The 20-year-old Indianapolis woman had been reported missing by family shortly after Thanksgiving Day 1984. The body of one victim, found wrapped in a blanket off Interstate 75 in Campbell County near Jellico on New Year's Day 1985, was identified as that of Tina Marie McKenney Farmer. In September this year, investigators finally found their starting point - Indiana. Because you had no starting point."Īfter the ad-hoc task force meeting in Nashville, the investigations languished for more than 30 years in the absence of any new leads.
"They would be among the most difficult homicide cases you could investigate. "But without any identification (of the victims), you couldn't put them anywhere. "The speculation came that there could be a truck stop connection to it, or a truck driver," said Steve Watson, then-deputy director of the TBI. Officials quietly considered whether the homicides could be the work of a serial killer. None had been identified.Īnd each had telltale reddish or strawberry-blonde hair - a detail news reports emphasized amid increasing coverage of what became known as the Redhead Murders. That April, lawmen from five states, along with the FBI, met at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's headquarters in Nashville to compare notes on eight unsolved homicides - including three in Tennessee - with suspicious similarities.Īll of the victims were young women whose bodies were found dumped along major roadways over the previous two years.
Watch Video: An in-depth look at the redhead murdersīy the spring of 1985, authorities were beginning to believe the murders might be connected.
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