(Henry County, Va.) — The state medical examiner’s office says Juanita Dalton died of a stab wound to the neck. She’s the Chatham woman whose body was found in her burning car in Axton last Sunday.

44-year-old Curtis Callaway of Pittsylvania County is charged with murder and arson. Arrest warrants show he had scratches to his face and hands along with blood stains on his boots when he was first questioned by detectives.

Callaway at first denied meeting Dalton on the day of her death, but later admitted to driving to her home in Pittsylvania County.

Phone records indicate Callaway had spoken with the 74-year-old woman just hours before she was found dead in Henry County.

 

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