Note: Sorry for the incorrect title in the opening credits!ĭon't forget to visit to suggest cases and to buy merch. Chicago police are taking a new look at the unsolved slayings of 55 women and the possibility a serial killer is involved. The killers in the show are real, and these are their stories. The main characters of the show, Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallyany), are based on real FBI agents Robert Ressler and John Douglas, who interviewed multiple murders when forming the BSU.
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Then, learn the horrifying story of the of the Cleveland torso murderer.On Netflix's brilliant series Mindhunter, they look at the origin of what today is known as the FBI's the Behavioral Analysis Unit, formerly known as the Behavior Science Unit. Next, read about these five unsolved serial killings that will haunt you. While there may be a true “Redhead Murderer,” the media sensation around these deaths might have merely revealed the number of unrelated killings of those women most cast aside by society. Many of these women are believed to have been unidentifiable because they were drifters or sex workers, often far removed from whatever family they may have had.Īs Watson said of the murders, “These people tend to have a lifestyle not sufficiently tied to others who would be willing to report their being missing.” If they are unrelated, then the murders are at the least a snapshot of the overlooked killings that occur across the world of women in vulnerable situations. While it is unsure that all or any of these killings were related, this spate of horrifying murders of young women shocked a nation still coming to grips with the existence of modern serial killers. Wikimedia Commons/CarlK90245 Digital recreation of the Desoto County Jane Doe. Like many of the other victims, she too was suffocated to death. One was a woman with long, red hair whose body was found in a white refrigerator left alongside Route 25 in Kentucky. The next month, two more redheaded victims were found. The killings continued, undeterred, and on March 31, the skeletonized body of another redheaded woman was found alongside Interstate 24 in Tennessee. Though his attempted murder fit the MO of the previous Redhead Murders, police dismissed him as a suspect for the other killings as he had airtight alibis for the dates that the killings occurred. Schacke miraculously survived her attack and was able to contact police who quickly arrested Johns. On March 6, a redheaded woman named Linda Schacke reported to police that 37-year-old trucker Jerry Leon Johns had attempted to strangle her to death with her own torn shirt before throwing, what he presumed to be her corpse, on the side of Interstate 40 in Knox County, Tenn. Later that year, in March, police received what they believed would be their first major break on the case. Wikimedia Commons/National center For Missing & Exploited Children Digital recreation of the first Campbell County Jane Doe.
One of the victims had short, red hair, while the conditions of the other body made it impossible to know her hair color.īoth victims were found clothed, and the nature of their deaths is unknown, though foul play was heavily suspected. In 1985, two more murders were attributed to this rash of killings when police discovered two Jane Does in Campbell County, Tenn.
Her body was found with only a sweater on, following the pattern of victims being found naked. Nichols had strawberry-blonde hair and was likely picked up while she was hitchhiking before her murder. However, this man was never identified.Ī year later in 1984, another woman, this one identified as 28-year-old Lisa Nichols, was found strangled to death along Interstate 40 near West Memphis, Ark. One person of interest emerged from the case after residents reported seeing a White man around 5’6″ tall near the site where the body was found. Her cause of death is not entirely known, but it is likely that she was suffocated to death. Police Image Composite image of the Wetzel County Jane Doe.
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