we found a website registered to a charles severance of oakton, virginia called mentaldisorder.com. it details his legal troubles with the alexandria courts over custody of his son and possession of guns. long-time mayor carrie donnelly says severance used to come to political events dressed in black and focused on that one issue. >> whether you asked a question about a local community question or a local neighborhood question, he would launch into a diatribe about mental health services to juveniles and the prescription of psychotropic drugs. >> at one point he said alexandria city manager assigned an undercover city police officer just to keep an eye on severance at campaign events. >> news of evidence in the alexandria murders. it's stirring a lot of reaction, especially from the people who knew the three victims. so how do they feel about a possible break in this case? news4's darcy spencer continues our live team coverage with what some of their loved ones are saying tonight. darcy? >> reporter: we're outside the home of ruthanne lodato. she was the woman who was shot and kille

this is a picture on the website called mental disorder.com registered to a charles severance of oakton, virginia. in it, it discusses his candidacy and the legal problems with with the alexandria juvenile court over the custody of his young son is and possession of the gun. he ran against former alexandria mayor kerry donnelly in 20006 and 2007 and i spoke to donnelly today about his memories of severance. >> reporter: we both remember this guy, and you more than i do. what image sticks if your mind? >> well, i mean, he with was a strange fellow, and odd guy. he would come totally dressed in black. and he had a black cloak and a black hat and sunglasses and black gloves and come to the campaign events. you know, you asked about the local community question or the local neighborhood question, and he would launch into the diatribe about the mental health services to juveniles, and the prescription of psychetrophic drugs which was again a little bizarre. what i did not realize at the time is that the city manager and the police chief had assigned an undercover cop to shadow me in the camp