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Conviction in cold case: Guilty plea in rape and murder of 14-year-old Rural Hall girl


Forty years ago, Ronda Blaylock, a 14-year-old ninth-grader at Atkins High School in Winston-Salem, vanished. Three days later, her body was discovered. Authorities said she had been raped and stabbed to death. 
On Thursday, Robert James Adkins, a 64-year-old Surry County man, pleaded guilty to charges connected to her death. Adkins entered guilty pleas in Surry Superior Court to second-degree murder and second-degree rape. He had initially been charged with first-degree murder and first-degree forcible rape. 
Judge Angela Puckett of Surry Superior Court sentenced him to 21 years to 25 years each on the rape and the murder charges. He will serve both sentences at the same time, according to court documents.  ....

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