UPDATE: York Arrests JCC Man for Wife's Murder

By WYDaily Staff Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Barton Dale Trevillian (photo courtesy Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail)

York-Poquoson Sheriff's investigators arrested 60-year-old Barton Dale Trevillian Tuesday at his residence in the Springhill neighborhood. He is being held without  bond at the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail, with a Nov. 22 date in York-Poquoson Circuit Court scheduled to appoint counsel.

Investigators did not release a cause of death until Wednesday morning. York-Poquoson Sheriff's Lt. Dennis Ivey, Jr. said Kuan-Yu Trevillian was strangled, and "there were indications of a struggle" between the husband and wife. He would not elaborate about any evidence investigators may have gathered.

Trevillian had reported his wife missing July 9, telling police she had gone for a run that evening and not returned. Around 8:15 the next morning, a passerby spotted a woman's body in some tall grass in the 300 block of Clifton's Bluff, a sparsely built-out street. It was Kuan-Yu Trevillian, wearing the same athletic clothing and shoes her husband had reported she'd worn when he last saw her.

Police searched the Trevillian home around midnight July 12, but the search warrant was sealed and police would not say what they had been looking for and whether it was found.

Investigators determined a cause of death early in the investigation, but have not released that information.

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+4 #3 Kathy 2011-11-17 19:27

I had an awful feeling about this from the beginning.

1/3 of all women murdered in the US are killed by an "intimate partner." That's someone who says they love them. Why can't we make a REAL change to this?

Violent behavior is often picked up - and carried on by kids. When children and their moms have no safe place to run, they either live afraid, die or follow in the footsteps of the abuser. PUT AN END TO THIS!

That's a KEY reason that York County should help fund Avalon. Either help now, or pay for folks who live their lives in jail.

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+6 #2 Steven 2011-11-17 09:54

I agree with KC. As a resident of Springhill, I have been waiting for some news of this case. I'm glad that they pursued this to this point and hope that they follow it to it's likely conclusion.

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+35 #1 KC 2011-11-16 09:23

Kudos to the JCC and York Police for not letting this one go. I have occasionally wondered what happened in this case. We have such few homicides in the Triangle that when they do happen, it is very unsettling. What a relief it is to know that the local police department continues to work to solve these cases.

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