Frustrated...families of Colonial Parkway murder victims turn to private investigators for answers

On Saturday night, a fundraiser was held at the Candle Light Kitchen in Toano, to raise money to hire a team of private investigators, many hope can finally solve the Colonial Parkway Murders. It is the first of many such planned events.

More than 20 years after the last murders (at least officially) occurred in the case, the FBI has yet to solve even one of the crimes.

In January, the FBI announced that they were reopening the case, using new DNA testing. The victims’ families are still waiting for those results.

Frustrated with the lack of progress, the families hope to discover who killed their loved ones on their own. Joyce Call, the sister of one of the victims, told the Daily Press: “There's a murderer out there and he deserves to be held accountable.”

Between 1986-1989, there were eight bodies found at different points along Virginia’s Colonial Parkway. They were all killed in pairs, they were all young, and in some of the cases, the victims’ car was found with the driver’s side window rolled partially down, leading to speculation that the killer was either a police officer or security guard, or someone posing as such.

The case which has come to be known as the Colonial Parkway Murders has never been solved.

On October 12, 1986, the bodies of Cathleen Thomas, 27, and Rebecca Ann Dowski, 21, were found in Thomas' Honda Civic, at the bottom of an embankment along the Parkway. Their throats had been slashed.

In September 1987, David Knobling, 20, and Robin Edwards, 14, were discovered murdered at the Ragged Island Wildlife Refuge, on the James River. The bodies were found by Knobling's father.

On April 9, 1988, Cassandra Lee Hailey and Richard Keith Call were reported missing after attending a party in Newport News. It was their first date. Call's car was found on the Colonial Parkway the next day. Their bodies have never been recovered.

In October 1989, the bodies of Anna Marie Phelps, 18, and Daniel Lauer, 21, were found by hunters in the woods of New Kent County near a rest stop on Interstate 64. They had been missing for nearly a month.

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