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Michelle Moore-Bosko found dead
July 8, 1997 Michelle Moore-Bosko, 18 is found dead by her husband Billy Bosko. -
Danial Williams arrested
Police charge Danial Williams with the murder and rape of Michelle Moore-Bosko. At 8:01 a.m., investigators called Michelle's father to give him the news. -
Williams' DNA doesn't match
Danial Williams had confessed to killing Michelle Moore-Bosko in July, but his DNA didn't match the murder scene. -
Joe Dick is arrested
Joe Dick is picked up and taken in for questioning by Norfolk police. Dick was Williams' shipmate on the amphibious assault ship Saipan. Police later charge him with capital murder and rape. -
Joe Dick's DNA fails to match
Scientists in Richmond test Dick's DNA. He does not match. -
Eric Wilson is arrested
Navy investigators bring Eric Wilson to Norfolk's Police Operations Center. Police charge Wilson with capital murder and rape. Like Williams and Dick before him, Wilson's blood was sent to the scientists in Richmond for a DNA analysis. But ,like the others' samples, his wasn't a match. -
A fourth suspect?
The search for a fourth suspect begins. -
How many men were there?
Joe Dick says there were more people in Michelle Moore-Bosko's apartment that night: There were six, he says. -
Two more men arrested
June 18, 1998 While Derek Tice sat in his Orlando home, Norfolk police obtained warrants for his arrest and alerted police in Florida. At 11:40 p.m., Norfolk police are informed that Orlando police had arrested Tice. In his confession, Tice gave police two more names: Richard Pauley Jr. and Geoffrey Farris. Five days later, police arrested Pauley, 26, a former soldier and an ex-husband of Williams' wife, Nicole. On July 9, they arrested Farris, 23, a former sailor living in Virginia Beach. -
Six men jailed
But Pauley and Farris claimed to be innocent and gave police samples of their blood for DNA testing. Once again, the Norfolk homicide squad waited for the results. One year after the crime, six men sat in jail for the rape and murder of Michelle Moore-Bosko. -
Another man accused
At 5:20 p.m., Tice asked the lawyers to leave and told police the identity of the seventh man: John Danser. Danser, who enlisted in Philadelphia on Nov. 30, 1990, when he was 17, served aboard the carrier George Washington. He was discharged in July 1996. -
Seventh suspect arrested
Danser is picked up in suburban Philadelphia. Local authorities had held Danser in a local jail until the Norfolk detectives arrived. Norfolk police charge him with capital murder and rape, based on Tice's new statement. -
Failed DNA matches
There was more news from the scientists studying the DNA evidence in Richmond. Every suspect - including Pauley, Farris and Danser - failed to match the crime scene evidence. -
Eighth arrest
A woman walks into the Norfolk courthouse and deliverew to detectives letters written by Omar Ballard in his prison cell. Ballard was the man who had been saved by Billy and Michelle in 1997 from an unruly crowd at Bayshore Gardens. If police had checked, they would have known earlier that Ballard had pleaded guilty to assaulting the woman at Bayshore Gardens two weeks before Michelle's death. He was searving a 41 year sentence for the rape of a 10 year old Ocean View girl. -
Ballard confesses to murder
Ballard confesses to Michelle's murder, after he had been brought to the Norfolk Police Operations Center. He told the detectives he had raped and stabbed her to death. -
Ballard's DNA matches
As detectives prepared to charge Ballard, scientists at the state lab called with good news. They finally had a DNA match to the crime scene. Omar Ballard. -
Charges dropped against 3
May 14, 1999, the charges against Pauley, Farris and Danser are dropped. -
Wilson is sentenced
Eric Wilson sat in a Norfolk courtroom. Nearly two years after Michelle's murder, it would be the first trial for any of the eight defendants. Wilson, the third suspect arrested, had signed a confession but later maintained his innocence. The jury took an hour to return Wilson's sentence: 8 1/2 years in prison. -
Derek Tice's trial
Tice receives two life sentences for capital murder and rape. Tice's trial was held in Arlington because of the extensive publicity in Norfolk. -
Men petition for clemency
Derek E. Tice, Joseph J. Dick Jr. and Daniel J. Williams, are serving life in prison with no possibility of parole. They will petition the governor today for clemency, arguing that Norfolk police coerced them to confess and that no physical evidence links them to the crime. -
Three men pardoned by Gov. Kaine
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said today he has granted conditional pardons to three members of the “Norfolk Four,” a group of sailors convicted of raping and killing young Navy wife Michelle Moore-Bosko in 1997 in Ocean View. Those pardoned are Danial Williams, Joseph Dick Jr. and Derek Tice.
