Before he landed on national news Web sites, accused double murderer William Morva was already notorious on the downtown Blacksburg scene.
Known for refusing to wear shoes, and not having a job, he is described by former neighbor Anthony Seay as “nice, but weird.”
Others have used less polite words.
At one point after Morva’s arrest on armed robbery charges last year, a T-shirt with a silk-screened image of him, surrounded by the words “William Morva Is An A******,” became a local fad fashion item.
The shirt was made by Rebecca Cartage and her boyfriend Mark Williams, in response to an inside joke and a phone debt.
Williams had tried to help Morva out by arranging cell phone service for him because Morva lacked a credit card, Cartage said. When Morva was arrested on an armed robbery charge last year he was unable to pay Williams back and Williams wound up on the hook for $389, Cartage said.
To cover the debt the couple, who are now working on an organic farm in Michigan in exchange for room and board, started selling the T-shirts for $5 apiece. They sold about 50 shirts, which covered about half the phone bill, Cartage said.
She said Morva used to always joke that he could make money selling such a shirt, “but it never got off the ground because he wouldn’t let us take his picture.”
After Morva’s robbery arrest, they got the picture they needed – his mug shot.
(Credit:http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/79080)
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