In 1984, a young couple got lost searching for a campsite in Virginia's Blue Ridge Parkway.

They decided to spend the night sleeping in their car.

They were awakened by a white male in his mid-30s at 3 a.m. Come out of the vehicle.

What the couple saw that night,

their eyewitness description of the assailant

was all that police had to go on.

When the 19-year-old woman entered 22-year-old fiancé were rousted from sleep, they assumed the man was a policeman.

Move to the rear of the vehicle, please. Blinded by his flashlight and concerned that they had broken the law,

they handed over their car keys as ordered.

Suddenly, the man produced a gun and told the fiancé to run into the woods.

He threatened to kill him if he didn't obey.

Move!

The young woman now terrified for her life was forced at gunpoint into the man's vehicle.

Open the door.

Open it.

Get in the back.

Keep your head down.

Don't look at it.

He drove her to a secluded campsite about a half hour away.

That's far enough. On your knees. And over the next two hours, repeatedly raped and

sodomized her. Although the assailant had threatened to kill her,

he left her on a deserted stretch of road

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