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Ghost House

Police officers also found
that Greenfield had been in a
Charlottesville residence on
Wertland St., known as the
Ghost House, near the time of
the murder with a badly cut
hand. He allegedly had told
several persons there that he
had killed a narcotics agent.

After Greenfield had been
warned that anything he said
could be used against him, he
described the details before
and after the slaying to
Richmond Detective Harry W.
Duke, who had arrested him at
St. Luke's Hospital in
Richmond where Greenfield
had gone for treatment of a
cut.

Greenfield allegedly told
Mr. Duke that he could not
recall stabbing Miss Jordan, but
confessed to the murder and
admitted that the knife taken
from his coat pocket was the
murder weapon.

But the case soon met
complications, when, unaware
that Greenfield was a juvenile,
Mr. Camblos released his name
and description as a suspect in
hopes that the publicity would
aid his apprehension.

However, when Mr.
Camblos found that Greenfield