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Colonial Parkway Murders - Part II · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: Their throats had been cut so deeply that they were
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  nearly decapitated, and the perpetrator had doused the bodies and
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  the vehicle with diesel fuel, although they did not ignite it.
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  More than one hundred latent and complete fingerprints were recovered
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  from both the interior and exterior of the car, but
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  none matched individuals in police databases. Dawski's body was located
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  in the back seat, while Thomas's was found crammed into
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  the hatchback. Evidence suggested that Thomas had fought with her assailant,
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  as a clump of her hair was discovered in her grasp.
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  Both women were fully clothed, and there was no indication
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  of sexual assault. Authorities dismissed robbery as a motive, as
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  both women's purses were found inside the vehicle and no
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  money or jewelry was missing. At that time, investigators believed
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  the murders occurred elsewhere, given the minimal amount of blood
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  present in the car. On January eighth, twoenty twenty four,
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  the Virginia State Police disclosed that DNA evidence had identified
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  Allan W. Wilmer Senior, a hunter and fisherman, as the perpetrator
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  in the murders. Of Nobling and Edwards. Additionally, DNA analysis
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  connected him to the unrelated murder of Teresa Lynn Spaw Howell,
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  which occurred in nineteen eighty nine. It is noteworthy that
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  Wilma passed away in twenty seventeen. Brian Craig Pettinger, age
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  twenty five, was a heavy equipment operator serving as a
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  maintenance worker for a local apartment complex. He was last
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  observed at a ballroom dance studio in Hampton, Virginia, on
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  December fourth, nineteen eighty seven, at eleven thirty PM, where
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  he was training to become a ballroom dance instructor. Two
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  days after he was reported missing, his wife located his
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  vehicle in the parking lot of the Newmarket North Mall
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  on February third, nineteen eighty eight. Two months later, fisherman
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  discovered Pettinger's body adrift in a marshy section of the
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  James River in Suffolk, Virginia, close to the mouth of
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  Chuckatuck Creek. His wrists and ankles were bound and a
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  rope was secured around his neck. The lead investigator suggested
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  that Pettinger had likely been hogtied. The autopsy revealed that
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  he had sustained blunt force trauma to the back of
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  his head. It was determined that he had been thrown
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  into the river while still alive and subsequently drowned unable
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  to swim. The case of Pettinger's murder remains unresolved and
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  occurred during the same time frame and vicinity as the
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  Colonial Parkway murders. At the time of Robin Edward's murder,
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  Pettinger was employed as a security guard and loss prevention
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  officer for the same security services company where Robin's mother,
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  Bonnie Edwards, worked as a receptionist. Wayne Elliot Mack, a
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  fellow dance instructor, later admitted to having left the studio
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  with Pettinger. Mack took his own life a few months afterward.
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  On April tenth, nineteen eighty eight, students Cassandra Lee Hailey,
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  aged eighteen, and Richard Keith Call, age twenty, from Christopher
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  Newport College were reported missing. Call, who was on a
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  two week hiatus from his serious girlfriend, Selina, invited Hailey,
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  a classmate from his business course, to watch a movie
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  on Saturday evening, followed by a party. Call's brother procured
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  beer for him prior to the outing. He picked up
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  Hailey at her family's home in Grafton for what was
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  described as their first date. Haley's sister noted, it really
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  wasn't a date date. They weren't going out to start
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  a relationship. It wasn't anything like that. The couple traveled
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  in calls Red nineteen eighty two Toyota, Selleca. They attended
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  a gathering in the University Square area, where they were
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  observed socializing separately. They were last seen departing the party
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  sometime between eleven thirty pm and two twenty five a m.
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  On the day of their disappearance. Call's abandoned vehicle was
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  discovered at the York River Overlook in Yorktown. The keys
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  were found on the driver's seat, while a watch and
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  eyeglasses were left on the dashboard. Most of the clothing
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  Call had worn, including his underwear, was located in the
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  back of the car, along with some of Haley's belongings.
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  Authorities later confirmed that this was in d the attire
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  the couple had on the night they went missing. However,
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  Hayley's purse and Call's wallet were unaccounted for. Police dogs
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  traced the scent of the two students beyond the location
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  of the Dowski Thomas vehicle recovery to the Indian Creek shoreline,
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  where the dogs attempted to enter the water. Initially, park
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  authorities speculated that the pair may have gone swimming and drowned,
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  a theory that was met with considerable skepticism due to
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  the cold water temperature and the steep twenty foot embankment.
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  In the aftermath of the call Hailey disappearance, the FBI
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  became aware of a fisherman driving a pickup truck who
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  had approached at least one other couple along the parkway
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  during the same period. This individual, later identified as Alan
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  Wade Wilma, was placed under surveillance law enforcement and observed
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  him cleaning and spray painting his vehicle. Subsequently, the FBI
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  executed a search warrant at Wilma's residence, where they discovered
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  handcuffs and a firearm. Despite these findings, an FBI polygraph
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  examiner determined that Wilmi