Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 11, 1991 TAG: 9104110641
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-8 EDITION: EVENING
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: YORKTOWN LENGTH: Medium
Richard Call, 20, and Cassandra Hailey, 18, were last seen April 9, 1988. Call's car was found abandoned the next day at the York River Overlook on the Colonial Parkway. That's where the families plan to hold the service.
The FBI has said it believes the couple fell victim to a serial murderer who has killed six others in or near Hampton Roads in the past five years.
Call's mother, Barbara, said she refuses to come to terms with the loss and hopes her son is still alive somewhere.
"I can't even talk sometimes, because of the rage and the anger," Call said. "How someone could possibly do this to a boy who I don't think ever went to the principal's office; I mean, a child every parent would want. To just go out and never come back - I'll live with that the rest of my life."
Every April 10, Dick and Barbara Call take roses to the York River Overlook.
Joanne and Garrel Hailey, Cassandra's parents, made their annual visit Tuesday. Friends of the devout Roman Catholic family brought rosaries and religious medallions.
"We hope maybe the person that did this will see the display of love that we have, and maybe they will find a little compassion and let us know where they are," Joanne Hailey said.
Investigators from the FBI and Virginia State Police are working together on the case and three other double murders that appear to be related.
On Oct. 12, 1986, the bodies of Rebecca Dowski, 21, and Cathleen Thomas, 27, were found in a car at kilometer marker 9 on the Colonial Parkway. Both Dowski, a student at the College of William and Mary, and Thomas, a Norfolk stockbroker, had slashed throats.
On Sept. 20, 1987, an Isle of Wight County sheriff's deputy found a pickup truck abandoned at the Ragged Island Wildlife Refuge at the foot of the James River Bridge. Three days later, the bodies of Peninsula residents David Knobling, 20, and Robin Edwards, 14, were found a mile down the river bank. Both had been shot once in the back of the head.
On Sept. 5, 1989, police found a car abandoned at the Interstate 64 rest stop in New Kent County, about 22 miles east of Richmond. Six weeks later, hunters in nearby woods found the skeletal remains of Daniel Lauer, 21, and Annamaria Phelps, 18, both of Amelia County. They had died of knife wounds.
All of those cases will be remembered at Saturday's prayer service.
by CNB