Deputies work to connect 'pieces of the puzzle' after 2 bodies found along rural road in Brunswick County

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, Va. -- Law enforcement is working to connect the "mysterious pieces of the puzzle" after two bodies were found along a rural road in Brunswick County Sunday morning.

The gruesome discovery happened around 9:20 a.m. in the 100 block of Blue Bird Road in Dundas, officials with the Brunswick Sheriff’s Office said.

When deputies arrived, they found a man's body with an apparent gunshot wound along a ditch bank, Brunswick County Sheriff Brian Roberts said.

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“Walking looking for evidence we sadly stumbled across the second victim around 200 to 300 yards farther down the road, [She was] on the opposite side of the road in a ditch bank,” Roberts said.

That woman had also been shot, according to investigators. Both victims had multiple gunshot wounds, ” Roberts said.

The bodies of both victims were taken to the Medical Examiner’s Office in Richmond.

The crime scene is in sight of the Lunenburg County line.

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Investigators learned that a neighbor did hear gunshots between 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday, but Roberts said they did not call the sheriff’s office.

While the stretch of road is a rural part of the county, Roberts noted a home is within roughly 100 yards of where each body was discovered.   

VDOT closed Blue Bird Road for much of Sunday as evidence was gathered from across the massive crime scene.

“This is a pretty wild one from the extent of the magnitude of the distance, the evidence that’s here, the evidence that’s not here — and the mysterious pieces of the puzzle,” Roberts said.

Anyone with information about the case was urged to call Capt. Joey Lopresti at Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office at 434-848-3133.

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