Booking photo for Adams, David, who's being held at at the North Central Regional Jail. Image: West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation A 56-year-old West Virginia man has been charged in a decades-old unsolved murder case.
Jerimiah Watkins, who went by Jerry, was 13 when he was murdered in Terra Alta, a small town not far from the Maryland border.
Though his body was found, his killer never was.Watkins’ body was found in a shallow hole by some railroad tracks in November of 1985, and an autopsy determined he had been murdered by a stab wound to the back.
But nearly 40 years went by before police were able to piece together what happened. Old photograph of Jerimiah "Jerry" Watkins, who was murdered at the age of 13 in 1985.