VA. COP'S '84 SUICIDE REOPENED AS HOMICIDE PROBE

THE shots rang out in Gates County, North Carolina. It was March 1984. Three shots, then a fourth. For most of the past three decades, investigators believed the dead man lying face down in the creek had killed himself. He was Portsmouth, VA police officer Garland L. Joyner. Investigation revealed Joyner had killed imself over bad debts and had even pumped up his life insurance policies--tell tale signs of a suicide.
Resident Keith Mundie told the Virginian-Pilot: "The buttons from his shirt were laying on the bridge. His wallet, his cards, all of the paperwork from his wallet,