NEW: Bill Thomas on Colonial Parkway Murders Update

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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UPDATE: Suspect Named in one of the Colonial Parkway Murders from the 1980s. Bill Thomas, the brother of victim Cathy Thomas, is back to discuss the latest update and suspect Alan W. Wilmer Sr., who died in 2017 at 63 years old. The Colonial Parkway murders are a series of unsolved killings that took place on a scenic road in Virginia, linking Yorktown and Jamestown, two historic places. The parkway preserves the natural and cultural beauty of the region and does not allow commercial vehicles or tolls. Drivers can admire the York and James Rivers and the changing seasons along the road. Bill Thomas, the brother of Cathy Thomas, one of the victims, has been fighting for justice and awareness. Crimemuseum.org reports that a serial killer may have killed eight people on the parkway, which is federal land. The FBI may get involved in the investigations, too. The killer went after couples or individuals who parked their cars in or near lover's lane spots. The victims were not robbed or sexually assaulted, indicating that the killer had a different reason. The police have questioned 150 suspects, but none of them fit the description of the killer. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWMlX8QXxUs 13NewsNow USA Today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Slow Burn Media, Evergreen Podcasts, and Killer Podcasts,
0:08.4	Presents Who Killed, a podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.
0:12.7	On top of breaking news, after more than three decades, three local families find closure
0:19.7	in their loved ones' cold case homicides.
0:22.4	Alan Wilmer Sr. died several years ago, but tonight he's accused of killing two people in
0:27.6	Isla White County and another person in Hampton. The duo found shot to death in Isla White
0:32.5	was part of the commonly phrased Colonial Parkway murders. Angelic Carantock has the story.
0:39.1	The suspect accused of carrying out the killings is Alan Wilmer, senior of the Northern Net.
0:44.4	Because he was never in the system, he was never in the CODIS database, there was no hit.
0:49.7	So we had a common suspect. He just had not been identified.
0:52.0	It was this summer when investigators say DNA evidence
0:55.7	linked Wilmer to the victims. According to Virginia State Police, Wilmer is responsible for the death
1:01.4	of 29-year-old Teresa Terry Howell after she disappeared in Hampton in 1989. Wilmer is also accused of
1:09.4	shooting and killing 20-year-old David Knobling and 14-year-old Robin Edwards in Isle of White County in 1987.
1:17.6	The duo became known as victims in a series of double homicides coined as the Colonial Parkway Murders.
1:25.4	Hello and welcome to this week's very special episode of Who Killed. I am your host, Bill Huffman,
1:31.7	and this is a slow burn media, evergreen podcast and killer podcast production. Now, what makes
1:37.9	this week's episode so special is that I'm joined by a guest who has a very deep connection to a particular case that has been
1:48.4	widely covered in the news lately. And that is Mr. Bill Thomas. Welcome to the show. I should say
1:54.9	welcome back to the show, Bill. Thank you. I'm excited to talk with you, Bill, again. I'm a little concerned. We're going to confuse ourselves because we have two people named Bill here, both of whom are incredibly enthusiastic about talking about the Colonial Parkway murders. So I'm afraid I'm going to think I'm you and you're going to think you're me or whatever.
2:18.0	Yeah, we might go into some sort of, you know, Twilight Zone type of territory.
2:23.8	So you never know.
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