Eight Arrested In Death Of Millworker

Eight people were arrested Wednesday in the 1992 murder of a millworker whose weighted body was found at the bottom of a pulp vat the day after co-workers accused him of tipping police to a theft.

All of those arrested were current or former employees of the James River Corp. mill.

Police cars and a SWAT team converged on the mill, and five workers were taken out in handcuffs.

Thomas Monfils’ body was found in a two-story pulp vat, a 40-pound weight was tied around his neck.

Monfils had vanished shortly after three co-workers confronted him on the job about an anonymous call he made to police saying a fellow employee planned to steal an extension cord from the mill. He was found dead the next day.