Executed Murderer to be Removed from Arlington
Arlington National Cemetary
Andrew J. Chabrol, a former Navy lieutenant, was convicted of the July 1991 rape and murder of Melissa Harrington in his Chesapeake, Va., home.
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.
He was executed in Virginia’s electric chair for his crimes in June of 1993. He was then interred at Arlington National Cemetary.
He’s been there long enough.
Sailor’s killer to be removed from Arlington thanks to new law
By Hope Hodge Seck
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.
Former Lt. Andrew Chabrol secured above-ground burial for himself in the nation’s most revered veterans’ cemetery while awaiting his execution by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1993 for the murder of Petty Officer 2nd Class Melissa Harrington.
At the time, the Navy simply did not have legal grounds for excluding him, since he’d completed his service honorably. But in early 2019, a small group of veterans, including her husband, spoke out…
I checked. Arlington County has a perfectly fine landfill.
Category: Arlington National Cemetary, Crime, Navy
Works for me. Chuck his bones into the Potomac.
What do you have against the Potomac River, the fish and the ecosystem there? What did they ever do to you?
And from what I understand, the Potomac has been cleaned up quite a bit from its former polluted mess.
Why would you want to re-pollute it?
crabs gotta eat, too.
Buzzards gotta eat same as worms.
Since this guy was cremated before his cremains were interred can we just flush him.
Spread his ashes on an icy street. Get something useful out of his remains.
Wouldn’t ashes just make the icy street more dangerous? They don’t melt the ice, and they offer no traction… just an added layer of looseness.
A lot of landfills now produce electric power on site using the
Methane gas from the rotting stinking trash below.
A fitting final contribution to society no?
Concur.
You have to be 3 nautical miles or more off shore to dispose of sewage.
Should have never been placed there in the first place
Ditto. Someone in authority and a pair should have said, “Oh, hell no!” What could the dead scum do, sue? I think not.
How the suggestion of an Arlington burial proceeded beyond ‘are you a fucking retard?’, is beyond me.
At the time, the authorities in charge of managing Arlington National Cemetery (and all other federal military veterans cemeteries nationwide) could not take into consideration nor request information on a internment candidate’s criminal history.
That only came into effect in the late 1990s when Congress took action to prevent the possible internment of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in a veterans cemetery.
There are likely a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there but he was among the most well known.
Wouldn’t putting this murderous scum in a landfill create another Super Fund Site? Are there no burn pits? Feral hogs? Buzzards? Worms? MorBark Wood Chippers?
Murderers don’t get to rest in peace.
Side note: kudos to VA for the expediency of carrying out the sentence. He committed the offense in July of 1991 and was executed in June of 1993. We need to bring back that sense of urgency in unaliving these fuckers.
He pled guilty and waived all appeals.
Unrepentant until the end, Chabrol went so far as to claim just prior to the execution that his murder victim enjoyed the rape.
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66206328/melissa-marie-harrington
Got a new place for his ashes:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64711110/andrew-jsm-chabrol
It’s almost like “Charbroil.” As in how his body will be disposed of in the afterlife.
Public Information.
Charbroiled to a crackly crunch.
Good.
Now get him the hell off of Hallowed ground.
Essentially it states:
Immediate cause: Execution
Describe how injury relating to death occured: Legal Execution
Love it!!
High Senior picture from the 1979 Florida State University Yearbook.
He was the Captain of his Bowling Team from 1978-1979, with the Navy ROTC and was President of the Inter-Residence Hall Council.
While in the US Navy, he received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (April and July 1984 awarded by 6th Fleet) and in January 1991).
Birthplace: Guyana
Plenty of septic ponds out in the country that his remains could be thrown into and forgotten.
Why not dump his worthless ashes into an asphalt trailer and use him to fill in a few potholes? At least he’d be of some use then.
Surely there is a homeless camp in Virginia in need of construction of a two-holer outhouse.
I did many burials in ANC when I was in The Old Guard. We mostly worried about how fat they were, how elaborate their casket was, and how far we’d have to carry them. This guy, we’d have worried about. (Although the fact is we knew next to nothing about each individual job.)
This jackass clearly doesn’t belong among our honored dead (I’d love to see a modern-day Plot E for such folks).
I do worry, once the ball of disinterring those-we-don’t-like gets rolling, that we’ll eventually see those with any black marks or accusations on their records (or in public opinion) evicted from their eternal resting place.
This. I would volunteer to dig up by hand thos of this guy’s ilk, I’m concerned about precedent. How long until we disinter those who our now fully woke enlightened society deem unworthy. Like, you didn’t prostrate yourself to the PC God du jour.
Dont say it can’t happen. They’re attacking Abe Lincoln for not being anti-racist.
The cremated remains of convicted murderer Andrew J. Chabrol have been removed from the columbarium at Arlington National Cemetery recently. His name no longer shows up on a query of the interred registry on the Arlington National Cemetery website.