Welcome back to missing. I am Tim here today with Lance Lance. How are you today? I'm doing fantastic today Tim. I hope everyone out there is doing great.

You seem a little tense.

How are you?

I'm excited.

I'm excited. Thanks a lot for asking. We're back here with part two with our friend Bill Thomas of the Mindover Murder podcast that he does with his friend,

Kristen Dilly and you can check out that podcast at mindover murder podcast dot com and make sure to check out part one. If you want to hear this entire conversation, we do goof off a little bit in the beginning of part one, but it's mostly about the colonial parkway murders.

And for those who don't know, Bill Thomas's sister Kathleen was one of the first victims of the colonial parkway murders herself and Rebecca and Dowsky were murdered on October 12th of

1986 Bill gets into that a little bit more in this conversation and it's really fascinating to hear Bill get personal about this and how he's taken that tragedy in his life and turned it into his advocacy work that he does with his podcast and with Kristen.

And check out mindover murder podcast dot com for more and you can subscribe to that wherever you get your podcasts, Bill and Kristen do a great job over there diving very deep into the colonial parkway murders cases.

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So Bill, can we talk specifically now about the cases in the colonial parkway murders. Can you tell us about the cases and its victims.

So with the colonial parkway murders, which you have are four double homicides that took place in and around lovers lanes near Williamsburg, Virginia from 1986 to 1989.

And there are some patterns that emerge. So it'll just give you a little bit of an overview. These are all couples in cars in isolated rural locations typically seen as lovers lane kind of situations.

What's interesting though is that several of the couples probably are not couples per se and we'll talk about that as we kind of go through the cases.

The first case is October 1986. My younger sister Kathy Thomas who was 27 and her girlfriend Rebecca Dowsky, who was 21 are out on a date on a Thursday evening.

They go missing that that Thursday evening. This is near Williamsburg, Virginia. The last place Kathy and Becky are seen is at the College of William and Mary, where Becky is a senior.

And it appears that Kathy and Becky ended up on the colonial parkway, which is this 23 long mile ribbon of land along the York and James rivers near Williamsburg.

And it appears that Kathy and Becky went there to be romantic and they don't know exactly what transpired, but Kathy and Becky are found brutally murdered on the following Sunday. So you're looking at about two and a half days span between the time they went missing on Thursday evening and their bodies are found in my sisters Honda Civic along the York River.

And they were following Sunday and in Kathy and Becky's example without getting too graphic.

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