Eastern Shore Post

June 4, 2026

The voice of Accomack and Northampton counties on Virginia’s Eastern Shore

Man pleads guilty to murdering two in 2021

Man pleads guilty to murdering two in 2021

BY NANCY DRURY DUNCAN, Eastern Shore Post — A forty-eight-year-old New Church man who murdered two people in a December 2021 crime spree that began in  Pocomoke City, Md., and continued into Virginia was sentenced to 40 years in the penitentiary with more time...