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FBI Not Giving Up on 20 Year Old Murder Investigations
Posted on Dec 21, 2009
"The FBI does not quit!"
That is the essence of the message that went out from Norfolk's (Virginia) Special Agent in Charge this week. The SAC announced that the Bureau was doubling its reward for information in the murder cases that have gone unsolved since the late 1980s.
The Norfolk division is sending fingerprints and trace evidence from the murders for advanced scientific testing at its laboratory in Quantico, Bureau officials said at a news conference December 18th.
Alex J. Turner, special agent in charge of the Norfolk FBI office, said he could not promise when that blood and fiber evidence would be tested for DNA but said, "the FBI laboratory has committed to expediting the examinations."
SAC Turner said that on Thursday night he briefed the families who lost relatives on the Colonial Parkway in the late 1980s. Turner said he told the families:
- An analysis found fingerprints and trace evidence that could be useful to the case.
- Reports and statements have been digitized and agents will use "intelligence analysts" to help review the files.
- Despite the absence of concrete evidence linking the cases, agents still believe all eight murders are the work of a serial killer or killers
"That's the working theory," Turner said.
Bill Thomas, brother of Cathleen Thomas, said the conference call with Turner was wide-ranging and, in many ways, reassuring to families who had felt ignored by the agency for decades.
"After 20 years of neglect by the FBI, the Thomas family is pleased to see the investigation moving forward," Thomas said from Los Angeles. "We were pleased with the phone call. We feel like Special Agent Turner and his team are making this case a priority."
The FBI is asking anyone with information on these killings to call the Norfolk office at (757) 455-0100 or to email Colonial_Parkway_Murders@ic.fbi.gov
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