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The United States A lover's lane is the perfect place for a young couple to enjoy a moment of privacy.

But it's also the perfect place for a serial killer to find

his next pair of victims. During the late 1980s, a series of murders began along the length of

Virginia's 22-mile colonial parkway. The parkway provides a connection between Yorktown,

Jamestown, and Williamsburg, and runs directly through the Colonial National Historic Park.

While it's a scenic drive in many places, many sections of the road didn't have any lighting, and as soon as the sunset, these isolated dark corners became a popular place for young couples to park their cars

and hook up.

None of those couples suspected that there was another person out there in the dark waiting

for the right moment to attack.

The first victims were a lesbian couple, 21-year-old college senior Rebecca Dowski, who was known as Becky,

and 27-year-old Kathleen Thomas, who was known as Kathy.

Becky and Kathy were last seen at a college computer lab the evening of October 9, 1986,

and for three days, there was no sign of them. Finally, in the early morning

of October 12th, a jogger saw a white Honda that had been left in an embankment off the side

of the Colonial Parkway. That vehicle belonged to Kathy Thomas. The jogger reported the vehicle,

and when the highway patrol arrived, they found

Becky and Kathy's bodies inside the parked car. Becky's body was in the back seat, but Kathy

had been placed inside the Honda's hatchback. It was immediately clear that foul play was

involved. Both victims had been strangled, and their

attacker had used a sharp weapon to then cut their throats. The neck wounds were so deep that they

had both been almost completely decapitated. There were signs of rope burn marks around their

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