August 14, 2009
Briley gang member Duncan Meekins denied parole
Parole Board cites seriousness of Meekins’ crimes despite his role as a state’s witness 30 years ago. Former prosecutors and a retired detective...
August 13, 2009
No parole for Brileys’ accomplice
The Virginia Parole Board has denied parole for Briley brothers accomplice Duncan Eric Meekins, officials said today. The board cited the serious nature...
June 27, 2009
BRILEY BROTHERS: More victims’ kin say they oppose parole for Meekins
More relatives of victims in a triple murder committed by one of the Briley brothers and accomplice Duncan Eric Meekins are opposing parole for Meekins....
June 18, 2009
Prosecutors make parole pitch for Brileys accomplice
The two prosecutors who won convictions of the Briley brothers spoke on behalf of the killers’ accomplice yesterday in a closed meeting with a member...
June 16, 2009
Relative of slaying victims opposes release of Briley brothers’ accomplice
A relative of three people killed by the Briley brothers gang has asked the Virginia Parole Board not to release the brothers’ accomplice when board...
May 31, 2009
For Va. corrections, 1984 unrest led to tougher stances
The Great Escape on May 31, 1984, at Mecklenburg Correctional Center wasn’t the only turmoil in Virginia’s prison system that year. In June,...
Jailbreak: Briley brothers busted out of death row
On a balmy day in April 1977, Gov. Mills E. Godwin and a bevy of prison officials, some dressed in seersucker suits, performed a ribbon-cutting ceremony...
May 30, 2009
Rampage: The Briley brothers terrorized Richmond area
By REED WILLIAMS AND BILL MCKELWAY
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITERSLinwood Earl Briley was the oldest brother, the calculating leader of the Briley brothers gang. As far as police know, he began his murderous career at...
Briley brothers mayhem detailed
Authorities list these incidents of mayhem in which the Briley gang was involved.
May 29, 2009
Briley Brothers: Captured and condemned
Times-Dispatch staff writer Bill McKelway covered the capture and the condemned prisoners last meals.
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INFO GRAPHIC: DEATH-ROW ESCAPE
On Thursday, May 31, 1984, most of Virginia’s 24 death-row inmates were confined to the “C” pod on the second floor of the Mecklenburg Correctional Center Building No. 1. A solid wall divided the pod in half. A guard was in each day room and the control room. Here’s how six inmates escaped ...
