Agent volunteers to revisit Col Parkway

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (WAVY) - An investigator has volunteered to revisit the decades-old Colonial Parkway Murders.

Several of the victims families met with FBI agents and local investigators Monday to figure out how they could help moving forward.

The man at the center of this new investigation is Steve Spingola, and now eight families hope a pair of fresh eyes can breathe new life into a case more than two decades old.

Former homicide detective Spingola, based out of Milwaukee, Wis., will comb through evidence and crime scenes in an attempt to shed new light on the Colonial Parkway Murder case.

This new investigation was organized by the families of Colonial Parkway Murder victims and is completely seperate from any other investigation, including the FBI's.

"We are going to meet with the families and some of the officers involved with the original investigation. We plan to look at several of the sites just to determine what type of location these people were taken from and where they were dropped off at," Spingola said. "I think it's very important to establish the nexus between the location where they were taken and finally where they were found."

Two of the eight people who disappeared have never been found and part of Spingola's investigation will focus on finding Christopher Newport University students Keith Call and Cassandra Hailey.

WAVY.com spoke with Jennifer Phelps, a family member of victim Anna Maria Phelps, whose body police found six weeks after her disappearance.

"We really want closure, especially for the Call's and the Hailey's to find their loved ones and lay them to rest," she said. "We're also hoping maybe something we find at that crime scene will help them crack the case."

Spingola's investigation will begin the first week in June, and although his work is on a volunteer basis, his expense will be paid by a fund organized by the victims families.

On Saturday, June 5, a mass search to find Cassandra Hailey and Keith Call will take place, and they will need as many eyes as possible to scour the areas that, until now, have not been searched.

If you can offer some help send an e-mail message to: findkeithandcassandra@gmail.com