{"id":139926,"date":"2023-04-13T13:06:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=139926"},"modified":"2023-04-13T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T17:06:12","slug":"executed-murderer-to-be-removed-from-arlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139926","title":{"rendered":"Executed Murderer to be Removed from Arlington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-139924 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anc-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anc-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anc.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Arlington National Cemetary<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Andrew J. Chabrol, a former Navy lieutenant, was convicted of the July 1991 rape and murder of Melissa Harrington in his Chesapeake, Va., home.<\/p>\n<p>Then Lieutenant Chabrol had made unwelcome advances to a subordinate, Petty Officer Harrington, and was rebuffed. She reported the situation to superiors. Chabrol blamed his subsequent career downturn and ruined marriage on her. After his retirement in January of 1991, he planned his crimes, all duly recorded on his personal computer.<\/p>\n<p>He was executed in Virginia&#8217;s electric chair for his crimes in June of 1993. He was then interred at Arlington National Cemetary.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been there long enough.<\/p>\n<h3>Sailor\u2019s killer to be removed from Arlington thanks to new law<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Hope Hodge Seck<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After 30 years in a place of honor at Arlington National Cemetery, the remains of a former Navy lieutenant who kidnapped and murdered a sailor who rebuffed his attentions will be disinterred.<\/p>\n<p>Former Lt. Andrew Chabrol secured above-ground burial for himself in the nation\u2019s most revered veterans\u2019 cemetery while awaiting his execution by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1993 for the murder of Petty Officer 2nd Class Melissa Harrington.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the Navy simply did not have legal grounds for excluding him, since he\u2019d completed his service honorably. But in early 2019, a small group of veterans, including her husband, spoke out&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2023\/04\/12\/sailors-killer-to-be-removed-from-arlington-thanks-to-new-law\/\">Navy Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I checked. Arlington County has a perfectly fine landfill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington National Cemetary Andrew J. Chabrol, a former Navy lieutenant, was convicted of the July 1991 &hellip; <a title=\"Executed Murderer to be Removed from Arlington\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139926\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Executed Murderer to be Removed from Arlington<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,185,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arlington-national-cemetary","category-crime","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}