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The Redhead murders is the media epithet used to refer to a series of unsolved homicides of redheaded females in the United States between October 1978 and 1992, believed to have been committed by an unidentified male serial killer. The murders believed to be related have occurred in states including Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.[1][2][3] The murders may have continued until 1992.[4][5][6] The victims, many remaining unidentified for years, were usually women with reddish hair, whose bodies were abandoned along major highways in the United States. Officials believe that the women were likely hitchhiking or may have engaged in prostitution.[3][7]
Authorities are unsure how many people were responsible for these murders, if they were all performed by the same perpetrator(s), and how many victims there have been.[8] It is believed that there may have been a total of five to fourteen victims.[3][9][10] Of the presumed victims, four were identified by November 2018.[11][8][12][13] The suspect was informally called the "Bible Belt Strangler" in 2018, because the territory where the bodies were found was part of the Bible Belt.
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^Bass, William; Jefferson, Jon (October 5, 2004). Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales. New York, New York: Berkley Trade. p. 149. ISBN 0425198324.
^ abc"Five states join probe of 'redhead murders'". Gadsden Times. April 25, 1985. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
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^Newton, Michael (September 2009). The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes (Second ed.). New York, New York: Infobase Publishing. p. 316. ISBN 978-0816078196.
^Strand, Ginger (February 14, 2014). Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate. University of Texas Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0292757523.
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^"Lawmen from 5-States Probe Redhead Murders". Schenectady Gazette. April 25, 1985. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
^"'Redhead' murders probed". The Galveston Daily News. April 25, 1985. p. 6. Retrieved January 19, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
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^Shelton, Caitlyn (November 14, 2018). "1985 Tennessee homicide victim identified as New Hampshire missing 17-year-old". WZTV. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
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