WEBVTT - The Final Exam 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:03.000 A group of high school students. 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:04.440 High school students. 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.240 Elizabeth In high school students started a project to research 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:11.040 a string of unsolved murders. Their research led to the 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:12.879 identification of the killer. 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.920 Investigators now have an answer to a thirty four year 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:16.680 old question. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.440 Once you start getting a few tips, or a few leads, 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:25.400 or few identifications, then the cold case isn't so cold anymore. 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:29.560 There's a pretty good chance he's still alive. Everything that 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.800 the students predicted through their profile turned out to be accurate. 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:38.760 Redhead Killer profile mal Caucasian, five nine six, two hundred 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.200 and seventy pounds, unstable home, absent father, and a domineering mother, 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.960 right handed, a Q above one hundred, most likely heterosexual. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.040 There is no profile of this killer except for the 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:51.320 ones the students created. 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:53.880 Just because some of these women no longer have people 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:55.360 to speak for them, it does not mean that they 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:56.880 deserve to not be so anymore. 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:58.200 What if this guy's still alive? 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.240 Like, what if becomes after user? 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:00.840 You're gonna kill me? 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:01.600 Yeah? 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.880 This is Murder one oh one, Season one, episode ten, 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:17.440 The Final Exam. I'm Jeff Sheen, a television and podcast 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:21.800 producer at KAT Studios with Stephanie Leidecker, Courtney Armstrong, and 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.160 Andrew Arnault. In twenty twenty, I came across a story 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.560 about a group of high school students who set out 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.880 to investigate a series of unsolved murders in their community. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.800 It was an incredible story that here at KAT Studios 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:36.720 we felt needed to be explored further. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.680 All right, to thank everybody for coming down, Thank you 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.160 for being patient with us. My name is Alex Campbell 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.399 and I'm a teacher elizabeth In High school. The reason 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.320 we called you all here today is to provide some 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.200 updates on the Bible Belt strangler case. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:56.120 On February sixth, twenty twenty three, mister Campbell, Riley and 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.480 Marley met more than thirty members of the press, law enforcement, 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.400 and local at Elizabethan County Chamber of Commerce to present 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.120 the latest findings. It was a moment the club had 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.440 been working toward for months. First, mister Campbell summarized the 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:09.480 work they had done thus far. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.040 I was a teacher in twenty eighteen when my sociology 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:17.120 class wanted to do as a project to see if 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.960 there was any relationship between. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.000 These murders that happened. 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:25.239 So in May of twenty eighteen, that class called a 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.600 press conference to announce about the work they had been doing, 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.320 and they believe that they had some information that did 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.200 show that maybe six of these murders could be related 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.679 back to one person, because for thirty years, nothing really 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.080 happened with most of those cases. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.320 It was just completely cold from. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:45.799 About nineteen eighty five killed twenty eighteen. So there has 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.120 been a lot of developments in the last few years, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.120 and there's a lot of things to catch you up on. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:54.399 And the students think they've found some more evidence they're 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:55.239 going to share with you today. 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:56.519 So I'm going to turn it over to them. 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.840 You're so girls to tell your next Riley and Marley spoke. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.120 On September sixth, twenty eighteen, the TBI released of the 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.919 Campbell County Jane Doe had been identified as Tina Marie 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.920 McKinney Farmer of Indianapolis, and after speaking with family, new 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.600 information reveals that she is at the epicenter. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:16.359 Of the Bible Bells strangler case. Not long after that, on. 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:19.639 October first, twenty eighteen, case he announced Innows County Jane 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:24.640 Doe as EBC Regina Black Pilgrim of North Carolina, but 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.639 after further research, we determined that she is not a 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:32.800 potential victim of the battle Bellas strangler case. And then lastly, 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.560 on November twenty fifth, twenty eighteen, the TBI and New 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.000 Hampshire authorities announced him the Green County Jane Doe is 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.960 Elizabeth Wilmott of New Hampshire and she is involved. 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.360 In the Bubble Bels strangler case. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.640 On December twentieth of twenty nineteen, the TBI announced that 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.360 Tina Farmer's killer was identified as Jerry Johns because his 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.240 DNA was matched with DNA. 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.560 That was left at the crime scene. So John's had 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.600 been in prison since nineteen eighty five. 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.000 For charges relating to trying to kill a Tennessee redheaded woman, 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.680 but he died in custody in twenty fifteen, so he 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.360 did not live to see the conviction of this murder. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.119 Also, baby girl Jane Doe was identified as Tracy Sue 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.440 Walker of Indiana. She was fifteen years old at the 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:15.080 time her. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.080 Death, so we think that she could be included in 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.760 the battle Belt strangling victims because of different evidence in 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.000 the crime scene and. 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:22.960 The m O and signature. 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.760 They pointed to the extensive updates since the original assignment. 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:29.800 This was our original list developed by the class of 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.960 twenty eighteen of potential victims of the Battle Belt strangling, 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:35.960 and you see there are a lot of Jane Doe's, 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:40.560 a lot of unidentified victims. And then next this is 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.040 our current list that we think could be tied back 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.040 to the Bible Belt strangler. You can see there are 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.680 a lot more identifications, a lot less Jane Doe's, which 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.159 is something very encouraging for us that law enforcement is 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.719 continuing to identify these victims, and I think that's in 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:54.919 part to some of the research. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.480 In the press conference that was held in twenty eighteen. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.680 They also spoke about the work they've done since then. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.160 People were able to work with an FBI behavior analyst, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.919 and that was really cool getting to work. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.200 With a professional and someone that had done this for 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.120 years and then kind of. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.480 Giving us the green light and telling us that our 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:16.480 work was pretty substantial. So he also said he was 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.320 one hundred percent convinced that the person who killed Tina 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.919 Farmer is guilty of others based on his admission to 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:23.560 being at the secondary crime scenes. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:25.000 The suspect would. 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.160 Also fit the profile by exhibiting these classical serial killer 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.760 behaviors such as knowing a lot about serial. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.279 Killers, even mentioning them by name. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:37.080 He studied criminal justice and serial killers in three different colleges. 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:39.960 He felt he was smarter than the police and then 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.800 might sing an incriminating statement like he didn't do it, 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.479 but would offer how he would have done it, etc. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.320 And then our FBI behavior analyst said, he would be 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.960 my number one suspect and the jury would convict him. 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:51.679 Every single time. 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.120 As well, we presented to a retired detective who had 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.520 decades of experience and it also work on many homicides. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.200 And then after seeing the evidence, he was asked if 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.040 he would give this to a district attorney to take 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.480 to a grand jury, and his answer was, oh, yes, 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:06.320 I would work with it. 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.159 And then lastly, we presented to. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.760 A district attorney who had decades of experience as well 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.200 in legal practices and as a former assistant district attorney. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:16.800 And then when he was shown the evidence, he was 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.440 asked if he had ever taken a case to a 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.080 grand jury with less evidence than what we had, and 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.360 he said, oh yeah. When asked if he would take 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.719 the case to a grand jury, he answered, this is solid. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.719 There is no question, Yes, definitely. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.479 David Davenport, retired to y'all special agent, a member of 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.000 the Redhead Murders TA Sport said, because of the similarities 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.240 in all the cases and how they were dumped along 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:38.240 the side of the interstate, it. 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.040 Was probably done by the same truck driver. 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.960 The former assistant distri attorney that we've presented to believes 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.120 that there's enough evidence that it is the same emment 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.760 signature of the Tini former killer, and a retired from 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.200 a Son detective believes there is enough information that it 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.000 once again is the same MN signature of the Tini 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:55.640 former killer. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.279 To the students, all signs pointed to John's being the killer. 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.560 So all the other victim profound a long travel roads 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.479 just like Tina Farmer. They all have the same characteristics 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:10.040 such as being white, petite, in transient. All were killed 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.760 from The person who killed Tina Farmer was not incarcerated, 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.040 so while he was in prison, all the murders stopped. 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.040 The same ligature was used on a surviving victim, the 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.000 Chief and County Jane Doe and Tracy Sue Walker, and 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.880 a ligature used on De Soto County Jane Doe was 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.520 just minutes away from Tina Farmer's killers family member's house, 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.600 which he visited several times per year if that was 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.200 in qube So here's just. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.000 Another look at mckinni. 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:37.680 Farmer's killer's MO and signature, so an extensive criminal record 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:39.480 that dated back at the age of sixteen. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.640 He spent the better path of his younger life between 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.520 nineteen sixty seven and nineteen seventy six incarcerated, with no 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.880 murders matching them happening while he was incarcerated, and then 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.120 in seven in nineteen seventy six he became a trucker, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.360 and then when the murders matching his MO and signature occurred, 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:58.760 he would be out of jail. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.920 Until his arrest in nineteen eighty five. So whenever he 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.679 was in jail, no murders. Whenever he was out of jail, 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.080 while he started a period while he was out of jail, 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.720 six murders and an attempted murder would take place with 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.040 the same m in the same signature. The first murder 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.840 matching this MO would take place in nineteen seventy eight, 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.120 the year he begins as a long haul trucker. In 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.559 nineteen eighty he would start his own trucking company under 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.600 the Motor Carrier Vehicle Act, which lifted a lot of 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:30.600 regulations on trucking, so truckers were able to be their 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.320 own bosses pretty much, so. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.000 There was not a lot of supervision. They were able 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.600 to kind of do their own thing. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.720 And then he would have to admit to law enforcement 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.079 that he had been everywhere a victim was found because 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:42.800 of his job. 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.199 As a trucker, and then the murders that fit. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.520 The samemo and signature would stop after. 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.520 He was arrested in March of nineteen eighty five. 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.520 The next year, the match book which was found near 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.959 Elizabeth Latt's body, and it was just a book of 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.360 matches from the Skinny Rooster, which was an exotic dancer 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.719 from in Houston, Texas. And know, if you know much 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.400 about Houston, but it's pretty big, like ten thousand square 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.240 miles big. However, the Skinny Rooster was located in an 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.600 out of the way location in a small industrial part 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.840 of the city, which was less than a two minute 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.000 drive from where the suspect was staying. And the matchbook 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.760 mysteriously was found a sixteen hour drive and we're one 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.600 thousand miles away beside a dead body that matched the 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.680 mo and signature of Tina Farmer's killer exactly. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.400 And what we hope this information will lead to and 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.760 what we can get from this is for tips that 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:32.560 can help identify further victims. 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.800 The press was able to ask the girls questions. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.240 Y'all didn't even do this for a grade, you know, 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.480 this is just for fun before we come in early, 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.800 usually once a week in the mornings before school and 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:44.000 talk about murder. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.800 What would I mean? Why why did you more bread 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.760 in this route? Back up a five. 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.440 Years, Like she said, we are very close in age 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.200 with many of these victims, and it just kind of 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.760 resonates brought back home for us because it could be 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.439 as where it could be like she's a sister, it 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.160 could be her so or our moms back in the day, 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.800 and so it's just really hard to think that some 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.839 of these people had to live with not knowing mm 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:09.920 that and some of them had children and they could 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.079 have just left their moms, left them rather than been murdered. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.680 So we just wanted to bring closure to all the 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.600 people affected by all these murders. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.240 When you look at the evidence and you looked the 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.760 ways women lived, you know, many of them were transient run. 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.400 Aways, different things like that, but. 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:24.720 That didn't make them any less human, and they didn't 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:25.920 make them any lesser people. 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.360 And the fact that someone to try to take advantage 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.480 of that and did take advantage of that and thought. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.040 That these people would not be missed knowing I'm just 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.440 getting to come look for them, I think that that's 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.040 very selfish and that's a very evil person, and I 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:42.800 think that that person needs to Obviously, suspect is gone 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.200 passed away, so you can't pay her what he did. 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:50.959 But these parents and these families and daughters, sisters, children, 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.200 they all deserve justice and they all deserve to know that. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.040 You know, my mom didn't run away when I was 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:56.920 little because she didn't want me. She was taken from me. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.719 And I think that that's something very important and that 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:01.960 there are still families and it is still facing people. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.080 And also this can bring attention to future instances. You know, 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:08.960 don't get the part with the men you don't know, 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:10.640 And then if I think like that. 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.200 Just can help make people more aware that you know, 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.040 there are people out there who are you, and that's 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.920 very important to be aware and to know that it's real. 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.480 A local police officer commenting on their work. 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:25.480 So I would say, I don't have any questions, but 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:26.640 I'm very appreciative. 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.000 I mean, you guys are very professional. 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.240 I know you're still in my school, but I was 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:31.760 very blown away. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.480 I guess it's rected. You all are very well put together. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.360 You know you're not You have your knowledge, you can 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:38.880 answer questions off the top of your head. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.840 You look very professional and that if you're ready to 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:43.920 give your PowerPoint presentation. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.679 If you all wanna be in law enforcement, we'll be 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.760 happy to have you. But I will say, as a 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.240 law enforcement officer, if you all came to me and. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.960 Said, hey, when we have this new information, I would 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:54.840 be excited. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:56.600 I would be very happy that you off put that. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.400 Work in to say hey, this is what I have 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.760 and you take the time to go look. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.200 So I definitely do would be very pursuasive of. 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.640 The extra health and the extra knowledge, and for. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.160 You all to do what you all do as well 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:10.160 to work together. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.600 I think the most important thing right now is getting 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.440 all of the people involved on the same page, because, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.920 like mister Campbell said, we've been in contact with some 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.160 different agencies and stuff out of state. Because I have no 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.679 clue that this happened, and there's been new management, new 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.840 people take over, so that don't even know about these cases, 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.360 don't know what the files are, the didn't even know 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:30.800 there was a. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:31.440 File, you know. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.040 And I think that it's very important that we get 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.200 everybody on the same page and kind of present this 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:40.360 information to everybody and just make sure that what's known 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:48.480 is known. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:50.720 Let's stop here for a break. We'll be back in 0:12:50.760 --> 0:13:05.880 a moment. Murder one on one. After the press conference, 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.680 mister Campbell sat down with Riley and Marley to reflect 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:09.240 on their work. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.559 Had a couple of days to reflect. Yeah, and I 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.199 guess the first question might be, how do you think 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:16.560 he did? 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.920 Like during the actual press conference, I did not feel 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.600 super confident myself. I was nervous about how like sounded, 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.479 the kind of verbage I was using. But then afterward 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.280 here and like the response and how they thought we 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.480 sounded very professional. I felt a lot more confident in 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.679 myself and then felt pretty I felt pretty good about it. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.280 I agree with Riley. While doing it, I was a 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.720 little bit nervous and didn't feel too good about it, 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.720 But after hearing like the praise from everybody else, I 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.320 felt a lot better. About everything. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.360 The girls discussed their motivations because I think. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.120 It's important to identify these killers and find justice for 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.960 these women, regardless if we're necessarily right or not. 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.679 Yeah, it's not just about like convicting generally on John's 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.600 ball that it's just finding doses for the girls. 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.080 Mister Campbell shared some frustrating news. 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.560 I don't know if you saw it or not, but 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.760 there was an article in one of the local newspapers, Yes, 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.559 and they followed up with a representative from the TVI, 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:20.480 and the quote was that there's no evidence connecting these 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:21.520 crimes things. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.320 How do they know though, because they haven't. It's not 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:24.720 like they went out of their way to see if 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.800 there's any DNA evidence anything like that. I don't understand 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:29.200 that I can sit there and say there's no evidence 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.440 when they haven't even give it really much attention. 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.560 They're so similar that it's insane, Like, I don't see 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.680 how there couldn't at least be something like there has 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.080 to be some evidence. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.720 Because anytime we've tried to talk to them or make 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.680 contact with them to see if we could help a 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.560 new way or give them information if there's any new information, 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:47.800 they've kind of shot US down. 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.360 It wasn't long before the Price picked up the story. 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.640 New research from Tennessee high school students shows a single 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.920 person could be responsible for a string of killings. 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.280 New research from a pair of elizabeth In Heist school 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.600 students suggests a single person was responsible. The students now 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.880 believe is actually responsible for six murders and one attempted murder. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.840 In September, two students started looking into the case again, 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.360 and those students presented their findings to the public. 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:19.440 Today, two elizabeth And high school students are now sharing 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.520 the result of their research into a string of cold 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:23.520 case murders. 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.840 Two elizabeth did In High school students believe a serial 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.920 killer was on the loose in the South in the 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:29.600 mid eighties. 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:34.720 This week, two students, Marley Mathada and Riley Whitson joined 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.120 with Campbell to present the culmination of five years of 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.440 investigation into the Redhead murders. 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.720 Marley Mathena and Riley Whitson explained to reporters and investigators 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.560 what they found. The women were strangled with a patternes. 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.880 They also identified more likely victims and ruled out others. 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:56.120 Elizabeth In High school students, Riley Whitson, Marley Methana and 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.320 teacher Alex Campbell say their research centers around the murder 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.040 of Tina McKenny Farmer. They were able to find similarities 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.680 in her killing with others around the same time period. 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.160 They hoped to bring some closure to families. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.480 Back in twenty eighteen, the first group of Elizabethtan High 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.000 School students, under the guidance of their teacher, developed a 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:20.120 profile of a serial killer who could be responsible. In September, 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:24.960 more students joined in. The students presented their findings to FBI, 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.680 behavioral analysis and other criminal justice experts, who all agreed 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.200 the suspect fit the profile of the other killings. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.840 Woodson and Mathena are both juniors at elizabeth In High School. 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.440 They hope to continue working on this investigation in their 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:40.080 senior year. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.200 It wasn't just the press that felt moved by their work. 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.880 Man that was truly blown away. I mean, I knew, 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.520 you know, we would talk about it a little bit, 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:52.240 but not in depth that all the stuff they presented. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.280 Riley's dad, mister Whitson, who was sitting in the press conference, 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.600 shared his thoughts on the assignment with mister Campbell. 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.800 I was so proud of him. I thinking through information, 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.560 getting on the internet, digging through stuff, digging through you know, 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.280 forty year old documents, finding details, finding information. I think 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.480 that's a skill that has helped her Mark. That will 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.440 help her Mary in life going forward, in college especially, 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.760 you know, to pour over have tons of information and 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.560 what's important in this information. I think that's a that's 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.600 something really big that'll help them going forward. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.040 Mister Whitson had a good question for mister Campbell. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:26.160 You're not getting paid extra, you know, stipping to do this, correct? 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:27.080 And that's correct. 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.280 Yeah, And I was telling the guy that, He's like, 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.680 are you kidding me? I said, yeah, I said, I said, 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:34.919 the girls go early before school. I said, mister Campbell 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.000 comes early. It's they're not They're not doing this for 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.880 a letter grade or a number or a dollar amount. 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:41.600 They're just doing it because they want to do it. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.840 They're passionate. But most people are blown away by that 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.159 because most teenagers, and let's be honest, most people that 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.359 work don't do stuff unless they get compensated. That's just life. 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.280 You know, people don't do that in the time. You 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.080 all have poured into this, and you especially, you know, 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.200 you have life, you have a wife, you've got kids, 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.399 you've got a family. You got to like myself, I 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.000 don't know if I can find the time that you've 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.479 put into this extra as much as we have going on, 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.960 and then on top of that to not get compensated. 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.360 That's a I'm going to patch you on the back, 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.159 really really largely for that. Well. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:11.960 I appreciate that. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.880 Carrie Schneider from the EXQ Institute, the company that originally 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.560 helped back the project, in twenty eighteen discussed the everlasting 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:24.520 mark a project like this leaves. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.040 I think one of the most fascinating and compelling pieces 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:33.159 of this entire project is that it just kept going. 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.400 We're years now into this. 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.880 The original kids that were a part of this project 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.400 are long gone, they're adults. It's not just a project, right, 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:47.320 It's when you really actually have interest and curiosity in something, 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.080 You're going to do it once the bell rings, You're 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.240