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Unidentified

Redhead murders

Year
1992
Where
West Virginia
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
1
What the record says

The Redhead murders is the media epithet used to refer to a series of unsolved homicides of redheaded girls and young women 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. The murders may have…

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