Throughout the 1980s, women, many of them very young women kept turning up dead along some of the same interstates around the southeastern United States.

Soon, some similarities in the murders emerged.

Besides most of the women being young, many of them had red or red-ish hair, and in a lot of cases they had been strangled in addition to being sexually assaulted.

Also, most of the victims were Jane Does, women whom it seemed no one had reported missing.

And at the time, it appeared that no one was looking for them, or at least no one locally was looking for them.

It was likely they had ended up far from home.

As more and more of these victims were found, investigators started to wonder if the murders were the work of a serial killer.

Various law enforcement agencies from numerous states met up to compare notes and discuss possible suspects, and soon the series of killings was called the red-head murders by the press.

The possibility of a serial killer on the loose of course struck fear into the hearts of many who was cruising along these highways looking for victims, brutally murdering red-headed young women, dumping their bodies by the roadside and driving back out of the area.

The more that investigators compared notes, the more they began to think that the evidence of one serial killer just didn't add up.

It was now speculated that multiple killers were likely involved possibly multiple serial killers, and that is still the speculation.

Investigators still can't even say today with complete certainty how many victims there are, which cases are related, or even the identity of several of the victims.

Making things harder, all the known suspects are now dead.

In this week's episode, I'll provide the important known details of the red-head murders.

The challenges investigators have faced over the years in solving these crimes, how some of the killings came to be attributed to the Bible Belt Strangler, and how a dedicated group of Tennessee students in recent years breathed new life into the investigation of who killed these women,

and who were these women.

Time for another true crime, ongoing mystery, it's only going to get harder and harder to get away with murder, thanks to continual forensic investigation tech advances, is my dad behind some or all of these murders, addition of Time Suck.

This is Michael McDonald, and you're listening to Time Suck.

You're listening to Time Suck.

Happy Monday, meet Sacks, welcome to the Cult of the Curious, I'm Dan Cummins, Suck Nasty, Rambo Finn, nothing is over! You just don't turn it off!

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