On February 27, 1990 eighteen-year-old Tammy Eleene Salyer left her place of employment in Bristol Tennessee at approximately 11:50pm driving her red 1988 Chevrolet Sprint. She drove six miles and entered Interstate 81 northbound at the 381 interchange in Bristol Virginia. Approximately two tenths of a mile from her normal exit at the seven-mile marker, her vehicle left the northbound lanes, crossed the median, the southbound lanes and side-swiped a highway marker post and tree before coming to a stop against the southbound barrier fence. At 12:15am (2/28/90) Bristol Virginia Police received a call of a possible accident at this location. Officers responded and found the vehicle stopped at the fence with the engine still running. Ms. Salyer was found seated in the drivers seat laying over on the passenger seat. Officers found that Ms. Salyers had been shot one time in the head. Ms. Salyer was pronounced deceased at the local hospital.