# Killing of Patsy Cowan

Unsolved homicide · 1980 · Virginia Beach, Virginia

On Thursday, October 9, 1980, Patsy Cowan had attended a picnic in Chesapeake, Virginia from the late afternoon hours until around 7:30 pm. A local builder invited real estate agents and builders from the Tidewater area to a large cookout where plans for a new development, on the land where this picnic occurred, was announced. Patsy was seen arriving and leaving alone in her 1976 dark colored Oldsmobile. She…

Original record: https://coldcase.vsp.virginia.gov/?p=1746
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/killing-of-patsy-cowan-va1746

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## Sources

1. Virginia State Police record, https://coldcase.vsp.virginia.gov/?p=1746


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