Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp will meet with the FBI this week to discuss the murders of four people in the Glenview community off Fishing Creek Road.
“It’s another part of using available resources,” he said this morning.
Tripp plans on requesting the agency’s assistance in the case.
As the investigation into the deaths of James and Janice Harris and James and Peggy Whitley entered the sixth day today, Tripp had assistance early this morning from more than 40 Prison Emergency Response Team members around the Fishing Creek Road crime scene.
Tripp contacted Caledonia Correctional Institution which dispatched the state Department of Public Safety teams to the area.
There the teams searched woods, wood lines and ditches for any items of evidentiary value. Tripp declined comment on whether any evidence was discovered in the morning search.
Roanoke Valley Rescue Squad divers have previously checked the area with magnets.
Tripp declined comment this morning on what evidence has been collected from the actual crime scene, the house where the Harris couple hosted the Whitley’s Sunday for a weekly card game.
He would not discuss whether investigators were looking for one or multiple suspects in the case.
The only new information to emerge in the case came from a proclamation by Governor Roy Cooper, who approved a $20,000 reward Friday, bringing the total fund to $51,000.
It says the four were shot through a glass door while they sat playing cards at the dining room table. All the victims died at the table after they were shot multiple times in an apparent home invasion, the proclamation says.
The crime was discovered Monday after a family member of the Harris’s went to the residence for a welfare check.