1988 Call, Richard 4-9-1988, Yorktown

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Richard Keith Call

Classification: Endangered Missing Adult
Alias / Nickname: Keith
Date of Birth: 1968-03-08
Date Missing: 1988-04-09
From City/State: Yorktown, VA
Missing From (Country): USA
Age at Time of Disappearance: 20
Gender: Male
Race: White
Height: 72 inches
Weight: 150 pounds
Hair Color: Lt. Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Complexion: Medium
Clothing: Brown and gray cardigan sweater, white polo shirt, two tone brown dress slacks, leather shoes.
Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. Richard was on his first date with Cassandra Hailey (also missing). They were last seen between 1:00am and 2:00am at the University Square Apartments across from Christopher Newport College in Yorktown, VA. His vehicle, described as a red 1982 Toyota Celica, was later located on the Colonial Pkwy in Yorktown, VA.
Investigative Agency: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Phone: (757) 727-7933
Investigative Case #: NF 70A-7670
http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/...php?A200604682S

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Richard Keith Call


Above: Call, circa 1988


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: April 10, 1988 from Newport News, Virginia
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: March 8, 1968
Age: 20 years old
Height and Weight: 6'0, 150 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Light brown hair, blue eyes. Call goes by his middle name, Keith.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A gray and brown cardigan sweater, a white polo shirt, two-tone brown dress slacks and leather shoes.


Details of Disappearance

Call went on a date with Cassandra Hailey on April 9, 1988. He picked her up at her Grafton, Virginia home and they planned to spend the day together. The couple traveled in Call's red 1982 Toyota Celica. It was their first date. They were last seen at a party in Newport News, Virginia at 1:30 a.m. on April 10. Neither of them has been seen again.
Call's vehicle was discovered abandoned at the York River Overlook on Colonial Parkway in Yorktown, Virginia at 7:00 a.m. on April 10, but it was not reported to authorities until 9:00 a.m. Nothing appeared to have been disturbed: the keys were on the driver's seat, a watch and eyeglasses were on the dashboard, and Call's wallet and $12 in cash were in the backseat. Nearly all of the clothing Call was wearing was also found in the back of the car, as were some of Hailey's clothes. Her purse was there, but her wallet was missing.

There was no trace of Hailey or Call at the overlook. Authorities initially believed they had gone swimming and drowned, but an extensive search of the river turned up no sign of them, the water temperature was in the forties the night of their disappearances, and Hailey was afraid of the water. Foul play is now suspected in both their cases.

The bodies of three other young couples, all of them college students, were found in areas located off the Colonial Parkway from 1986 through 1989. In all cases, their cars were found abandoned with most of their possessions intact inside, but only Hailey and Call's bodies have never been found. The Colonial Parkway extends for 23 miles and runs through the following Virginia cities: Yorktown, Williamsburg and Jamestown. Authorities have long suspected that a serial killer stalked and killed in that region in the mid to late 1980s. They believe the perpetrator may have impersonated a law enforcement officer in order to approach his victims.

Both Call and Hailey were students at Christopher Newport College in 1988. Their cases remain unsolved.



Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Virginia State Police
757-424-6850
OR
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
Norfolk, Virginia Office
804-455-0100



Source Information
Child Protection Education Of America
Vanished Children's Alliance
APB News
The National Center for Missing Adults
The Virginian-Pilot
The Richmond Times-Dispatch
The Daily Press



Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004.

Last updated January 14, 2007; casefile added.

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Cassandra Hailey and Keith Call
On April 9, 1988, Cassandra Lee Hailey and Richard Keith Call were reported missing after going on a first date together. Call's 1982 red Toyota Celica was found car by a ranger about 9 a.m., abandoned on the Colonial Parkway in Yorktown, Virginia the following day. "The driver's door was open and the front seat was folded forward," said Richard W. Call, Keith's father. "I noticed Keith's watch on the dashboard and a purse in the passenger seat. I didn't notice any clothing." The couple's clothing, including underwear, was on the back seat of the car. Several witnesses said the car keys were in the ignition, but Call's father said he didn't see them. Keith Call's brother, Chris was driving along the parkway when he noticed a parked car with a door or trunk open at about 4:30 a.m. He wasn't certain if it was his brother's car. An employee at the Eastern State Hospital also saw a car with an open driver's side door at about 5:30 a.m. Neither body has ever been found, but both are presumed to be dead.

Richard Keith Call was from Gloucester County. Keith was a student at Christopher Newport College.

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Here is the description from the Discovery Times website:

College freshman Cassandra Hailey and Keith Call left for their first date on April 9, 1988 and were never seen again. Now, police investigators have agreed to bring in psychics Pam Coronado and Laurie Campbell to breathe new life into this cold case.
This episode of Sensing Murder deals with the Colonial Parkway Killer, a predator that stalked the Virginia scenic route between 1986 and 1989.
The show focuses on two of the victims that were never found. Cassandra Lee Hailey and Richard Keith Call were reported missing after going on a first date together. They have never been seen again. Both are presumed to be dead, victims of the Parkway Killer.

If you have any information concerning the whereabouts of Cassandra Lee Hailey and/or Richard K. Call please contact: Virginia State Police Det. James A. Huddle 757-424-6850 OR Federal Bureau Of Investigation Norfolk, Virginia Office Agent Robert Wessells 757-424-6855

http://crimeshadows.com/news/2007/06/sensing-murder.htm

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“Hailey Hope Fund” Endowed Scholarship
Established at Christopher Newport University
News Release - May 28, 2003
contact:
Denise Waters
dwaters@cnu.edu
757-594-7331


(NEWPORT NEWS, VA)–Instead of birthday cake and candles on what would have been Cassandra Hailey’s 34th birthday, her sisters signed and sealed letters—a plea to those who may have been touched by their sister to help establish an endowed scholarship at Christopher Newport University in her honor.


Cassandra Hailey was abducted on April 9, 1988, in what police believe to be tied to a crime spree dubbed “the Parkway Murders.” The case surrounding her disappearance has never been solved. On the 15th year of her disappearance, the Hailey family has decided to establish an endowed scholarship at Christopher Newport University. “We felt there could be no better way to celebrate her memory than to establish this permanent fund that will allow other students to share her love of CNU,” explains Cassandra’s sister and Fredericksburg resident, Teri Hailey Barzditz.


In order to establish the Cassandra Hailey Endowed Scholarship, the family needs to raise a minimum of $10,000. The family has committed $5,000 to the endowment, $4,000 of which was left from contributions to aid the search. The family is seeking donations for the remainder of the funds required for the “Hailey Hope Fund.”


For more information on the “Hailey Hope Fund,” please contact Jack Sims, vice-president for University Advancement at 757-594-8759 or email jsims@cnu.edu. To make a charitable, tax-deductible gift to the endowment, send contributions to the Christopher Newport University Educational Foundation, Christopher Newport University, 1 University Place, Newport News, VA 23606. Please write Hailey Hope Fund on the check’s memo.

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Colonial Parkway Killer
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Colonial Parkway Killer is the name given to an apparent serial killer believed to have murdered at least eight people along the Colonial Parkway of the U.S. state of Virginia (or nearby) between 1986 and 1989. During that time, four couples were murdered, or in the case of one pair, are missing and presumed to be dead.

The first two known victims were Cathleen Thomas, 27, and Rebecca Ann Dowski, 21. The lesbian couple liked to park on the Colonial Parkway for privacy. On October 12, 1986, their bodies were found inside their car, which had been pushed down an embankment on the parkway near an area of the parkway that was popular with gay couples. An autopsy found rope burns on their necks and wrists, signs of strangulation, and their throats had been slashed. Their purses and money were found inside the car, and there were no signs of a struggle. Both women were fully clothed and there was no evidence of sexual assault. (As an aside, Thomas was one of 100 women in the United States Naval Academy class of 1981, which was the second graduating class that was coeducational at federal service academies.)

In September 1987, David Knobling, 20, and Robin Edwards, 14, were found murdered in the Ragged Island Wildlife Refuge, on the south shore of the James River in Isle of Wight County, near Smithfield, Virginia. Knobling's truck was found at the refuge several days before the bodies were discovered.

On April 9, 1988, Cassandra Lee Hailey and Richard Keith Call were reported missing after their first date together. Call's vehicle was found, unoccupied, on the Colonial Parkway the next day. Neither body has been found, but both are presumed dead.

In October 1989, the bodies of Annamarie Phelps, 18, and Daniel Lauer, 21, were found in New Kent County by a hunter in the woods near a rest area on Interstate 64 between Williamsburg and Richmond. They had been missing since the previous month.

In 1996, the unsolved case of the Colonial Parkway Killer was presented on national television on the program Real Stories of the Highway Patrol, a series that aired from 1993-1999. Actor Steve Altes portrayed the killer.

As of November 2005, the killer has not yet been identified. Investigators have speculated that the suspect might be a law enforcement officer, someone impersonating one, or perhaps a rogue operative from the Central Intelligence Agency, which reportedly has a training facility nearby at Camp Peary in York County. Other investigators believe the killings were committed by more than one person working as a team.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Parkway_Killer

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Cassandra Hailey and Keith Call

On April 9, 1988, Cassandra Lee Hailey and Richard Keith Call were reported missing after going on a first date together. Call's 1982 red Toyota Celica was found car by a ranger about 9 a.m., abandoned on the Colonial Parkway in Yorktown, Virginia the following day. "The driver's door was open and the front seat was folded forward," said Richard W. Call, Keith's father. "I noticed Keith's watch on the dashboard and a purse in the passenger seat. I didn't notice any clothing." The couple's clothing, including underwear, was on the back seat of the car. Several witnesses said the car keys were in the ignition, but Call's father said he didn't see them. Keith Call's brother, Chris, was driving along the parkway when he noticed a parked car with a door or trunk open at about 4:30 a.m. He wasn't certain if it was his brother's car. An employee at the Eastern State Hospital also saw a car with an open driver's side door at about 5:30 a.m. Neither body has ever been found, but both are presumed to be dead.

Richard Keith Call was from Gloucester County. Keith was a student at Christopher Newport College. Cassandra Lee Hailey was born May 16, 1969. She was 18 years old at the time of her disappearance. Ms. Hailey was a student at Christopher Newport College. She was described as 5'7, weighing 135 pounds. She was Caucasian with brown curly hair and brown eyes. Her left ear has three piercings, her right ear is pierced twice. Hailey was last seen wearing stone-washed jeans; and a white blouse worn over a rust-colored jersey turtleneck with long sleeves. She was also wearing a 1987 Tabb High School class ring. Nicknames include Sandra, Sandy, Missy, Cassie

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FBI to revisit 21-year-old cold case
Victim's family meets with agents in N.N.
Updated: Thursday, 08 Oct 2009, 12:47 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 07 Oct 2009, 4:28 PM EDT

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - After missing for 21 years, the family of Keith Call met with the FBI on Wednesday.

Call and his friend, Cassandra Hailey, disappeared after a date on April 10, 1988 from the Colonial Parkway.

Joyce Call, who still lives in Gloucester County, told WAVY.com, "After all these years we want the FBI to tell us they haven't forgotten about Keith and Cassandra...my mother and father died never knowing what happened."

The meeting took place at the FBI office in Newport News. The FBI said they are putting an agent in charge of the case and they are doing a bottom-up review of all the facts.

"I want it to lead to someone being convicted and found who did this to my brother I want resolution. Somebody knows something out there I mean how can they not," said Joyce Call.

The Calls say they'll never give up, they're just glad investigators are back on their side.

"We're gonna stick it out, that's what we're going to do. We're going to try to do the best we can to get this to a resolution," said Doug Call.

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Unsolved Murders of Young Lovers Get New Focus in Va.Updated: 9 hours 50 minutes ago
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AOL News (March 30) -- The victims, eight in all, came in pairs. Many were young lovers who apparently met their fates mid-assignation. Each of the homicides occurred along the scenic 23-mile route between Jamestown and Yorktown in Virginia, giving them a ready name: the Colonial Parkway murders.

Due to the shared location and other similarities among the deaths, law enforcement officials viewed them as the work of a possible serial killer. But since the first one took place in October 1986, the murders have all remained unsolved.

Now, the cases are getting renewed attention, and officials say that new tools give them a shot at finally solving the two-decade-old puzzle.

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"We are very hopeful that today's technology -- advancements in DNA testing and analysis -- and a fresh look at the evidence will lead to a successful conclusion," Alex J. Turner, special agent in charge of the FBI's Norfolk, Va., division, told AOL News. Along with sending fingerprints and trace evidence for testing, the bureau has doubled the reward it is offering for fruitful tips.

The Virginia State Police are also re-examining the cases and the pathological agenda that may link them.

"Any time you have multiple crimes within close geographic proximity and there are similarities between those crimes, you have to be open to the possibility that those crimes are related," said Virginia State Police Special Agent Keenon Hook. "You pursue every reasonable hypothesis and logical conclusion, and that is what we are doing."

When investigators first started digging into the Parkway Murders, said Turner, they put together a suspect list that eventually ran to 100 people. "Many of those were eliminated initially. But we are starting with the entire list of individuals and going back through them again," he said, as officers search for the killer, or killers, responsible for the chilling crimes that took place two decades ago in a historic corner of the Old Dominion State.

Bodies One and Two

Cathleen Marian Thomas was a 27-year-old native of Lowell, Mass. She had graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and was working as a stockbroker in Norfolk.

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Cathleen Marian Thomas
"I know people use the expression 'the best and the brightest' pretty frequently, but my sister was that kind of person," Cathleen's brother, Bill Thomas, told AOL News. "She was brilliant and beautiful."

According to Bill, Cathleen had recently started dating Rebecca Ann Dowski, a 21-year-old business management major and standout softball player from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg.

"Rebecca was a lot like Cathy," Bill said. "She was very attractive, very accomplished."

On the evening of Oct. 9, 1986, Cathleen and Rebecca had been hanging out with two friends at a computer lab when they left to spend some time together. What happened to them after that remained a mystery until three days later, when a jogger running along the York River by the Colonial Parkway spotted Cathleen's white Honda Civic on the edge of an embankment.

"When the first officer on the scene reported there, he thought they were dealing with a traffic accident," Bill said. "So he went down and smashed the back window. It was then that he saw the mess inside the car."

Rebecca was found in the back seat. Cathleen was stuffed in the hatchback's storage area. Both women had been strangled, and their throats were cut. The injuries to Cathleen were so extreme that she was nearly decapitated.

The perpetrator had attempted to set the Honda on fire using kerosene or diesel fuel -- several matches were found scattered around the car -- and when that failed, he apparently tried to push the vehicle over into the river, only to have it snag on the brush.

Both victims' purses and money were found inside the car, and the county medical examiner found no signs of sexual assault.

The possibility that they had been targeted for their sexuality led to speculation that the killing might have been a hate crime. But less than a year later came evidence that another motive could have been at play.

"That Was How We Found Out: Watching TV"

Virginia authorities found themselves in the middle of a second double homicide when the bodies of David Lee Knobling, a 20-year-old man from Hampton, and Robin M. Edwards, a 14-year-old girl from Newport News, turned up in the Ragged Island Wildlife Refuge the following fall.

"On Sept. 19, 1987, my sister had gone out on a date with David's cousin," Janette Santiago, Robin's sister, recalled in an interview. "They were supposed to go see a movie, so I guess David volunteered to take them. He had a little truck, so the boys let Robin sit upfront. They must have hit it off, because David dropped her off at the house and then came back to pick her up after he took everybody else home."

As in the case of Cathleen and Rebecca, a jogger alerted police to the scene.

David's pickup was found near the wildlife refuge at the foot of the James River Bridge. The keys were in the ignition, and David's wallet was on the dashboard. Items of clothing belonging to both David and Robin were also in the car.

There was no sign of struggle at the scene, and it was unclear whether the couple had met with foul play until their bodies washed ashore downstream. Both had been shot in the back of the head.

"Earlier that day, my parents had given an interview to the media, asking my sister to return home, so we were all sitting around the TV expecting to see that interview," Janette recalls. "Then, boom, here comes the headlines. ... That was how we found out: watching TV."

While there were some differences between the killings of Thomas, Dowski, Knobling and Edwards -- particularly in the killer's methods -- the commonalities meant a connection could not entirely be ruled out.

A Tragic First Date and a Deepening Mystery

Roughly six months later, the headlines would once again be dominated by another, and similar, case.

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Richard "Keith" Call
Richard "Keith" Call was a 20-year-old college student on April 9, 1988. He had big plans for the night: He was embarking on his first date with Cassandra Lee Hailey, an 18-year-old woman from Grafton.

"They shared a class or two at college," said his sister, Joyce Call-Canada. "Keith picked her up, and they headed over to a cookout in Newport News. They stayed there until sometime between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m."

Approximately eight hours later, on April 10, Call's vehicle was found abandoned at the York River Overlook on the Colonial Parkway.

Keith and Joyce's father, Richard W. Call, was one of the first people to spot the car as he passed it on his way to work. Not noticing anything overly out of the ordinary, he figured Keith might have left it there to jump into a friend's.

"His mind just didn't go to something terrible, and he went ahead to work," Call-Canada said.

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Cassandra Lee Hailey
Later that day, Keith's father received a call from park rangers, who had encountered a very different scene.

"The rangers said the door was wide open and the keys were lying in the car," Call-Canada said. "They also found Keith's wallet, glasses and watch in the car, along with Cassandra's purse, bra and just one of her shoes.

"We just don't know how that stuff got back in [the car]. The only thing we could think of was that the killer came back and put them there," she said.

Multiple searches were conducted for Keith and Cassandra, but no other trace of them has ever been found.
Less than two years later, two more families would lose loved ones in the same area.

Found Side by Side

"My sister, Annamarie Phelps, had just turned 18," Rosanne Phelps said. "She had a boyfriend who was a little younger, and he had a sister who lived at the beach, and they wanted to move to her house."

A friend of Phelps' boyfriend, 21-year-old Daniel Lauer, was also moving into the beach house, and over Labor Day weekend in 1989 she helped him pack up his belongings.

"We didn't hear anything from them the next day," said Phelps. "We tried to contact them, [and then] we learned that Daniel's car had been found parked at a rest area on the westbound side of I-64."

The case fit a pattern investigators had encountered before: Lauer's keys were found in the ignition, and items of clothing belonging to both of them were found inside the car. Annamarie's purse was left untouched.

Several searches were conducted but failed to uncover any signs of the young couple.

"I remember the weather was really bad, and there was a lot rain," Phelps said. "I remember praying and crying, 'Please don't let my sister be out there in the rain.'"

That October, a hunter came upon the couple's skeletal remains less than a mile from the rest area where Lauer's car had been found.

"They were found side by side," Phelps said. "My sister was wrapped in a blanket. They had been stabbed, and my sister had defensive wounds, suggesting she had fought very hard for her life."

Controversy Yields New Momentum

As the Colonial Parkway Murders went unsolved, they became a source of controversy.

In 1997, Phelps' parents filed a lawsuit against best-selling author Patricia Cornwell, who at one time had worked at the medical examiner's office that had handled the killings of Lauer and Phelps. They claimed that she'd obtained a copy of the autopsy report and included previously unreleased details of their daughter's death in her novel "All That Remains," which Cornwell's Web site describes as the story of a killer who targets "attractive young couples whose bodies are inevitably found in the woods months later."

The couple said the book violated their privacy and caused emotional pain. A judge later dismissed the case.

The unsolved slayings made headlines again in 2009, when authorities were notified that a number of crime scene photographs regarding the Colonial Parkway homicides had been "inappropriately taken" from the FBI's Norfolk office. The photographs were being used as a training tool for a security company, and a number of the images had been leaked to the media.

"There were 84 graphic photographs in all," Bill Thomas, brother of Cathleen Thomas, said. "This security school, for whatever reason, apparently felt that students in their security program could benefit from viewing them."

An investigation was launched, and in December 2009, Special Agent Turner held a press conference during which he said the photos had been taken without approval by a "former non-agent" employee. Turner added that the employee had since died but that the FBI had seized all copies of the photographs from his estate, the civilian training agency and two other individuals.

As unsavory as the crime scene photos revelation was, it appeared to kick the investigation of the homicides back into high gear. Almost immediately, Special Agent Philip J. Mann announced the FBI was conducting a "top-to-bottom" review of the cases in its jurisdiction: those of Cathleen Thomas, Rebecca Dowski, Richard "Keith" Call and Cassandra Lee Hailey.

Other Gruesome Connections Explored

Over the years, some have speculated that there could be a link between the eight Colonial Parkway murders and still other killings.

One is the Route 29 stalker case from 1996, in which a man in a pickup truck flagged down young women, told them something was dangerously wrong with their cars and offered them a ride. One, Alicia Showalter Reynolds, apparently accepted, and wound up murdered.

A second -- and, experts say, more credible -- candidate is the Shenandoah Park murders.

"There are striking similarities," said Chris Yarbrough, a computer programmer who operates a Web site devoted to the Colonial Parkway murders.

In 1996, the bodies of two women, Julianne Williams, 24, and Lollie Winans, 26, were discovered in one of the park's campgrounds. As with Dowski and Thomas, their throats had been slit. As with the earlier victims, both were strong athletes, yet there were no signs of struggle.

Special Agents Turner and Hook won't comment on individual cases, but both agree anything is possible.

"[It] is purely conjecture," Turner said. "[But] I will tell you [that] our investigator, along with the investigator from all of these homicides, have and will continue to share notes and determine whether or not there are any ties."

Profiling the Possible Killer

In an effort to determine if all of the Colonial Parkway cases are indeed connected and whether some of the other cases could be tied in, AOL News asked an expert to look them over and share her opinion.

"What I find particularly unusual about the murders is that, each time, there were two victims," said criminal profiler Pat Brown. "This is quite rare for serial killers; they usually pick one isolated, smaller individual whom they can overpower. This killer or killers had to deal with two, which is much more work.

"Clearly, the killer was armed. Even if we did not have evidence that anyone was shot during the assaults, a gun would be necessary to control two people. One person can control two people with the right words, weapon and tools."

Brown said an important clue in the cases is that in some of them, the driver's window had been rolled down.

"This would indicate someone approached the vehicle and was likely thought to be a police officer," she said. "It would seem, considering the cars were pulled off the road in isolated places and the victims were in various stages of undress, that the killer liked to pull up to cars he believed had couples in them, involved in some manner of lovemaking."

Since rape does not appear to be a motive, Brown said she believes the perpetrator wanted to "teach the couples a lesson."

"Most likely, the killer was jealous of their activities," she said. "The couples were killed because they were having too much fun, and the murderer put a stop to it. This kind of ideation, this anger toward the trysts of lovers, the lack of robbery or rape, indicates that the crimes were more likely committed by one person with a very specific focus. If two [killers] were involved, the other individual would likely offer more criminal expressions than simply eliminating the couple."

Brown said the perpetrator could be involved in law enforcement or, more likely, "wished he were."

"He wanted authority and probably did not have it," she said. "His crimes gave him this feeling: He was able to surprise, control and punish 'wrongdoers.'"

The only one of the other Virginia killings Brown finds potentially related is the Shenandoah Park case, because it involved "an individual noting two persons engaging in a physical relationship and moving in to stop the action."

Holding Out Hope, Together

It has been 20 years since the last Colonial Parkway murders. The renewed investigative push, aided by advances in DNA, may finally bring some answers. But Special Agent Turner said it will take at least six months for his office to get the results of the materials it is having tested -- and even then, the mysteries may remain unsolved. And so the wait continues.

Meanwhile, Joyce Call-Canada said her hopes aren't pinned on new technology but on an old-fashioned bout of morals.

"My hope is that someday, somebody will get a conscience," she said. "Somebody has to know something. If it is not the person who did it, then somebody that knows that person and knows they did it."

In their shared losses, the families of the victims have been forever bonded. With the renewed investigation, they have been reunited again.

"The [victims'] families have been brought back together again," said Janette Santiago. "Unfortunately, the murders are the reason, but we are together, and we are all united in hope. Even if we can get just one case solved, it would be a great victory for all of us."
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Age: 41
Sex: Male
Race: White
Hair: Sandy Eyes: Blue
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 160lbs
Missing From: Norfolk, Virginia
Missing Since: 04/10/1988

Details: Richard Keith Call was last seen on April 10, 1988. Richard goes by the name "Keith" He was in the company of a female in the Newport News area.

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Grandad Bandit Heats Up Cold Case
The suspected grandad bandit was once a suspect in the serial killings known as the Colonial Parkway Murders. After his arrest, an investigator contact the FBI to let them know of the link.
Catie Beck Staff reporter
August 15, 2010

RICHMOND - Family members of Anna Phelps say that after twenty years new leads are renewing their hope that the Colonial Parkways muders case could see a close. This week when police arrested suspected serial robber, another potential lead came in.

"I'm mad. I want it solved and i want the person off the streets," said Rosanna Sedivy, Phelp's sister.

Sedivy was barely twenty-one when her younger sister Anna was murdered. She says back then she was too young to process the pain. Now she wants justice and is confident it's coming.

"It really is overwhelming all of these possible leads..it just adds more to the case than we are used to," said Sedivy.

The latest lead came this week when FBI agents arrested the grandad bandit. Micheal Mara is accused of robbing 25 banks across 13 states including one in Richmond. Detective Robert Lunsford in Chesapeake, Virginia recognized mara's face as a man he once suspected had involement in the Colonial Parkway murders.

"I told him i think you're a serial killer and he didn't deny it. he basically taunted me to find the evidence," said Lunsford.

He questioned Mara when he was arrested in 1995 for stealing guns. He says he learned Mara had multiple personalities and found suspicious items in his vehicle.

"The van was blackened out and had a police radio, police lights and a federal badge, knives and duck tape and the back seat removed," said Lunsford.

Mara served time for the robbery but was out in 2004. After a new call from lunsford, detectives are now taking a second look at Mara.

"In our case everybody is a suspect but he's definitely more of a suspect because of his behavior," said Lunsford.

He's a former suspect accused of another serial crime and it's raising interest among victim's families. The FBI arrested Mara in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Wednesday. Shortly he will be transported back to Virginia where he will face armed robbery charges.

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Scenic road still associated with murders
From the Newport News, Va., Daily Press
August 4, 1996

An emergency call box hangs on a pole near the Felgates Creek bridge. The box was installed after a disappearance in 1988 and a double murder in 1986 near the site.

Longtime Yorktown resident Jan Twyman, who often works in Williamsburg, will travel out of her way to avoid the Colonial Parkway after dark, and she has given her three children strict orders not to drive there at night.

Stephanie Reiss and Joanna Reading, archaeological graduate students at the College of William and Mary who have lived here only a year, have heard the stories that still circulate and are wary when they travel to their dig in Yorktown.

They and hundreds of others who can't help but think of stories of murder when they drive the scenic, pastoral parkway all share the same kind of trepidation: If the unthinkable happened to the others, could it happen to them?

A decade has passed since two women were found dead with their throats slashed on the Colonial Parkway, and eight years since the car of a still-missing young couple was discovered on the popular tourist drive that connects Yorktown and Williamsburg.

The 1986 deaths of Rebecca Dowski and Cathleen Thomas and the 1988 disappearance of Keith Call and Cassandra Hailey remain unsolved.

It's been years - and yet the specter of a killer stalks still on the Parkway.

Most men and women live through each day using basic assumptions on what to expect from the people around them, says Larry Ventis, a William and Mary clinical psychology professor who also has a part-time private practice. Those assumptions vary but usually include that most people are decent, he said.

At the same time, the one thing that unites all people is the daily, if mostly unconscious, denial that death can occur any day, any time, to anyone, he said.

A grisly murder, especially an unsolved one, both shatters people's basic assumptions about each other and violently brings to surface the knowledge that death will happen and could happen unexpectedly, Ventis said.

"That can be terribly disorienting,'' Ventis said.

The place where the grisly, unexpected death was discovered becomes a "reminder of not the area, but of our own vulnerability,'' Ventis said.

Dale Congrove, another Yorktown resident, knows the disorientation well. He and his family were camping in Shenandoah National Park in June, the same month the bodies of two women campers were found dead there, also with their throats slashed.

"After hearing about it, it made you wonder if it could happen to you,'' Congrove said.

Noting a number of similarities in the case, FBI officials last month said they are exploring whether the Shenandoah and Dowski-Thomas murders might be connected.

FBI, state and local law enforcement officials already believe a serial killer or killers are responsible for the disappearance of Call and Hailey, the murder of Dowski and Thomas, and the deaths of at least two other couples between 1986 and 1989.

In 1987 the bodies of David Knobling and Robin Edwards were found at Ragged Island Wildlife Refuge. In 1989, the bodies of Daniel Lauer and his brother's girlfriend, Annamaria Phelps, was found near the New Kent County westbound rest stop on Interstate 64.

Because of their proximity and similarity, the four cases have been dubbed the Parkway murders. But there is no evidence that any of the victims were initially accosted on the Parkway.

The cases all have baffled investigators. Particularly concerning is an apparent lack of any struggle in each incident, as if the dead and missing each met their fate without a fight. Some have speculated that perhaps the killer or killers posed as law enforcement officers.

That has led Twyman to instruct her children also not to stop on the Parkway even if pulled over by a law officer unless other people are around. Both Reading and Reiss expressed similar concerns.

Twyman understands her caution may be more reactionary than rational. The idea that an officer may be involved in the killings is likely ``without any founding,'' Twyman acknowledges with a shrug.

"But the stories are there.''

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What happened to Richard Keith Call and Cassandra Lee Hailey?

January 22, 2010
By David Lohr

Richard "Keith" Call, 20, and Cassandra Lee Hailey, 18, intended to have fun on April 9, 1988. The two Virginia college students were embarking on their first date. Instead, something tragic happened, and they vanished without a trace. To date, no sign of them has ever been found, and authorities suspect a serial killer may be responsible.

"Keith had picked Cassandra up from her home in Grafton, and from what we have been told, they headed over to University Square Apts. in Newport News, which was near the college they attended," Keith's sister, Joyce Call-Canada, said in an interview with Investigation Discovery. "They were last seen sometime between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m."

Roughly eight hours after they were last seen, Keith's vehicle was found abandoned at the York River Overlook on Colonial Pkwy. in Yorktown.

"My father, Richard W. Call, traveled the parkway frequently in the early morning hours," Joyce said. "That particular morning he was on his way to work and spotted Keith's car. He found it very peculiar to see the car there, as Keith did not frequent the parkway."

When Keith's father looked inside the car, he did not notice any of his son's clothing or belongings inside. Assuming Keith had left his car there and gone somewhere with a friend, his father continued on to work.

"Not long after my father left, a park ranger came along and spotted the car," Joyce said. "When he looked inside, he saw the keys on the driver's seat, a watch and eyeglasses on the dashboard, and Keith's wallet lying in the backseat. Nearly all of the clothing he had been wearing was also found in the back of the car, as were some of Cassandra's clothes. Her purse was there, but her wallet was missing."

It remains unclear why Keith's father did not take notice of the items observed by the park ranger. Were they simply overlooked, or were they not there when he looked inside? No one knows for certain. What is known is that no trace of Keith or Cassandra has been found since. Speculation immediately pointed to a serial killer, due to a rash of similar unsolved homicides in the area.

• Rebecca Ann Dowski and Cathleen Marian Thomas

On Oct. 12, 1986, a jogger discovered the bodies of 21-year-old Rebecca Ann Dowski and 27-year-old Cathleen Marian Thomas inside their car next to the York River. Both victims were fully clothed, and their purses and money were found inside their car. An examination by the county medical examiner revealed that both women had rope burns on their necks and wrists. There were obvious signs of strangulation, and their throats had been cut. Further examination revealed that they had also been doused in diesel fuel although their remains had not been burned. The coroner found no sign of sexual assault. The case remains unsolved.

• David Lee Knobling and Robin M. Edwards

On Sept. 20, 1987, the partially-clothed bodies of 20-year-old David Lee Knobling and 14-year-old Robin M. Edwards were discovered in the Ragged Island Wildlife Refuge. Prior to the discovery, David's pickup truck was found abandoned near the refuge. The keys to the vehicle were in the ignition, and police found no obvious sign of a struggle. According to friends, David and Robin were new acquaintances and had recently met at a local video arcade.

The murders of Rebecca, Cathleen, David and Robin raised eyebrows among police and members of the media. If a serial killer was responsible, did Keith and Cassandra meet the same fate? Unfortunately, less than six months later while police were attempting to answer those questions, yet another deceased couple was found.

• Daniel Lauer and Ann Marie Phelps

On Sept. 5, 1989, authorities found Daniel's 1973 Chevy Nova parked at a rest area off Route 64 in New Kent County. The keys were found inside the vehicle, along with Ann's purse and clothing belonging to Daniel. The couple was nowhere to be found, and their disappearance remained a mystery until the following month when a hunter found their bodies in a wooded area less than a mile from where the vehicle was discovered. Because the bodies were in an advanced state of decomposition, the county coroner was unable to determine an exact cause of death.

All of the unsolved homicides occurred along the scenic 23-mile route between Jamestown and Yorktown. Because the murders of Cathleen, Rebecca, Keith and Cassandra occurred within the geographical boundaries of the United States Park Service, the FBI is investigating those cases, whereas the cases involving David, Robin, Daniel and Ann are being investigated by the Virginia State Police. Each of the investigations remains active.

On Dec. 18, 2009, FBI Special Agent Philip J. Mann issued a press release stating that his agency was conducting an official review of the two cases the agency is investigating.

"On Nov. 30, 2009, members of my staff met with personnel assigned to the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Va., and reviewed all of the physical evidence in this case," Mann said. "As a result, items of evidence were identified by laboratory personnel as good specimens for advanced nuclear DNA testing. In addition, numerous items were identified for further latent print examination. Therefore, those items are being prepared by my staff for shipment to the FBI Laboratory for examination or re-examination."

In the press release, Mann also commented on the cases being handled by the Virginia State Police.

"Due to the similarities between the FBI and Virginia State Police cases, there continues to be a belief that the cases are related. Both the FBI and the VSP are working together with this theory in mind; however, no conclusive physical evidence has been developed tying all of the homicides together," he said.

There has been no word yet on whether any new leads have been developed as a result of the DNA testing. Meanwhile, Joyce remains committed to finding out what happened to her brother.

"We have been desperately searching for my brother for over 20 years now," she said. "We loved him very much. For me and my family, it is hard to go through life not having any answers as to where his remains are and what happened to him and Cassandra. They deserve more than this. He was a kind, loving individual. He was here, he was a part of us, our family. He was here one minute and gone the next, just wiped off the face of the earth…nothing, no goodbyes. Keith had his whole life ahead of him, and some very sick people took it away."

Richard "Keith" Call is described as a white male, 6 feet tall, 150 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a gray and brown cardigan sweater, a white polo shirt, two-tone brown dress slacks and leather shoes

Cassandra Lee Hailey is described as a white female, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 135 pounds, with curly brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing stone-washed jeans and a white blouse. She was also wearing a 1987 Tabb High School class ring.

The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest and successful prosecution of the person(s) responsible for the murders of Cathleen, Rebecca, Keith and Cassandra. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Norfolk FBI at 757-455-0100. Calls regarding the other cases should be directed to the Virginia State Police at 757-424-6850.