The Victims Rights Foundation is based in Gaithersburg and is planning its second community walk in January to help find a man suspected of raping two senior citizens. Wims founded the nonprofit in 1996 after three killings in Beltsville shocked the suburbs. His organization has brought comfort to thousands of area family members and helped raise money for them. What compelled you to help in 1996?

These three young ladies had been murdered and their bodies were thrown out of a vehicle in Beltsville; it was a horrible story. The way I put it is the Lord spoke to me and I knew had to help these families. To this day I have not been a victim of crime or anyone in my immediate family. … In the [Beltsville] case I went and [got] the name and address of the families. The rest is what we do today: We give comfort and support and put up a reward to try and help catch the person and assist with the burial [costs].