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When Jim and Tim Clemente were growing up in Queens, their mother, a nurse, hoped they would go into medicine. Her sons had other ideas. It was the late 1960s, and gruff, heroic cops were always on TV, sprinting down alleys and tackling suspects. The brothers were temperamentally distinct Jim was the thoughtful outsider, inclined to think his way through problems, while Tim was the adrenaline junkie with an uncanny ability to withstand pain. But they both agreed that catching bad guys seemed like a fun thing to do for a living. “Jim wanted to be a detective,” Tim told me. “I wanted to be a cop.” The brothers eventually got their way, and by the 1990s, both were working as FBI agents. Although their career paths were similar, their differences persisted. “I like to get into offenders’ minds, to figure out how they tick,” Jim told me, whereas Tim “says he like
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Between 1986 and 1989, four double homicides occurred on or near the Colonial Parkway in Virginia. A suspect has never been identified in any of the murders.
By Oxygen Staff
One Virginia highway. Three years. Eight people dead. And over 30 years later, still no leads.
Between 1986 to 1989, four double homicides occurred near or on the Colonial Parkway, a 23-mile scenic roadway that cuts through Virginia. In 1986, Cathy Thomas and girlfriend Rebecca Dowski were strangled to death and their throats were slashed. In 1987, David Knobling and Robin Edwards were shot to death. In 1988, Cassandra Hailey and Richard “Keith” Call completely vanished. Only their vehicle was located, close to where Thomas and Dowski were murdered. In 1989, Annamaria Phelps and Daniel Lauer were found dead in the woods. No one has been arrested for any of the murders.
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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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10/9c on Oxygen, offers a fresh perspective on the unresolved murders that claimed the lives of eight young men and women over four consecutive years and continue to haunt the parkway area to this day.
Evidence that the Colonial Parkway murders are still on people’s minds can be found online and not just in periodic news stories about developments in DNA evidence in relationship to the case or in true crime blogs, but in a forum far from forensic science: TripAdvisor.
“There is no toll or charge but it is run by the Forest Service so don’t get caught speeding and you might want to keep a lookout for the Colonial Parkway Murderer of the 80’s - He was never caught,” reads one review. And that’s just one of a few cautionary comments posted over the years that turned up during a February 2021 search of the site.