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A Virginia mother of three was allegedly murd£red after being lured to West Virginia with the promise of a job opportunity by a man she was romantically involved with.

Angel Whitaker, 37, left her Bristol, Va., home in January 2026 for a new job in Bluefield, W.Va., after former work associate Donald Pennington, 59, allegedly offered her an assistant manager position at an O’Reilly Auto Parts in Bluefield, according to a criminal complaint obtained by WVNSTV.

Whitaker, who allegedly met Pennington at a Bristol auto shop in 2018 and began a relationship with him shortly after, moved in with him after relocating to West Virginia.
By April, her family lost all contact with her, and on May 4, her sister Angela reported her missing.

Investigators said the relationship had grown strained after Whitaker moved in with Pennington, and in the weeks before her disappearance, her sister told police Whitaker had moved into a Princeton hotel to distance herself from the situation.

Whitaker was last seen on April 17, 2026, when she allegedly showed up to work intoxicated. Pennington told police he drove her home, but when he returned from work later that day, she was gone.

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