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The New York Times
2 WOMEN ARE FOUND SLAIN IN CAR
By John T. McQuiston
Oct. 14, 1986
Two women, one an Annapolis graduate and the other a College of William and Mary student from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., were found slain Sunday in a car near Yorktown, Va., an F.B.I. agent said yesterday.
The two women were identified as Rebecca Ann Dowski, 21 years old, of Poughkeepsie, a senior at William and Mary, and Cathleen Marian Thomas, 27, a stockbroker and native of Lowell, Mass., who graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and was discharged from the Navy earlier this year, according to Jack Wagner, an agent in the Norfolk office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
He said a passer-by discovered the bodies Sunday in a 1980 Honda near the bottom of an embankment along the Colonial National Historic Parkway near Yorktown on the grounds of a the United States Naval Supply Center, Cheatham Annex, 10 miles east of the William and Mary campus in Williamsburg. The car was registered in the name of Miss Thomas.
Mr. Wagner said both women were fully clothed and that there was no sign of a robbery. Their throats had been slit, he said.
Mr. Wagner declined to comment on whether the women had been sexually assaulted pending the autopsy report. He said he did not know how long the women had been dead. He said neither had been reported missing.
Mr. Wagner noted that the college had a Columbus holiday break in classes which began last Thursday and was to end tomorrow.
He said that Miss Dowski and Miss Thomas were friends and that it was not uncommon for them to meet at the Williamsburg campus. He said they were last seen Thursday evening at the campus, where Miss Dowski was majoring in business management.
He said Miss Thomas had begun working in June as a stockborker for Brokers Securities Inc., of Virginia Beach. Before her discharge from the Navy, she served as a protocol officer at Atlantic Freet headquarters in Norfolk,
Mr. Wagner said the F.B.I. was investigating the two slayings because the bodies of the two women were found on Federal property.
An agent on duty at the F.B.I. office in Norfolk said last night that there had been no arrests in the case, and that the investigation was continuing.
Campus police at William and Mary increased their tours by security officers yesterday, according to Samuel Sadler, dean of students, even though the F.B.I. said it doubted the slayings were related to Miss Dowski's attendance at the college.
2 WOMEN ARE FOUND SLAIN IN CAR
By John T. McQuiston
Oct. 14, 1986
Two women, one an Annapolis graduate and the other a College of William and Mary student from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., were found slain Sunday in a car near Yorktown, Va., an F.B.I. agent said yesterday.
The two women were identified as Rebecca Ann Dowski, 21 years old, of Poughkeepsie, a senior at William and Mary, and Cathleen Marian Thomas, 27, a stockbroker and native of Lowell, Mass., who graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and was discharged from the Navy earlier this year, according to Jack Wagner, an agent in the Norfolk office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
He said a passer-by discovered the bodies Sunday in a 1980 Honda near the bottom of an embankment along the Colonial National Historic Parkway near Yorktown on the grounds of a the United States Naval Supply Center, Cheatham Annex, 10 miles east of the William and Mary campus in Williamsburg. The car was registered in the name of Miss Thomas.
Mr. Wagner said both women were fully clothed and that there was no sign of a robbery. Their throats had been slit, he said.
Mr. Wagner declined to comment on whether the women had been sexually assaulted pending the autopsy report. He said he did not know how long the women had been dead. He said neither had been reported missing.
Mr. Wagner noted that the college had a Columbus holiday break in classes which began last Thursday and was to end tomorrow.
He said that Miss Dowski and Miss Thomas were friends and that it was not uncommon for them to meet at the Williamsburg campus. He said they were last seen Thursday evening at the campus, where Miss Dowski was majoring in business management.
He said Miss Thomas had begun working in June as a stockborker for Brokers Securities Inc., of Virginia Beach. Before her discharge from the Navy, she served as a protocol officer at Atlantic Freet headquarters in Norfolk,
Mr. Wagner said the F.B.I. was investigating the two slayings because the bodies of the two women were found on Federal property.
An agent on duty at the F.B.I. office in Norfolk said last night that there had been no arrests in the case, and that the investigation was continuing.
Campus police at William and Mary increased their tours by security officers yesterday, according to Samuel Sadler, dean of students, even though the F.B.I. said it doubted the slayings were related to Miss Dowski's attendance at the college.