Serial Killers

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Has anyone heard of a rumored I-40 killer in the 1980’s which targeted red-headed women ? I remember hearing about this when I lived in Nashville. I cannot remember the source where I heard this from.
 
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - (WZTV) - A 78-year-old man arrested in Kentucky in 2012 and believed to be responsible for three Tennessee murders is now confirmed to be the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history.

A new report from the FBI says Samuel Little has confessed to 93 murders and the FBI believes each of his confessions are credible. Little was arrested at a homeless shelter in Kentucky in 2012 on a narcotics charge from California.

Once extradited, DNA evidence connected him to three unsolved homicides in the state, leading to a conviction and life in prison. Little had been on the radar of law enforcement for years after avoiding a murder indictment in Mississippi and a conviction in Florida during the 1980s.

The arrest led to the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) to work up a profile on Little and his history. Between the analysis and confessions made by Little, it is now believed he is responsible for 93 murders, 50 of them already verified while others are pending confirmation.

'Most prolific serial killer in U.S. history' claims victims in Tennessee, Kentucky
 
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A class of Tennessee high school students — who created a suspect profile for a serial killer, dubbing him the "Bible Belt Strangler" — may help make a break in a series of cold cases from the 1980s.

In Alex Campbell's sociology class at Elizabethton High School in northern Tennessee, the students used information from the Doe Network of missing people and examined a series of real-world unsolved murders for their semester-long project.

Campbell asked his students to take a look at at least 11 unsolved killings in Tennessee and surrounding states that had become known as the Redhead Murders.
The students were able to find close similarities in six of the homicides — where the victims were all slim white women with red or reddish hair, killed between 1983 and 1985. The victims, who died by being suffocated or strangled, were found close to major roadways, according to Knox News in Knoxville. Police believe the victims were mostly hitchhikers and sex workers, which made it harder to identify them and less likely for families to report them missing.

Only of one the victims was ever identified: Lisa Nichols, 28, from West Virginia. She was found dead near Interstate 40 in West Memphis, Arkansas in September 1984. The other remains were found in parts of Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia. One of the unidentified victims (pictured here in an artists' reconstruction of what she may have looked like in life) was found in Campbell County, Tennessee near Interstate 75 in 1985. She had been bound and strangled.

Campbell’s students theorized that all six women were murdered by the same serial killer, likely a male commercial truck driver. The teens concluded that he may have stopped killing when he stopped working as a driver. Because the victims didn’t show evidence of sexual assault, they theorized that he may have killed them because he perceived them to be harmful to society, Knox News reported.

On Tuesday, the students held a press conference alongside representatives from several law enforcement agencies, including Kentucky State Police, according to The Elizabethton Star. At the presser, the students presented their eight-page profile on the potential suspect in a string of murders that has received little to no attention.
“He's eluded justice for almost 40 years, but the Bible Belt Strangler is wrong,” Campbell said during the press conference. "He made a mistake. Somebody saw something, somebody has heard something.”

At least, that is the hope of the class and of law enforcement. "Bible Belt Strangler, we know you're out there," Campbell said.
 
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