A brutal murder in the Northern Virginia area has shocked but not surprised locals, where there has been a disturbing trend of deadly family violence in 2021. The latest case involves a family in Fairfax County with a lengthy history of audible and documented domestic disputes which were so frequent that, one neighbor says, no one thought the screaming they heard on Sunday was cause to call the cops.
Those neighbors and authorities now believe that Sunday, Sept. 5, was when 78-year-old Truman Nguyen was murdered and buried in his own backyard by his 19-year-old son, Philip Nguyen.
“This it the fifth time in 2021 where a father or a mother or a sister — for the 5th time in 2021 — has been murdered by a son or a brother,” said Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin during a Thursday press conference outside of the crime scene, pointing to a disturbing trendin the community. “On four separate occasions we have homicide victims whose lives have been taken by sons or the brother.”
Fairfax County Major Crimes Bureau Chief Ed O’Carroll echoed those thoughts.
Here we are again,” O’Carroll began.
The victim was last seen on Sunday and this was initially treated as a missing persons case. Police said a family member reported Truman missing on Monday.
It took a few days of investigation, but police said the major breaks in the case and an arrest came swiftly.
