Virginia State Police said divers searched waterways near the Colonial Parkway but didn't find any new evidence of the infamous 1980s murders in the area.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares of the Commonwealth of Virginia has announced that the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) team of the Office of Attorney General has successfully solved two cold cases in Hampton Roads. The cases involved the murders of David Knobling and Robin Edwards in Isle Of Wight in 1987, and the murder of Teresa Lynn Spaw Howell in Hampton in 1989. These cases remained unsolved for decades until DNA evidence linked Alan W. Wilmer Sr. to the crimes. It was confirmed that Edwards and Howell were sexually assaulted.The SAKI team played a crucial role.
When 63-year-old Alan W. Wilmer Sr. died in December 2017, Virginia authorities needed to identify him and took a DNA sample – six years later, that genetic material linked him to the killings of three people in the 1980s, officials said Tuesday.