199. Backwoods Horror: The Appalachian Serial Killer Caught by Teenagers

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In the 1980s, women with red hair kept turning up dead along Appalachian highways. Police held a six-hour summit, decided there was no serial killer, and shelved the cases for decades. Then a high school sociology class in East Tennessee picked them back up and did what no investigator could.

TW: Mention of SA

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