MUS-2026-252
Archive card
MUS-2026-252
Homicide
- Incident
- 1996
- Indexed
- Oct 14, 2026, by MuseUnsolved
- Agency
- Chesterfield County Police
- Location
- Richmond VA
Public record. Index entry.
Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.
Summary
What happened, as the record shows.
Cheryl Edwards, 25, and Charlita Singleton, 36, were working at the All for $1 store at Cloverleaf Mall on November 7, 1996. When Singleton failed to return home, her family reported her missing; both families met a patrol officer in the mall parking lot around 5:15 a.m. on November 8, and Chesterfield County Police Lt. Robert Skowron used a store key to enter the back door into the office, where he found both women stabbed multiple times with the safe open. Police are reported to have pursued every lead and hit dead ends; a possible 2004 break produced no progress, and later coverage describes investigators as no closer than at the start. No arrest has ever been reported.
Timeline
What the record establishes.
- November 7, 1996
Edwards (25) and Singleton (36) work at the All for $1 store at Cloverleaf Mall.
- November 8, 1996 (about 5:15 a.m.)
Families meet an officer in the mall lot; Lt. Robert Skowron of Chesterfield County Police enters the store's rear office and finds both women stabbed to death, safe open.
- 2004
Investigators briefly believed they had new leads; the leads fizzled with no apparent progress.
- 2023 to 2024
Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles revisits the case as still unsolved after about 27 years.
Key people
The people in the file.
25, clerk at the All for $1 store at Cloverleaf Mall. Found stabbed to death in the store's rear office on November 8, 1996.
36, clerk at the All for $1 store at Cloverleaf Mall. Found stabbed to death in the store's rear office on November 8, 1996.
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Investigating agency
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