Suspect found dead in Goochland apartment after Hanover homicide

Goochland County was pulled into a homicide investigation that began in Hanover County and ended with a second death inside a Goochland apartment. Authorities said the woman, identified as 45-year-old Kristen Michelle Moolhuyzen, was found dead after deputies were called to the 7400 block of Mook Court in Mechanicsville at 8:11 p.m. on Friday, June 12.

Hanover County deputies responded to the Mechanicsville home after Hanover Emergency Communications took the call, and investigators later identified Moolhuyzen’s ex-boyfriend as the suspect in her death. In the hours that followed, the suspect was found dead at a separate location in Goochland County, shifting part of the response into a second jurisdiction and extending the case beyond the original scene in Mechanicsville.

The early reporting did not release a cause of death for either Moolhuyzen or the man identified as the suspect, and Hanover County officials had not yet publicly laid out a full account of what happened at the Goochland apartment. For Goochland residents, the key public-safety question is whether the investigation created any continuing danger nearby; no such risk was described in the early reports, and no public warning for the county was reported alongside the initial facts.

The case now sits across county lines, with law-enforcement records and future court filings likely to be split between Hanover and Goochland as investigators continue assembling the timeline. Hanover County Sheriff’s Office records can be requested through the agency, and records tied to the 911 call can be sought through Hanover Emergency Communications at 804-365-6140. If charges or court proceedings follow, Virginia’s court-information systems will become the next place to track the case as officials piece together how a domestic dispute in Mechanicsville ended with a second death in Goochland.