Henrico Commonwealth Attorney Shannon Taylor's blunders takes Richmond woman's life

Henrico Commonwealth Attorney's release of known violent predator, who raped and killed a Richmond woman, has been sentenced to life in prison

 

Thomas Clark, a Henrico County man and Richmond-area contractor, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for the abduction, rape, and murder of Suzanne Fairman. 

Fairman, 53, was found dead in the bathtub of her Tanglewood Road home in Richmond on May 9, 2019. A knife, bandanna, glove, and iPhone cord that had been knotted and cut were found on the sink.

The Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor had agreed to have an electronic monitoring device removed from a known convicted felon who had a long criminal record of rape and violence towards women.

Just seven days later, VCU administrator Suzanne Fairman was killed, after an electronic monitoring device was removed from her killer’s ankle. 

The suspect, 59-year-old Thomas Clark of Henrico, had been out on a $2500 bond on several unrelated charges when Fairman was killed.

Police arrested Clark, 59, on unrelated charges about a week after Fairman was killed.

Clark was found guilty of the murder, rape, and abduction in November 2021.

Fairman hired Clark to work on the deck of her home, but had problems with the workmanship, according to court testimony.

Officers went to Fairman's home in May 2019 when the VCU administrator failed to show up for a Mother's Day trip out of state.

She was found face down inside the tub of the main bathroom with water running and a bloody knife visible on the counter in the same bathroom, according to court documents.

Prosecutors said Clark held Fairman at knifepoint, raped and strangled her. His DNA was found on a bloody knife and the victim, they said.

"There is a huge amount of relief," Fairman's son Scott after the guilty verdict was read in November 2021. "I know these last two-and-a-half-years have been dreadful for my family and my friends and everybody in our life. With this verdict, I just feel like everybody can begin to heal."

Fairman was supportive of the life prison sentence for his mom's killer.

Henrico County ranks at bottom 25% of safest cities in America

FBI crime statistics contradict Henrico County Commonwealth Attorney statements to the public

The chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime in Henrico is 1 in 41. Based on FBI crime data, Henrico is not one of the safest communities in America. Relative to Virginia, Henrico has a crime rate that is higher than 84% of the state's cities and towns of all sizes.

Neighbourhood Scout's analysis also reveals that Henrico's rate for property crime is 23 per one thousand population. This makes Henrico a place where there is an above average chance of becoming a victim of a property crime, when compared to all other communities in America of all population sizes. Property crimes are motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny, and burglary. Your chance of becoming a victim of any of these crimes in Henrico is one in 44.

Henrico county crime rate is 32 per square mile, the Virginia average is 19 per square mile.

Roughly similar to the national average, analysis shows that your chance of becoming a victim of violent crime in Henrico is one in 610. 

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/va/henrico/crime

SHANNON TAYLOR

Present Commonwealth Attorney Shannon Taylor, in her bid for re-election for November 2019 claims "Since Shannon took office in January of 2012, the violent crime rates in Henrico County have plummeted." 

False, the statistics show that violent crime has risen under Shannon Taylor's term.

Numerous local news networks reported in investigative reports that "Henrico homicide rate highest in decades". 

https://www.richmond.com/news/local/crime/henrico-in-had-the-highest-murder-tally-in-decades/article_b57b1e08-9812-5aee-9741-9aed14daaf09.html

 "Disturbing numbers out of Henrico County - they have 22 homicides so far this year"

  https://www.nbc12.com/story/36760564/henrico-homicide-rate-highest-in-five-years/

Since Shannon Taylor took office in 2012, Henrico homicide rates have doubled.

Henrico county does not even rank in the top 70 safest places to live in Virginia. https://www.safewise.com/blog/safest-cities-virginia/

The Henrico County crime online data base showed that in the past month, August 15, 2019 - September 15, 2019, Henrico county had 3089 crime incidents reported in just 30 days! 

https://randolph.co.henrico.va.us/public-data-access/searchicr.aspx

Henrico County CA Shannon Taylor's problems increased when she became under investigation by the FBI for corruption and bribery, which involved an international fugitive, who Shannon Taylor refused to extradite or accept his surrender to the Henrico Commonwealth Attorney Office. 

https://virginiastatebarcorruption.blogspot.com/2019/04/henrico-county-commonwealth-attorney.html

The citizens of Henrico have an important decision to make on November 05, 2019, vote to make a change for the better or continue in the corruption and elevated crime in Henrico county.