U.S. Route 17

But this is the part that I found fascinating was that he had told me in advance, and I'm kind of glad he did, that he was going to take a slightly alternative route.

Now, it's kind of funny because he asked me, what's the best way to get there? I said, your main artery that you want to get to is Highway 17.

But you've got to get into the state to get there effectively.

And so what I told him was, you take, you know, from where he was located in Tampa, you know, take 75, you know, take 75 north right outside of Ocala, start looking for roads to get off to get on Highway 301, which cuts through the middle of the state.

She has had an argument with her boyfriend, Chris Cutler.

According to Cutler, Lori Powell gets out of his vehicle during an argument and is last seen at approximately 11:30 PM walking along State Route 614 toward the US Route 17 interchange with White Marsh.

Uh, White Marsh is a little tiny community in, uh, Gloucester County, Virginia.

Uh, for the most part, Chris Cutler is considered the suspect in Powell's death.

So actually have a connection to just about...

Well, they're all mostly gone now, but all the different general stores that were all along Route 17, which is, you know, obviously goes between, well, the, the north border way up north of Mar- Myrtle Beach all the way down past Charleston.

Uh, and Route 17 was the original route to Florida.

Yeah.

If you were driving south or south from Florida, to, to and from Florida, you had to go down Route 17.

This is before there was, uh, I-95 and the, and the interstate.

Um, so my family in this, uh, north of Charleston all the way up to Georgetown had all the different concessions along the road, and some of them were more complicated than others.

But on Sunday, June 6, 1993, that was completely changed.

That evening, at 6.56 p.m., local police received a 911 call from the B. Lowe's supermarket located at 409 West Granville Street, which was just three blocks from US 17.

The caller was 40-year-old Tony Welch Jr., who worked at the store.

He reported that an armed gunman had robbed the supermarket, attacking Tony and five other employees in the process.

Investigators also interviewed potential witnesses in the area, and they learned that multiple people had seen a small white car with Maryland license plates in the parking lot shortly before the murders.

Those witnesses said a black man was sitting in the car.

Other witnesses reported seeing the same car speeding north on US 17 between 7 and 7.15 p.m., which would have been just after the murders.

So with this information, which is a pretty solid lead, investigators contacted authorities in Maryland hoping to identify the vehicle and maybe potentially identify the owner of the vehicle, but...