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Military Ordnance Shuts Down Mystic Valley Parkway: Massachusetts State Police and Medford Fire Department Investigate

Medford, Massachusetts – The Massachusetts State Police bomb squad and the Medford Fire Department closed a portion of the west side of the Mystic Valley Parkway in order to investigate a possible explosive found at the Condon Shell, a park along the parkway. The investigation took place on Saturday afternoon. The item in question was a piece of “military ordinance,” and it was determined to be inert after a thorough investigation. Images shared by the …

Cold Case Chronicles: The Colonial Parkway Murders Uncovered

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Four young couples were killed in a series of connected murders known as the Colonial Parkway Murders. The murders occurred between 1986 and 1989 in Virginia at the Colonial Parkway, a scenic route that connects Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown. The victims were all couples in their late teens or early 20s who were found in different areas near the parkway. The cases remain unsolved, and the FBI has stated that the killer …

New DNA Evidence Implicates Man in 1980s Colonial Parkway Murders

RICHMOND, Va. – A new development in a decades-old cold case has shed light on three unsolved murders in the Hampton Roads region in the late 1980s. DNA evidence has provided a suspect in the case commonly referred to as the “Colonial Parkway murders.” Alan W. Wilmer Sr., a waterman with no prior felony record who passed away in 2017, has been linked to the shooting deaths of David L. Knobling, 20, and Robin M. …