After more than 38 years of unanswered questions, the FBI Norfolk Field Office, working alongside its law enforcement partners, announced Friday a resolution in the disappearances of Richard “Keith” Call of Gloucester and Cassandra Lee Hailey of Grafton. The two, both students at Christopher Newport University (then College) went missing in April 1988 and are believed to be two of the victims of the Colonial Parkway murders, a series of the serial murders of at least eight people in Virginia between 1986 and 1989. In 2024, authorities announced that at least three of the murders had been conclusively linked to an official suspect, Alan Wade Wilmer Sr., a Lancaster County fisherman who died in 2017. Last year, Wilmer was linked to a fourth murder, Laurie Ann Powell of Gloucester. In January, Wilmer was linked to two more murders. And, on Friday, the FBI announced that Wilmer was responsible for the deaths of Hailey and Call. “While their remains have never been found, investigators can ...
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