Wilmer Linked to Two More Cold Cases
Authorities had already tied Wilmer to two other violent homicides after breakthroughs in January 2024:
The Murder of Teresa Lynn Howell (1989)
Howell, age 29, was last seen outside the Zodiac Club in Hampton around 2:30 a.m. on July 1, 1989. Hours later, clothing and her remains were discovered along a treeline. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.
Full story: Two cold cases solved more than 30 years later.
The Colonial Parkway Connection: Knobling & Edwards (1987)
Wilmer is also linked to the double homicide of David Knobling, 20, and Robin Edwards, 14 — one of the infamous Colonial Parkway Murders, a series of four double murders that terrified Virginia in the 1980s.
Their bodies were discovered in the Ragged Island Wildlife Refuge. Families long feared a single predator was behind the killings, though police say they have not found definitive evidence tying the double murders to one serial killer.
More on the cases:
Dead suspect linked to another cold case murder after decades-long investigation
