Late Virginia Fisherman Identified as Perpetrator in Three Unsolved 1980s Murders

New DNA evidence links Alan W. Wilmer Sr. to the Colonial Parkway murders and the killing of Teresa Lynn Spaw Howell.

Alan W. Wilmer Sr., a Virginia fisherman who died in 2017, has been identified as the perpetrator of three unsolved murders from the late 1980s.
New DNA evidence linked Wilmer to the 1987 killings of David L. Knobling, 20, and Robin M. Edwards, 14, in Isle of Wight County, and the 1989 murder of Teresa Lynn Spaw Howell, 29, in Hampton.
The Knobling and Edwards killings were part of a series of unsolved homicides known as the Colonial Parkway murders.
Wilmer's DNA was obtained after his death and matched to evidence recovered at the scenes of the three homicides.
Wilmer is also the subject of several active investigations into other slayings that took place around the same time, including the rest of the Colonial Parkway murders.