David Knobling and Robin Edward According to NBC, their love was a new, budding thing that would never get the chance to flourish. Due to the shared location and other similarities, some suspect the killings are the work of a possible serial killer. All rights reserved. The pair went on a date, seeing a movie and attending a party, on April 9, 1988. The Colonial Parkway Murders were a series of homicides that occurred between October 1986 and September 1989. Who Killed?: The Colonial Parkway Murders: Part - Apple Podcasts For more than 20 years, the Colonial Parkway Serial Killer has kept his secrets. We're a little less trusting," Phelps said. Thomas had also entered a relationship with Dowski, and the two were known to regularly visit the area where they were murdered. They detail where the knives slashed and the bullets struck. Colonial Parkway Murders Remain Unsolved - Historic Mysteries What really made these murders stand out was their complexity that fact that couples and not individuals were the targets; their setting a brazen attack done in an area steeped in our Nations history, which made them even more morbid and profane to the collective subconscious; their wild and oftentimes misleading media coverage the murders are still prime fodder for all sorts of sensational series, books, and podcasts; and finally, the disquieting realization that the killer was never identified and that he or she will most likely escape any justice. The sightseeing is prime. Nonetheless, inconclusive MRI scans appear to show that at least one of the bodies might have suffered knife wounds. However, the young couple was struggling financially, so Lauer had agreed to move in with them to help them out with money. The police attribute these eight murders to the same killer because of similarities in each case. However, on their way back to Virginia Beach to start a new chapter in their lives, they vanished. And he would find it. Less than a year later another young couple went missing.