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Colonial Parkway Murders - Part II
On January 8, 2024, the Virginia State Police disclosed that DNA evidence had identified Alan W. Wilmer Sr., a hunter and fisherman, as the perpetrator in the murders of Knobling and Edwards. Additionally, DNA analysis connected him to the unrelated murder of Teresa Lynn Spaw Howell, which occurred in 1989. It is noteworthy that Wilmer passed away in 2017.Brian Craig Pettinger, aged 25, was a heavy equipment operator serving as a maintenance worker for a local apartment complex. He was last observed at a ballroom dance studio in Hampton, Virginia, on December 4, 1987, at 11:30 p.m., where he…
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