Show to air local crime

From STAFF REPORTS

Published: July 24, 2008

STAFFORD — ABC’s television show, “Primetime Crime” is set to air a program on area resident Justine Swartz Abshire, who was killed in Novermber 2006.
Abshire was a teacher at Emerald Hill Elementary School in Culpeper, and was found along a road in Barboursville. Police originally said it was a hit and run.

Abshire, 27, had married just six months prior the being killed.

Abshire’s friends and family are offering $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for her death.

“We strongly believe there are people in the community who have knowledge of what may have happened and when one or more of them choose to come forward, not only will the case move forward, but they’ll be doing the right thing,” her mother, Heidi Swartz told the Culpeper Star-Exponent in March as new, yet still scant details emerged in the case.

The show on Wednesday is set to air at 10 p.m.

The Culpeper Star-Exponent’s Allison Brophy Champion
contributed to this report.