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Oxygen s two-night true-crime special Lovers Lane Murders focuses on the slaying of eight men and women at the Colonial Parkway in Virginia
The double homicides took play over a four-year span, starting with the murder of Cathy Thomas, 27, and Rebecca Becky Dowski, 21, in October 1986
Nearly a year later, David Knobling, 20, and Robin Edwards, 14, were found shot in the head along the bank of the James River in September 1987
Christopher Newport University students Richard CallLess, 20, and Cassandra Hailey, 18, vanished in April 1988 after attending a party together
CallLess s car was found at a York River, but their bodies were never discovered
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Couple 1: Cathy Thomas and Rebecca Dowski
On October 12, 1986, a pedestrian found a car at this location. Bodies of two women were found inside it, they were later identified as Cathleen “Cathy” Thomas, a 27-year-old graduate of the Naval Academy, and Rebecca Ann Dowski, a 21-year-old student at the College of William and Mary. The two bodies were bound with rope and strangled, and the killer had slit their throats so deeply that they were nearly decapitated. Dowski s body was found in the backseat of the car, while Thomas s was found stuffed into the hatchback.
There was no evidence of sexual assault. At that time the police believed that the murders happened elsewhere, and the bodies had been dumped in the car since there was not much blood in the car itself.