Henrico Police seek help solving 2018 cold case death
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Henrico Police officials are seeking the public’s help to solve the 2018 death investigation of Starquay Spruill, who had been missing nearly a month when her body was found Sept. 3, 2018 inside a large, spray-painted wooden box near the 4100 block of Benton Avenue near Richmond Raceway.
“It looked like a homemade coffin,” said Henrico Police Detective Chris Henry. “It was a plywood box big enough to put a body inside. It was chilling to see.”
Spruill, 24, was a mother of two. Toxicology reports and a lack of trauma led the medical examiner to classify Spruill’s cause of death as undetermined.
Detectives suspect that more than one person is responsible for what happened to the Henrico woman.
On Aug. 4, 2018 Spruill called police to report that someone had broken a window and vandalized her home at the Newbridge Village Apartments. On Aug. 5, 2018 officers on foot patrol noticed the door to Spruill’s apartment was open but she wasn’t inside. Family and friends reported her missing that night.
“It’s been two-and-a-half years and we have nothing,” said Geraldine Pitchford, Spruill’s aunt. “Her kids deserve to know what happened to her – why their mother is not here.”
Detectives want to know where Spruill was between the time she went missing and the time her body was discovered. They believe she may have been held against her will or staying with others.
“We need the help of people who either heard or saw things to confirm what we already know and to fill in the gaps of the things that we don’t know,” Henry said. Anyone with information about this case can call Henry at (804) 501-4829 or report tips anonymously to Crime Stoppers (804) 780-1000.
