Known Victims: Keith Call and Sandra Hailey
Mar 17, 2021 18:37:02 GMT
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Post by tosh on Mar 17, 2021 18:37:02 GMT
Mar 5, 2021 23:14:29 GMT tosh said:
Cleo, granted you are right double murders are very rare. I have been really shocked though by the sheer amount of murders I’ve come across in the Virginia peninsula in the 80s. Between 1987 and 1994 , 10 men were murdered and police think they were the work of a serial killer who targeted homosexuals. Then there was a bank worker called Dottie White, 47 who lived alone and was found dead in her trailer in 1980 in Hampton, she had been stabbed brutally many times and her throat was slit. Police could see no motive for her murder and I can’t find anything to say it was ever solved. A Gloucester seafood dealer was found floating in the James River bound with boat chains in 85. Then a logging company owner was found bound and shot in the head in bushes outside Williamsburg. I don’t think anyone was ever found guilty for killing those 7-Eleven employees, Annette Singleton and Joanne Betchley in the 80s. Those are just a few but unfortunately there were a few sadistic people going around killing others. In course of reading about those I’ve come across drug trafficking, marijuana growing, sex cults and satanic rituals - some really weird stuff that you couldn’t make up if you tried and some of it taking place in rural backwater Virginia! It almost seems like there was more violent crime then than there is now.I think there are similarities between the Colonial Parkway murders and at least some of the murders in Virginia Beach in the early - mid 1980s. I suspect it was the same killer. I also suspect he could have either been military, a defense contractor, or former military who traveled to Hampton Roads on/around holidays.
Hi Fossilnerd, good to see you again!
I wonder if law enforcement ever considered a connection between the Colonial Parkway and the Virginia Beach murders? Two sets of those murders included a couple of females, one victim’s body was found in her abandoned car which had been set ablaze and one victim had her throat slashed - definitely some similarities to the murders of Cathy and Becky.