SERIAL KILLER: On The Colonial Parkway (Part 1)
In 1986, park rangers near Virginia’s Colonial Parkway get notified of a possible traffic accident. When rangers arrive, they are confronted with the violent scene. The deaths of Cathleen Thomas and Rebecca Dowski. Though it is brutal and seemingly unprovoked, the public doesn’t start getting truly concerned until two more young people, Robin Edwards and David Knobling, are murdered just off the Parkway.
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Episode Source Material
*A special Thanks to Bill Thomas who requested we do this episode and provided me with all of these resources.*
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- Four cases link families, scenic parkway
- Dateline NBC Crime Capsule
- “The Killer Could Still be out There”: 30 years later, still no answers in the Colonial Parkway Murders
- Investigation Discovery Crimefeed
- Family: New DNA testing could crack Colonial Parkway Murders
- Virginia Pilot – 3 part series
- Colonial Parkway Murders Facebook Page – Maintained by Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley
- Two other Colonial Parkway Facebook pages (not as active)
- What happened to Richard “Keith” Call & Cassandra Hailey? – Maintained by Joyce Call Canada
- Colonial Parkway Victims – Gone But Not Forgotten – Maintained by Jennifer Phelps
- Dark Minds Episode – Investigation Discovery
- “A Special Kind of Evil: The Colonial Parkway Serial Killings” by Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester
- Colonial Parkway Murders Wikipedia Page
- Visiting the Crime Scene at Ragged Island, the second of the colonial parkway murders
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