Fearing that he would be arrested for murder, George left the area and returned later that night, where he dragged the body deeper in the woods, placed it in a ravine and covered it with leaves and branches.

[2] George was soon indicted by a grand jury on charges of murder, abduction and failure to provide medical care to a minor, but as prosecutor Paul Ebert believed he would be unable to secure a conviction, he offered to make a plea deal with the defense.

Authorities in Stafford County also investigated him for a series of abductions of teenage boys, all of whom claimed that a "Rambo-like character" dressed in full camouflage gear kidnapped and dragged them inside the woods, where he handcuffed and tortured them with stun guns.

After this, George proceeded to sexually assault and torture Sztanko – this consisting mostly of cutting him with a machete on various parts of the body and beating him, but also included using the stun gun's electro shocks on his genitalia.

He was quickly lodged into a local jail and a search was conducted of his house, where officers found loaded weapons, boxes of ammunition, two pistol clips, $155 in cash, safes containing undisclosed papers and numerous photographs of young teenage boys.

[3] George denied responsibility for the crime, but an examination of spent shell casings from the pistol recovered from his home conclusively established that it was the murder weapon.

[5] A delegate following the case, William J. Howell, planned to file legislation classifying sexual assault and torture as capital crimes, as it was discovered that the prosecutors could only seek a death sentence if they could prove George had stolen something from his victim.

[6] In October 1990, Paul Ebert, who was still employed as the commonwealth's attorney, claimed in both interviews and statements addressed to the courts that George admitted to killing not only Perry and Sztanko, but a third victim he would not name.

[8] George's execution was rescheduled for 1995, but was delayed yet again after he and his attorneys filed a motion to the Supreme Court arguing that prosecutors did not conclusively prove that he had killed Sztanko during the course of a robbery.

Some newspapers remarked that this was one of the fastest proceedings since the state resumed executions in the 1980s – at the time, 15 of the 49 inmates on Virginia's death row had been imprisoned longer than George.