September 5, 1980

(Journal Staff Reporter)

Man Tied To Slaying  Described

MOUNT AIRY-  The Surry County Sheriff's Department has a description of a man wanted for questioning in the death of a 14 year old Rural Hall girl. The body of Ronda Mechelle Blaylock was found on August 29th off a private road near the Surry-Stokes county line. She had been stabbed in the chest several times. She was last seen alive three days earlier riding with a man in a blue Chevrolet pickup truck with a white camper. The Sheriff's Department is circulating a description of a man about 20 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 165 pounds. He has muscular arms, brownish-blonde, shoulder length hair, and a neatly trimmed moustache, the Sheriff's Department said, and goes by the name Jimmy or Butch.