Heidi Childs and David Metzler 10 year murder anniversary

MONTGOMERY Co., Va. (WSET) -- Virginia State Police is marking the 10 year anniversary of the murder of two Virginia Tech students.

Police said it was shortly after 8 p.m. on August 26, 2009 when 18-year-old Heidi Childs and 19-year-old David Metzler parked in the isolated parking lot off Craig Creek Road.

They couple was brutally murdered sometime between 8:25 p.m. and 10 p.m. that night.

They were found shot dead in Caldwell Fields in Montgomery County. A joint task force was created to handle the case.

Investigators said Heidi's purse was stolen. Inside was cell phone camera, ID, Virginia Tech lanyard, and a credit card.

Both were sophomores at Virginia Tech, who met before college through their church youth group.

Metzler graduated from Brookville High School in Campbell County and Childs was home-schooled in Forest.

Neither of their families, nor the investigators, say they have given up hope that these murders will be solved.

Local, state, and federal law enforcement will provide an investigative overview and update on the active investigation on Friday, August 23 at 10 a.m. Both families will share

Police said it was shortly after 8 p.m. on August 26, 2009 when 18-year-old Heidi Childs and 19-year-old David Metzler parked in the isolated parking lot off Craig Creek Road and they were murdered that night

It has been five years since two Virginia Tech students were shot to death in the parking lot of a Virginia campground.

But local detectives are no closer to finding out who was behind the Aug. 26, 2009, slaying of Heidi Childs and David Metzler at Caldwell Fields in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests.

Capt. Robert New on Tuesday said the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office still has no new information regarding the double shooting, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.

Childs, 18, and Metzler, 19, had been together for at least four years and had just started their second year at Virginia Tech, where she was majoring in industrial and systems engineering while he studied biochemistry.

The night they were killed, the couple, both of Virginia, had planned on chatting and playing guitars while parked at the idyllic campground in Montgomery County.

Childs told friends they wouldn't be late because she had homework to do. They left her apartment about 8 pm.

Next morning, a man walking his dog found their bodies shot by a .30-30 rifle. He was inside his Toyota Camry. She was on the ground outside.

Since then, investigators have remained unable to point to a motive, saying the shootings were likely random, according to the Times-Dispatch.

On the third anniversary of the homicide in 2012, Sheriff Tommy Whitt revealed that his detectives had found DNA evidence at the scene and were trying to match it to people who frequent the area. He said his department was still actively working the case.