Two young women camping in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park were murdered in 1996. Now, the FBI knows who killed them.
DNA has linked serial rapist Walter Leo Jackson Sr. to the murders of 26-year-old Laura “Lollie” Winans and 24-year-old Julianne “Julie” Williams, who went missing while camping in May 1996, the FBI announced. The two left on May 19 and were supposed to return on May 28, People Magazine reported.
Family members called the National Park Service when the two didn’t return home on the expected date.
Their bodies were found bound and gagged, with their throats slit, on June 1, but it was determined they had been murdered at their campsite near the Skyland Resort on May 24. The case went cold, and no one knew who killed the women for more than two decades.
In 2021, investigators at FBI Richmond were assigned to investigate the case. They reassessed hundreds of…
