Tennessee students uncover 'Bible Belt Strangler' as serial killer culprit in 'Redhead Murders'
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Elizabethton High School students played a major role in solving a decades-old cold case of a serial killer tied to at least six victims in the "Redhead Murders."
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The peculiar details were more than a coincidence, and fears of a hunting killer sparked the creation of a multi-state law enforcement task force in 1985, but the investigation didn't bear any fruit.
The case seemed hopeless, and the killer (or killers) would become a faceless boogeyman until 2018, when 20 students from Elizabethton High School connected at least six of the victims to a man they called the "Bible Belt Strangler" for a class project.
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