#32: Cathy Thomas and Becky Dowski - The Colonial Parkway Murders

Real Crime Profile

Real Crime Profile / Wondery

Exhibit C, Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.2 • 10.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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The Real Crime Profile team (Jim Clemente, Laura Richards and Lisa Zambetti) are honored to be joined by special guest, Bill Thomas, brother of Cathy Thomas. Cathy and Rebecca Dowski were found strangled with their throats cut at a Colonial Parkway overlook on October 12, 1986. From 1986 to 1989, four young couples died at the hands of what the FBI long ago concluded was most likely the work of a serial killer, or killers. Nobody was ever arrested. Our profiling team, Jim and Laura, dive deep into this case and offer insight into the cases that are linked and a profile of the killer. Thank you to our sponsors Audible and Blue Apron! You can support the show and visit them here: www.blueapron.com/realcrime www.audible.com/realcrime See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	You're listening at free on Wondry Plus.
0:04.0	Hello and welcome back to Real Crime Profile.
0:31.0	This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI profiler and former New York City prosecutor currently,
0:36.0	writer and producer on CBS's Criminal Minds.
0:40.0	Today with me is...
0:42.0	Laura Richards, I'm a Criminal Behavioral Analyst and I'm also Director and Founder of Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service.
0:49.0	And Lisa Zambetti, I am the casting director for Criminal Minds and Beyond Forters.
0:56.0	Well, today listeners we have a very special guest and I want to introduce you to Bill Thomas.
1:03.0	Bill, would you mind telling our listeners who you are and what you do?
1:06.0	Sure, I'm Bill Thomas.
1:09.0	Professionally I'm the outgoing Associate Executive Director at the Art Directors Guild here in Los Angeles.
1:15.0	And I'm also sadly the brother of a murder victim, Kathy Thomas, who is killed as part of the colonial parkway murders.
1:21.0	Yeah, well, we're very sorry that that happened to your sister and our goal here today as we sort of have instituted in this podcast is to look at cases, unfortunately violent criminal cases, but from a victim's perspective.
1:39.0	We want to bring life to the victims and speak for the victims.
1:44.0	So we're very happy to have you here today and we'd like to know obviously much more about Kathy.
1:50.0	But first, can you tell us an overview of the colonial parkway murders case?
1:56.0	What is it? How many victims? When did it happen and so forth?
2:00.0	Sure. What the colonial parkway murders, what you have, it's a series of murders of eight young people, four couples, in and around the Williamsburg Virginia area.
2:11.0	From 1986 to 1989, what you have are four couples, one gay and three straight, who were murdered approximately one couple of years, four years in a row from 1986 to 1989.
2:25.0	And then the murders apparently stop. There are other potentially other related cases that might be related to the colonial parkway murders, but they appear to have a beginning and an end.
2:36.0	Two of the cases are FBI cases because of where the cars were found. They were on federal property at the colonial parkway.
2:43.0	And two of the cases are Virginia State police cases because they were found off the colonial parkway.
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