HALIFAX COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — One of Emma Compton Layne’s best friends is speaking out after the Halifax County Sheriff announced that Emma’s husband was arrested in connection to her murder. On ...

Wednesday marks one year since a Halifax County woman was reported missing. Emma Layne disappeared last June. It's been a tough year for the friends and family of Emma Layne. They're still waiting to ...

HALIFAX COUNTY, Va. – The Halifax County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in the 2017 murder of Emma Compton Layne. The victim’s husband, 67-year-old Russell Wayne Layne, of Nathalie, VA, was taken ...

HALIFAX Co., Va. (WSET) -- It's been three years since a Halifax County woman went missing. Just months after Emma Layne disappeared, investigators found her remains. Still, no one has been charged ...

A man has been charged with his wife’s murder seven years after hunters found the missing woman’s body in a shallow grave in the Virginia woods. Russell Wayne Layne, 67, was arrested on November 27 in ...

An update to a story we've been following for months: we now know that human remains found in Halifax County in November by hunters have been identified as Emma Compton Layne. Layne went missing in ...

Six years later, we’re still searching for answers, and are no closer to finding out who’s responsible for her death. She was last seen leaving the Cody Convenience Store in Halifax County in June ...

Emma Layne was killed in 2017 after she was last seen alive at her store in Virginia, deputies said. Her husband has now been indicted on a murder charge. Screengrab from Shawna Compton Krohn Seven ...

UPDATE: In November 2017, hunters found human remains in the woods less than a mile from the property Emma and her husband, Russell Layne, owned. The remains were positively identified as Emma in ...

Russell Wayne Layne was arrested on November 27 in connection to the 2017 murder of his wife Emma Compton Layne ( Halifax County Sheriff’s Office ) A man has been charged with his wife’s murder seven ...

On Wednesday, November 27, the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia posted on their Facebook page that an arrest was made in connection to the murder of Emma Compton Layne. “Sheriff Fred Clark ...