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Episode 203 · Murder: True Crime Stories

SOLVED: The Colonial Parkway Murders 2

20 Aug 2026 · 43 min

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In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the decades-long hunt for the killer behind the Colonial Parkway Murders. For years, the four cases went nowhere, plagued by jurisdictional turf wars, false leads, and a string of suspects who turned out to be dead ends, including two men who inserted themselves into the families' grief only to exploit it. Refusing to let the case die, the victims' families applied relentless public pressure on the FBI and Virginia State Police. Then the same genetic genealogy breakthrough that caught the Golden State Killer gave investigators…

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Murder: True Crime Stories

Crime House · True Crime · English

On Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy digs into history's most notorious murders like you've never heard them before, going beyond the crime scene to find the real story…and the lives it upended. Case closed or not, every case leaves you understanding exactly why it needed to be told. Join

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