A Tappahannock man arrested this month for a 33-year-old cold case in King and Queen has been released on bond.
Jennie Lee Johnson, a 46-year-old King and Queen woman, was last seen alive on Nov. 22, 1991, according to Virginia State Police. On that date, she left a friend’s home, but never returned to her own. The following day, her body was found in a field near Newtown Road.
VSP said its Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) Richmond Field Office has been investigating the homicide ever since. With funding from the Virginia Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI), evidence was retested by DNA Labs International in Deerfield, FL, and the results pointed to 62-year-old Ives Terrell Fortune.
A grand jury indicted him, and King and Queen County Commonwealth’s Attorney Meredith Adkins and VSP recently announced Fortune was arrested on October 10.
Fortune is charged with rape and malicious wounding.
He was being held at the Middle Peninsula Regional Security Center in Saluda until yesterday, October 23, when he had a court appearance. Ives was granted bond and has since been released, court and jail records show.
His next hearing is scheduled for November 27.
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