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The Killer Passed the Polygraph: The Colonial Parkway Murders

The Killer Passed the Polygraph: The Colonial Parkway Murders

Between 1986 and 1989, at least eight young people were murdered or vanished along the Colonial Parkway, the 23-mile federal road connecting Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia. Couples in parked cars. Valuables untouched. Cars left behind like messages. Why did investigators suspect a police impostor? How did a distinctive local fisherman, surveilled and searched by the FBI in 1988, walk away after passing a polygraph? And why did it take until 2024 for DNA to finally say his name, seven years after he died?

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