Parkway family members remember 4-10-88

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) - Saturday marked a sad anniversary in Hampton Roads. 22 years ago on April 10 1988, a young couple on their first date disappeared without a trace from the Colonial Parkway. Keith Call and Cassandra Hailey have not been heard from since.

The family of Keith Call appeared on WAVY-TV's Saturday morning show, "I remember getting a call at 9:30 Sunday morning. My mom said, 'Keith's car was found on the parkway. He's not in it.'  She then hung up," says Joyce Call-Canada.

Joyce got in the car and started driving, and found the crime scene at the York River Overlook on the Parkway, and she knew then the horror that would await, "My heart sunk, and I knew there was something terribly wrong."

Keith's brother Doug remembers just trying to make sense of it.  There had to be an explanation.
He remember his mother who knew from the start an explanation would bring only bad news, "I just tried to figure out he was out with friends. I remember she was uncomfortable about it from the start."

Cassandra Hailey's parents celebrated their wedding anniversary the day before she disappeared, "Everything we do we remember.  Things will pop in your head, and you  remember and say Sandy did this and Sandy did that.  Those memories are always there," says Joanne Hailey who was interviewed yesterday on her 50th wedding anniversary.

Joyce says the frustration remains, "Frustration.  Just not knowing what happened. As my Mother would say, 'we don't even have a place to go to put flowers.'  "

Sunday the Call family will hold a fundraiser in York County raising money to remember the Colonial Parkway Murders.

Here's the information for the fundraiser:

The Colonial Parkway Muder Victims Benefit and Fundraiser is Sunday at POP's Drive In on Highway 17 in Grafton from 12 to 5pm.  That is in York County.
Cross Roads Band will be on hand with great music