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When 63-year-old Alan W. Wilmer Sr. died in December 2017, Virginia authorities needed to identify him and took a DNA sample – six years later, that genetic material linked him to the killings of three people in the 1980s, officials said Tuesday.

A Virginia fisherman lived under the radar as he murdered at least three people in the late '80s. The killings were known as the "Colonial Parkway Murders"

A Virginia fisherman and businessman went under the radar as he murdered at least three people in the late '80s and took his secrets to the grave.

When 63-year-old Alan W. Wilmer Sr. died in December 2017, Virginia authorities needed to identify him and took a DNA sample – genetic material that six years later linked him to the killings of three people in the 1980s, officials said Tuesday.

Alan W. Wilmer Sr., who died in 2017, was responsible for the homicides, the authorities said, including a double killing that was among a series known as the Colonial Parkway murders.

When 63-year-old Alan W. Wilmer Sr. died in December 2017, Virginia authorities needed to identify him and took a DNA sample – genetic material that six years later linked him to the killings of three people in the 1980s, officials said Tuesday.

Authorities in Virginia have identified a deceased fisherman as the prime suspect in the deaths of three people who were killed during what has become known as the Colonial Parkway Murders of the 1980s.

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Alan Wade Wilmer, Sr., who died in December 2017, has been named as the suspect in two separate cases, one in 1987 and the other in 1989.

Alan W. Wilmer Sr. was identified through DNA evidence.