Fairfax Police Release Video in Vanessa Pham Homicide Case
Detectives have released a video of Vanessa Pham’s car in the Fairfax Plaza shopping center from a short time before police responded to the crash on Arlington Boulevard on Sunday, June 27. Police are asking the public to pay particular attention to the portion of the video when Pham’s car is attempting to exit the parking lot. There are several vehicles behind her car and others on Gallows Road attempting to enter the parking lot. Anyone who recalls being in close proximity to or seeing her car in and around the Fairfax Plaza shopping center parking lot is asked to call the Fairfax County Police Department using the contact information at the bottom of this release.
Previous UPDATE
Mason Police District – Detectives have determined that Vanessa Pham visited a business in the Fairfax Plaza shopping center in the 2900 block of Gallows Road around 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 27. She did not appear to be in distress at that time.
On Friday, July 2, members of the Fairfax County Police Department’s Search and Rescue Team conducted an extensive search of the crash site and surrounding area. They were looking for any potential evidence related to this homicide.
Police continue to ask for the public’s assistance in providing any information that may lead to the identification and arrest of the suspect.
Previous UPDATE
Death Investigated as Homicide
Mason Police District – On Monday, June 28, police identified the victim as Vanessa V. Pham, 19, of 6700 James Lee Street, #138 in the Falls Church area. With the autopsy complete, police are now investigating this case as a homicide.
Police Investigate Suspicious Death
Mason Police District – On Sunday, June 27, around 3:34 p.m., police responded to the area of Arlington Boulevard and Williams Drive for report of a vehicle crash. Responding officers discovered a 2008 2-door Toyota in a ditch off the south side of Arlington Boulevard. Inside the vehicle was a deceased 19 year-old female. The victim appeared to have trauma to the upper body which was not consistent with the mechanism of the crash. Detectives are now investigating this as a suspicious death.
The investigation continues.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Solvers by phone at 1-866-411-TIPS/8477, e-mail at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org or text “TIP187” plus your message to CRIMES/274637 or call Fairfax County Police at 703-691-2131.
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The place where the girl was found is pretty high in prostitution, behind there is a hotel, could be that the insident happend there.
Whats interesting about this video is that she has multiple opportunities to make that right turn.
But she takes quite a while doing so and in facts misses a few great opportunities. Its in my opinion that there could be possibly someone in the vehicle at this point and is make their demands to her. He was probably hiding in the backseat and somehow gotten in while she was at the salon.
I,like thousands of others, were devastated by this tragic story. My heart broke and I wanted to reach out. I saw a Memorial Fund that was established and donors were encouraged to send financial relief there. Being wary of “Memorial Funds” I was so glad to see that someone posted that personal checks made out to Julie Pham would be given to her directly by AVTV in Falls Church. I sent a letter of encouragement and a check to that location. Now I read that it has been decided by the creators of the Memorial Fund that all funds received – that exceed the funeral and burial expenses – will be used to set up a scholarship for a deserving student! Wait! What about the $40,000 tuition debt incurred by the mother of the very person for whom the money was intended? So if they collect $100,000 only the $10-12,000 cost of funeral and burial will benfit the Pham family?! The rest goes to the school fund? This is insanity. Every cent should go to the Pham family. I am sure that you will agree that the intentions of the people who gave were to give financial relief to Julie Pham.I am sure that what they are doing is LEGAL but highly deceptive and unethical.
Correction: That organization is VATV in Falls Church (not AVTV as previously indicated)