Virginia State Police are expected to announce Friday that a fourth homicide is connected to a former Northern Neck resident who died in 2017, 10 On Your Side has learned.

Virginia State Police are expected to hold a news conference at 10:30 a.m. Friday at its Bureau of Criminal Investigation's Chesapeake field office.

Forensic evidence linked Alan Wilmer Sr. to the 1988 death of Laurie Ann Powell, then 19, who went missing March 8, 1988 and less than a month later, on April 2, 1988, was found floating in the James River near Craney Island. Wilmer Sr. died alone in his Lancaster County home Dec. 15, 2017 at age 63.

See Full Page