Her remains were found enclosed in materials in the basement of a Chesapeake Beach motel 30 months after she was killed. His victim was 15-year-old Pamela Boarman, who disappeared Aug. He entered a guilty plea on the murder charge with the understanding that the rape charge would be dropped. 4, 1989, Ferguson was turned over to the state of Maryland where he was tried in Calvert County on charges of murder, rape and 11 other crimes.

His residence before being imprisoned was a rental property two blocks from the Mary Washington College campus. He pleaded guilty to the malicious wounding, but the abduction charge was dropped. Seven months after Lard’s death, Ferguson was charged with the abduction and malicious stabbing of a 17-year-old girl at Falmouth Beach. But “he had an alibi,” says one of the detectives currently probing the case. Richard Wayne Ferguson, now 38 and a Fredericksburg resident at the time of the abduction and murder, was working on a paving project near Mount Vernon Realty the day Lard disappeared. One of the persons interviewed by detectives early in the investigation is still a suspect and is serving a life sentence at the Jessup State Prison Annex in Maryland. They would not be specific about what the evidence was or where it was obtained. The case of the 40-year-old Aquia Harbour resident was never solved.īut 16 years later, Stafford Detective Jeffrey DeBoard, who investigates old or so-called “cold cases” for that county’s Sheriff’s Office, and Detective Sammy Newsome, who investigates such cases for the Prince William County Police Department, are working the case again.ĭeBoard and Newsome recently sent evidence to the Virginia Division of Forensic Science Laboratory in Richmond and are awaiting a report. It was in the parking lot of Alexandria’s Bren Mar Apartments. Her car, a new Nissan Stanza, was found a week later. She had been severely beaten and strangled, the autopsy showed. Two days later, two teen-agers discovered Lard’s body rolled inside some carpet at a makeshift dump off U.S. Sometime after 9 on that November night in 1986 someone paid a visit to her office at 306 Garrisonville Road, police detectives believe. Her husband, a Drug Enforcement Administration employee, was away on a trip and was expected back within a few days. Jacqueline Lard saw to it that her two children were safely in the care of a neighbor before returning to her Stafford County real estate office to work late.

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