There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

Connections between cases are sometimes small and simple.

Other times, they are glaring and hard to miss. On September 16, 1984,

the first named victim of a series of murders was found in a case that remains unsolved to this day,

a woman who had one very obvious connection to all of the women who came before and after her. So if you like your coffee

hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

Today's story is one that has a few complications. The major one being that, even to this day, no one really

knows, A, just how many victims there were, and B, if the crimes were the work of one deranged

serial killer, or many. This, however, is what we do know. We know that on February 13,

1983, the body of an unidentified woman was found

alongside the highway in Wetzel County, West Virginia. From the snowy footprint surrounding her body,

investigators theorized that she was killed in a different location two days prior and disposed

of where she would eventually be found. She was unclothed, had Auburn hair, and remains unidentified to this day.

Now, while this murder was, at the time, written off as a devastating one-off,

on September 16, 1984, another body turned up in West Memphis, Arkansas that would, albeit much later,

become the first named victim of a killer, or killers, nicknamed the Redhead murderer.

That victim would eventually be identified as 28-year-old Lisa Nichols, and she, like the woman before her, was found discarded along the

highway. Wearing nothing but a sweater, Lisa, who came from West Virginia, was not identified

until June of 1985. She was strangled to death, likely after leaving a truck stop by a person who

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