Day/date: Tuesday, October 14, 1986

THE WASHINGTON POST

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, l986

2 Women Found Slain Off Colonial Parkway Near Yorktown, Va.

A College of William and Mary student and a Naval Academy graduate who
was a saleswoman in Virginia Beach were found with their throats cut in
a car off the Colonial Parkway near Yorktown, Va., the FBI said
yesterday.

The bodies of R.A.D., 21, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and C.M.T., 27, a
Lowell, Mass., native, were found Sunday evening in C.M.T.'s car down an
embankment, said Jack Wagner, special agent in charge of the Norfolk
office of the FBI.

Wagner said both women were clothed and there was no sign of robbery. He
declined, pending an autopsy report, to comment on whether they had been
sexually assaulted.

R.A.D. and C.M.T., who were friends, had last been seen Thursday evening
at William and Mary, about 10 miles from where their car was found.
"They had not been reported missing," Wagner said. He said he did not
know how long they had been dead or where they had been slain.

C.M.T. was discharged from the Navy this year after serving as a
protocol officer at the Atlantic Fleet headquarters in Norfolk, Wagner
said. She worked for a brokerage firm in Virginia Beach and was studying
for a master's degree in business administration, Wagner said.

R.A.D. was a senior majoring in business at William and Mary, said
E.J., a school spokeswoman.


Log number: 86-27
Date/time of incident: 10/11 9:45 am    Date/time received: 10/14 11:45 am
Park: Canyon de Chelly                  Location: North Rim
Reported by: Ken Mabery (SWRO)          Phone(s): FTS 476-6371 
Received by: Bob Zarger (LES/WASO)      Phone(s): 343-4209 
Follow up: Reed Detring (Chief Ranger)  Phone(s): 602/674-5436 
Summary: 

At 9:45 am on Saturday, October 11, Mr. D.B., a driver for the
Thunderbird Lodge at Canyon de Chelly found the remains of the below
named subject. Subject was found at the base of a 100 ft. cliff, located
at the North Rim of the Canyon.

At the time the body was discovered, subject was holding a beer can in
one hand. The only visible signs of trauma were lacerations of the chin
and both knees. It's believed the subject fell from the cliff during the
night of Friday, October 10.

The primary investigator for this incident is Ivan Tsosie of the Navajo
Tribal Police.

Persons involved:
Name                          Address                  DOB or age
B.M. Jr. 	             BIA Compound                    16 yrs.
                         Many Farms Boarding School
                         Many Farms, Arizona