinforced when she also picked him out ...

Summer, 2021. A few days a week, you can find a Black man in his mid-sixties named Ted working at White’s Travel Center in Raphine, a sprawling complex for truckers and travelers off Interstate 81, ...

STAUNTON, Va. – At the top of the ladder, in the hot July night, he paused, looking in on a landing between the first and second floors of the house. He popped the screen and the window slid up for ...

A serial rapist disguised in a stocking mask roamed Staunton, Virginia, in 1979, but many residents were left in the dark. The police, the victims’ college and the town’s newspaper all took steps to ...