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October 12, 1986 – September 5, 1989 (Confirmed) Country. United States. State (s) Virginia. The Colonial Parkway murders were the serial murders of at least eight people in the U.S. state of Virginia between 1986 and 1989. [1] The killings were associated with the Colonial Parkway, a 22-mile long thoroughfare that cuts through the Colonial ...
The Johnstown Flood, sometimes referred to locally as Great Flood of 1889, occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. The dam ruptured after several days of ...
In real life the cases are still unsolved though, as described in the true crime documentary Lovers’ Lane Murders from 2021. As Cornwell's novel made many believe that the Colonial Parkway murders had been solved, [ 2 ] father-daughter true crime authors Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester issued their book A special kind of evil in 2017 ...
The DNA of a smalltime fisherman has linked him to three cold-case murders that occurred in Virginia in the 1980s. The suspect, Alan Wilmer Sr., died in December 2017 at the age of 63.
Marlene Lenthang. January 9, 2024 at 11:46 AM. A dead fisherman has been identified as the suspect in three cold-case homicides in Virginia from the 1980s, including two of the notorious "Colonial ...
9. The Colonial Parkway Killer. Location: Virginia. Victims: 8. Timeframe: 1986-1989. This killer targeted couples and would often attack them in their cars along the Colonial Parkway. The victims ...
The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is a unit of the United States National Park Service. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Established in 1964 [ 4 ] through legislation signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] it pays tribute to the thousands of victims of the Johnstown Flood , who were injured or killed on May 31, 1889 when the South Fork Dam ruptured.
Erika Elaine Sifrit (née Grace; born February 3, 1978) and Benjamin Adam "BJ" Sifrit (born October 21, 1977) are an American couple convicted of murdering two tourists, Joshua Edward Ford and Martha Margene "Geney" Crutchley, in Ocean City, Maryland, in 2002. The case drew substantial media attention. In 2003, both Sifrits were convicted, he ...