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Rachael A. Raver, 22, and her boyfriend Warren H. Fulton III, 22, disappeared after an evening with friends at a Washington, D.C., bar on December 4, 1988. Their bodies were found two days later in a secluded, wooded area off Hunter Mill Road in Reston, Virginia. Both had been shot to death, and Rachael had been raped.

The case went cold for many years until DNA testing in 2005 linked evidence from the scene to Alfredo R. Prieto, who was already incarcerated in California for a 1990 rape and murder. Prieto was extradited to Virginia, and after a retrial following a 2007 mistrial, he was convicted in 2008 on two counts of capital murder. Initial death sentences were later overturned because of errors on jury verdict forms; he was resentenced to death in 2010. Prosecutors tied Prieto to multiple other killings and said he was a serial killer.

Does anyone have memories of the couple or of the Reston area in December 1988 that might shed light on their last known movements?