Daniel Lauer, 21, and his companion Annamaria Phelps left Amelia County on the late hours of Labor Day, September 4, 1989, headed for Virginia Beach in Lauer’s 1973 gold Chevrolet Nova. Their families reported them missing the next morning after they failed to arrive or make contact. On September 5 the Nova was found abandoned at a westbound rest area on Interstate 64 in New Kent County, though the pair had been traveling eastbound.

Six weeks later, on the morning of October 19, 1989, hunters found human remains about three miles east of where the car had been recovered. The remains were identified as Lauer and Phelps, and investigators determined both had been murdered.

Did anyone in the Virginia Beach or Amelia County area have contact with Daniel or Annamaria in early September 1989, or know why their car might have been left at that rest area?