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When you were in school, you probably had class projects.

You made terrariums and did that thing with a paper mache volcano with a Mentos and Coca-Cola.

If you were lucky, you got to dissect a pine cone or two, or maybe even a worm if you lived

in the right district.

A class project of a different sort led by fearless innovator and now-friend of ours,

Alex Campbell, changed this investigation yet again when he and his class of high schoolers,

yes, high schoolers, worked with an FBI profiler to establish that we did in fact have a serial

killer on our hands.

They also provided a name for our killer, the Bible Belt Strangler.

You have to admit, it's fantastic branding and what else would you expect from Generation Z.

That said, the runners up for our killer's moniker were a little less compelling.

Some of them sounded like the names of professional wrestlers from the 1980s, the Sudden Slayer

and the Highway Hunter.

The most memorable was the Tennessee Air Depriva.

They are high school kids after all.

But this is no laughing matter, no small one either.

Solving cases like this is about engaging with the public, and some part of that is about

capturing the public's imagination.

The case doesn't change, but it's a repeatability and distinctiveness does.

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