News & Politics A Murder on the Rappahannock River A little over 30 years ago, a Northern Neck fisherman named Emerson Stevens went to prison for the brutal slaying of a homecoming queen and mother of two. Now, a reexamination of the case by a hard-charging UVA lawyer has turned up troubling questions. Did police have the wrong man? Virginia, Crime, Features, Longreads | Jun 27, 2019