On April 9, 1988, 18-year-old Cassandra Lee Hailey left her family home in Grafton, Virginia, for a first date with 20-year-old Christopher Newport College student Richard Keith Call. The pair spent the day together and were last seen at a party at the University Square Apartments in Newport News in the early hours of April 10. Neither Cassandra nor Keith has been seen or heard from since.

Keith’s red 1982 Toyota Celica was found the next morning abandoned at the York River Overlook on the Colonial Parkway in Yorktown. The driver’s door was open; the keys lay on the driver’s seat and a watch and eyeglasses were on the dashboard. Most of the clothing the couple had been wearing was in the backseat, and Cassandra’s purse remained in the car though her wallet was missing. An early theory that they drowned was dismissed after searches found no trace and because of the cold water and Cassandra’s fear of swimming.

Their disappearance has been linked to the Colonial Parkway murders, three other young couples killed or found near the parkway between 1986 and 1989; those cases share the unsettling detail of cars abandoned with possessions largely untouched. Cassandra and Keith are the only pair from that series whose bodies have never been found, and the investigation remains cold. If anyone has information about Cassandra Hailey or Richard Keith Call’s last movements on April 9–10, 1988, please come forward.