WEBVTT - Start Spreading the News 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:02.960 A group of high school students. 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.120 High school students Elizabeth In high school students started a 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:10.440 project to research a string of unsolved murders. Their research 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:12.719 led to the identification. 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:12.840 Of the killer. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.880 Investigators now have an answer to a thirty four year 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:16.600 old question. 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.680 Once you start getting a few tips, or a few leads, 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:25.360 or few identifications, then the cold case isn't so cold anymore. 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.479 There's a pretty good chance he's still alive. Everything that 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.720 the students predicted through their profile turned out to be accurate. 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:38.720 Redhead killer profile mal Caucasian, five nine six, two hundred 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.120 and seventy pounds, unstable home, absent father, and a domineering mother, 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.920 right handed, IQ above one hundred, most likely heterosexual. 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:50.000 There is no profile of this killer except for the 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:51.280 ones the students created. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:53.800 Just because some of these women no longer have people 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:55.600 to speak for them does not mean that they desire 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:56.800 to not be so anymore. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:58.160 What if this guy's still alive? 0:00:58.240 --> 0:00:59.320 Like what if becomes. 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:00.840 After us kill me? 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:08.640 Yes, this is Murder one oh one, Season one, Episode 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:17.119 three starts spreading the news. I'm Jeff Sheen, a television 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.920 and podcast producer at Kati Studios with Stephanie Leidecker, Courtney Armstrong, 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.280 Andrew Arnold. As the semester drew to a close, high 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.040 school teacher Alex Campbell discusses what the class was feeling. 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:33.200 I think that some people feel that helping the police 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.320 or solving crimes is something that we pay the professionals 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.680 to do. But what I wanted to encourage the students 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.280 to understand was that everybody has an obligation in the 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.160 community and everybody can help in some way. Police have 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.400 a hard time solving crimes if there's no witnesses, just 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:52.080 because they weren't adults or they weren't police officers. I 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.000 want them to still understand that they could do great 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:58.240 work on their own. The semester was coming to a close. 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.680 It was May, temperature was warm up, we just had 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.920 a couple of weeks left in school. We led into 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.400 the press conference stirred on them in that one victim 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.960 identified Lisa Nichols, and it'd been over thirty years since 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.680 she had been identified. So at this point we have 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.720 two very good profiles. We have the offender profile, the 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.440 criminal profile, and then we also have the victim profile, 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.239 and as far as we know, nobody else has them. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.880 So our goal was just to really get this information 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.400 out to everyone, you know, and as big a way 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:29.000 as possible. 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.960 Student Will Bowers remembers what it was like at school. 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.160 In the school, I mean it was like it was unreal, 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:40.000 like everybody was shocking, surprised, like around. I mean, you 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.239 don't hear like high schools doing something like this. 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.360 I want other students to know that they can do 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.600 anything to set their mind too. Isn't the world isn't 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.320 just limited to like you're a teenager, so you have work. 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.160 If you work, yes, work in school. And that said, 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.320 you can't go as far as you want it. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:57.680 You can go. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.919 You can do anything in life. Don't let no one 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.960 stop you. There's hateful people, there's hateful teachers even but 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:06.280 keep going no matter what. 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.440 The plan for the press conference was for the students 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.840 to present their findings in a big way. A few 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.880 of the students from the class were selected to present 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.640 the information in the Uncovered and its significance. One of 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.520 them was Junior Wild Hours. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.280 Yeah, I was shocked that mister Campbell kicked me. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.880 I mean I'm okay speaking outside. I mean I usually 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.079 done like the pet browleies at high school, but like that, 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.240 this was the first time, like I really felt like 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:35.720 super nervous or something. 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.480 And I guess mister Campbell, since he's seen me do 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.280 the fat browleyes, so you seen me done these little things, 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.720 especially where I play sports and stuff like that, he 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.520 knew that I was capable of doing it, which I 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.240 never thought I would be. We basically made sure that 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:56.560 I spoke correctly, made sure all my notes were on point, 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.920 make sure I wasn't saying anything that that was false 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.600 or anything like that. It was a process to get 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.400 to where I was in front of the microphone that day. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.720 Young people have a lot of energy, and they also 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.640 have a lot of passion. If you could help kind 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.239 of focus that and find something that they're passionate about 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:20.880 and let them use the energy, they will do more 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:21.560 than you ever. 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:22.280 Expected they could. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.760 So what most people don't know is that this project 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:30.000 actually started with students getting curious about what learning could 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:34.960 look like and ended with students digging into something really 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.599 big and bold and compelling that had a life way 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.279 beyond the confines of one class. 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.400 Before we hear about the press conference, we think it's 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.600 important for you to understand the origins of the original assignment. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.920 The project actually stemmed from a grant that the students 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.360 had won from a company called XQ Institute. Founded in 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.640 twenty fifteen. XQ Institute is the nation's leading nonprofit organization 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:04.120 dedicated to improving school across the country. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:08.880 I'm Carrie Schneider. I'm the head of editorial at XQ Institute, 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.920 and we're a nonprofit that's dedicated to rethinking high school. 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.039 If you stop for a second and think back to 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.840 your high school experience and like what things stood out 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.160 to you as the moments that were even if it 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.440 was like one day or one lesson or one thing 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.159 in your high school, and you were like, oh, that 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.120 was actually fun to me. Taking that one thing that 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.280 you can remember about high school and making all of 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.800 high school feel like that it doesn't have to be 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:35.920 a boring, tedious march through like learn this, learn that, 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:37.840 take the test, move on, go to the next thing. 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.000 The way I met mister Campbell and all the teachers 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:46.640 and students there was when they entered xq's National Super 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:51.640 School Challenge, So way back in fifteen twenty sixteen, there 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:55.480 was an open call to the country to come together 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.039 and design the high school of the future. They didn't 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.600 win the full grant and the full support for building 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:05.400 a whole new school. They did win an XQ Student 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.920 Leadership Award, so they got a smaller grant and scholarships 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.839 for the kids that were involved, and then support to 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:18.320 turn their initial ideas into a wider program. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.640 When working with XQ Institute, mister Campbell did something unique. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:24.520 He turned to his students for guidance. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.880 So mister Campbell presented to his students, like, look, guys, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.919 if we're going to really dig into this project stuff, 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:38.400 what kinds of things are you interested in? And true 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.560 crime things in our own community that stood out as 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.559 something that the kids were interested in. He was like, cool, 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.600 true crime, let's go, let's find some unsolved mysteries. 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.719 Carrie remembers the first time she heard about the project. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.599 So, the first time I heard about this project was 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.560 actually at an education conference. Mister Campbell was hosting a 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:02.880 session on projects for teasatures and how to really connect 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.359 with your students in this way. And he was in 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.640 a room of probably forty or fifty teachers from across 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.400 the country, and I was just kind of sitting and 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.120 listening in and he just sort of dropped on the room. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.840 Oh and my students are actually solving a murder right now, 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:18.920 you know, we're working on and you could just see 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.440 people in the room go ah. You could physically observe 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.840 teachers going wait a minute what. There were definitely skeptics. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.640 So he really stood up and said, you know, just 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.360 think about how much their minds are changing, and what 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.680 they're learning about the world, and what this means for 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.120 thinking about people differently, and what we're learning about victims' 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.520 rights and what we're learning about justice, and what we're 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:44.040 learning about relationships and families and gender. The skeptics were 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.680 kind of like, you know, I can't think of another 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.000 example of the way kids can really get that much. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.200 So it's hard to argue with it when you see 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.080 just how much they learned and how much they take 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:54.680 away from it. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.520 When she heard about the press conference, Carrie knew it 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:00.000 was a big deal. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.119 I remember that mister Campbell sent me an email letting 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.120 me know that the press conference was happening and telling me, 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.880 you know, creating a little fomo like you're not gonna 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.760 be here, You're gonna have to wait until you find 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.160 out the big news like everyone else. And he was 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.000 so proud of his students and really excited to share 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.040 the milestones that they were announcing in the press conference. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:28.320 That press conference represented a big moment for realizing the 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.000 value of that project and the possibility of what kids 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.680 can do. It's real now, because I think it was 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.679 a big transition from a class project to something they 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.360 were ready to really put it out in the world. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.680 Let's stop here for a break. We'll be back in 0:08:49.720 --> 0:09:05.320 a moment. Murder one on one. On May fifteenth, twenty eighteen, 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.079 the big moment finally arrived. 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.680 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Is my privilege and honor 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.760 to welcome you to our prest conference. My name is 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.400 William Bowers, and I'm a part of mister Campbell's sociology class. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.240 Many of you or today are asking the same question 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.760 while we're here, Why are we doing this? Why do 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.680 we even care about this? Well, it starts thirty seven 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.360 years ago when a man murdered an unknown woman and 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:40.120 laid her body decided in the state. Four years later, 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.520 five more women said the same faith those women would 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.320 be founded along in the states and the highways across 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.640 multiple states at the time of their death. The women 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.280 were founded with reddish hair law enforcement at the time 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.840 couldn't solve the murders due to the women never being 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:04.120 identified and their transitive lifestyles. The cases became cold for 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.960 over thirty five years until a few people asked, why 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.440 hasn't the murderer and the women have been identified yet? 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.360 Standing in front of six images of the Bible Belt 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.160 stranglers victims, Junior Will Bauers spoke to roughly sixty people, 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.000 including members of law enforcement, the press, and locals in 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:22.720 the community. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.640 We spent months learning about the Redheaded murders. We learned 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.280 what a serial killer is. We looked into the lives 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.560 of some of the most infamous serial killers like Ted 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.319 Bundy and Richard Chase. 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.600 With the information providing and what we have learned, we 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.880 were able to create an mo a, signature and the 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:47.000 profile for the murderer. Without the hard work, grit, and 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.559 determination by the students, we would never have this press 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:55.240 conference to day. Martin Luther King Junior once said human 0:10:55.320 --> 0:11:01.360 progress it's neither automatic nor inedible. Every step towards the 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:07.600 goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering and struggle. The tires, 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:12.480 extortions and passionate concerns of dedicated individuals. The men and 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.840 women that you see here today are dedicated to these cases. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:21.000 The tireless work and effort by these individuals are the 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.080 reason why these cases have been brought back. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.199 Shane Waters also spoke. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.079 Out of the six victims that we believe could be 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.199 a part of the Redhead murders, all but one remain 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:37.040 unidentified people. That's right, after more than thirty years, only 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.320 one of these victims has a name. I felt defeated. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.440 I felt like I had no choice but to put 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:47.240 the case down and move on to something easier. I 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.720 can remember sitting at my computer about to drag this 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:55.199 file on my desktop titled Redheads to the Trash, when 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.440 I realized that this is the exact thing that is 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.000 preventing this killer from being caught. More than that, I 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.200 knew that this is what the killer assumed would happen 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.440 each time he targeted a new victim. I believe he 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:13.680 assumed that society wouldn't care that these women were gone. 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.240 After all, if there is no family to come forward 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.600 to fight for them, surely it will not be a 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.920 story worth telling. Today, I stand here along with the 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.360 high school sociology class, to remind the world of these 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.400 six women. Today, we are their family. If the coward 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.880 responsible for these murders is watching, I have a message 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:39.400 for you. We will not stop. We will not forget. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.640 Senior Mason Peterson made an impassioned plea to the public. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.160 So we need the public's help. We need you to 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.280 be aware of this case. We need you to share 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.600 this case around with any info that we are giving 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.760 you or what you already know. We need you to 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.520 find people that may know something we don't. Then the 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.640 people with this information should contact the police. There's no 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.920 doubt that someone saw something and thought it was probably 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.800 nothing or it's not that important. It could be something, 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.200 whether big or small. It could lead to a big break. 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.400 We want to help remember and identify the victims because 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.200 it helps the police find what correlations their victims have 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.559 with their perpetrator and bring him closer to justice. We 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.679 also want to help the police find the Bible belt 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.320 stranglers so he can be held accountable for his actions. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:24.560 Finally, mister Campbell spoke. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.160 During the course of this semester, the students have worked 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.560 with professional profiler and members of law enforcement community, and 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.480 these asperts explained to us that if you have the 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.080 same mo and the same offender, signature in the same 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.480 geographical area in the same period of time, then it's 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:45.400 almost assuredly the same person responsible. So as a class, 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.000 we began to look at each of the rough league 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.360 dozen cases that are oftentimes referred to as the Redhead 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.400 murders that took place from nineteen seventy eight until two 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.280 thousand and one. But there were six of these murders 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.560 that stood out because they were so similar, so our 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:02.320 students began to focus on these. These murders occurred between 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.640 nineteen eighty and eighty five, and the bodies were discovered 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:08.040 between nineteen eighty three and eighty five, so we knew 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.800 that we had six murders occurring in the same time period. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.480 So then we looked at geographic location and we found 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:18.680 the same six murders, three in Tennessee, Campbell, Cheatham, and 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.760 Green County, plus one in Wetzel County, West Virginia, with 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.680 one just across the border in Knox County, Kentucky, and 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.600 finally another one just across the border in West Memphis, Arkansas. 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.320 They were all linked because of not just geographic proximity, 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.760 but because they were connected by highways and interstates along 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.240 the Knoxville Nashville Corridor. After concluding that we had the 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:44.320 same location, same time period, same mo and same signature, 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.240 we enlisted the help of professionals in evaluating our work. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.800 We consulted and they agreed with us that these six 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:56.080 murders are most likely the work of one person. So 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.200 since these murders happened around Tennessee and what is oftentimes 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.320 referred to as the Bible bbble Belt, and most of 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.360 the victims were strangled or suffocated, we have decided to 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:09.160 name this serial killer the Bible Belt strangler. Today, we're 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:13.640 making these documents publicly available to the media and the public, 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:18.680 including the eight page psychological profile. Sadly, murder has been 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.680 around as long as humanity. People think they can commit 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.600 such acts and get away from the prying eyes of public. 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.680 And they'll never be seen. They'll think there'll be no witnesses. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.440 They think they're too good at their craft, they think 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:34.040 they're too smart. But often when some time is passed, 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.080 they feel like they're never going to be caught. But 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.280 the monster we now seek took the lives of six 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.680 women that we feel he intentionally targeted because they were 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.040 out on the rown alone with no family and no friends. 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.480 Their lives were most likely stolen from them in the 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.720 dark back parking, loss of truck stops and rest areas, 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.600 and then dumped along lonely highways at night where he 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.000 thought no one would see him. And he's eluded justice 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.720 for almost forty years. But the Bible Belt Stranglers wrong. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:07.400 He made a mistake. Somebody saw something, somebody's heard something. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.520 The blood of these six women that was spilled into 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.520 the overgrown hedges of our nation's highways and interstates has 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.960 gone unnoticed for way too long. And today we are 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.520 here to recognize these voices and give them justice for 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.560 which they're still crying out. We want the media to 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.240 hear their cry as well, so the people out there 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.080 with the information that law enforcement needs to identify these 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:34.040 victims and solve these crimes can come forward. So, Bible 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.720 Belt Strangler, we know you're out there. We know that 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.320 somebody has information to help find you and hold you accountable. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.640 And after today, everyone knows that we're looking for you. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:48.760 And today everyone knows that we are our sisters keepers, 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:53.840 because we're like family. And this time, no matter how 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.720 hard you squeeze your evil hands, you will never be 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.080 able to silence their crimes. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.680 Now years later, mister Campbell reflects on the press conference 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.840 and its impact on not just the students, but the 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:06.639 case as a whole. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.200 Right before will and it's a different ones. Stepped to 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.400 the microphone. I said, I just want you to know 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.120 if the Bible Belt strangler is still alive, he's probably 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:17.040 watching right now. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.520 Now go out there and do the press conference. And 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.399 they looked at me like, oh, that was terrible, why 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:22.879 did you do that? 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.200 But really, when I stepped to the microphone I spoke 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.560 to the Bible belt strangler, I was full of so 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.680 much emotion and I didn't think it would be that way. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.000 You know, again, I'm removed from these murders and these 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.600 cases and I didn't know them, but I almost started crying. 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:41.240 I could just feel the emotion, just feeling me, and 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.000 you know, to realize that there are people out there 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.639 and they deserve to be brought to justice, and that 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:49.879 I could literally be speaking of them, they could be 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.159 watching me on the live stream. It was kind of 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:57.640 surreal experience that really maybe more emotional than I thought 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:59.959 I would be. I was worried about the students. You know, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.720 they're young, they're used to speaking in public, but I 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.919 probably should have been worried about myself. I think the 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.520 closer they got into the case and looking at the case, 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:09.639 they realized that they might actually be able to change something. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.840 I think, especially young people today, feel like if they 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:15.560 do work, they want something to come out of it, 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.200 and I believe that this press conference made them feel 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.520 like that in the future something good could come from 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:21.000 their work. 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.679 That press conference really put the kids out there. Wasn't 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.840 adults speaking with kids in the background, but it was 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:32.320 really representative of the kind of belief that mister Campbell 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.240 has in his students and Elizabethton has in their high school, 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:39.280 and the belief that XQ has in the potential of 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.840 young people and the potential of educators to create these 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:46.080 environments for students. I think for mister Campbell and for 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.840 those kids, it was a moment of real vulnerability and 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.240 a moment to really put themselves out there in a 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.680 way to say they believed in what they had done, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.000 and they believed in the power of their research and 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.119 the power of their position and the power of their findings. 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.479 And for us, that was a big moment for us 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:09.320 at XQ to go, yes, this is what we mean. 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:11.639 This is what rethinking high school looks like. This is 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.760 exactly what young people can do. Now, let's make sure 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.359 it's not just one class in one high school in 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:21.920 one town in Tennessee, but it's happening for kids everywhere. 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:26.440 You can find more about XQ Institute at XQ America, 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:27.600 across all socials. 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:30.960 All these TV stations are running the story and it 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:32.959 got a lot of attention. Matter of fact, it got 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:35.679 so much attention it went national. We got in Oxygen 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.679 True Crime today. Like all these these people were covering it. 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.600 A group of Elizabethan High School students started a project 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.600 to research a string of unsolved murders from thirty years ago. 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:52.679 For three decades, the mystery had remained unsolved. Six redheaded 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.480 women strangled and left on the side of a highway. 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:58.320 Only one victim's name was even known. That's when a 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.800 group of elizabeth In High School students started their research. 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.800 A group of high school student detectives are investigating a 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:07.560 series of unsolved killings. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.280 Students from elizabeth And High School presented their research on 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:15.320 what is known as the Redhead Murders. Over the last semester, 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.879 the students have studied several cold cases spanning the South. 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:22.560 The cases all have several things connecting them, including the 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:26.480 victim's hair color. Students created a profile of the suspected 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:28.879 killer and named him the Bible Belt strangler. 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:33.160 Students in Elizabethton had a class where they investigated these murders. 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.479 I think this media attention really did a lot to 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:41.760 bring eyes back to the case and help, you know, 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:49.560 make the cases not so cold. So what happened was 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:52.120 the students had tried to bring. 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:54.840 The case back up. It had this media blitz, It'd 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:56.120 been featured all over the nation. 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:58.679 They have a name for the killer, they have a 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.200 way to separate the six out from the rest of 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:01.960 the victims. 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:04.120 People start calling the TBI, and they start. 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:07.399 Calling the local police agencies, and they start saying, well, 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:08.440 you know, what does this mean. 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.000 Are we looking at other cases? Are these related to 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:11.600 any others? 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:14.280 Could she have been killed, you know, by the same 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.840 person as somebody else? And I think it just it 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:20.520 just really got a media firestorm really going, and it 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.120 brought up a lot of attention back to these cases. 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.280 Once you start getting a few tips or a few leads, 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.000 or you know, a few identifications, then the cold case 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:30.680 isn't so cold. 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:31.240 Anymore. 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:34.359 There's a huge true crime whatever you call them, what 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:37.120 citizen sleuth kind of community out there. 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:41.679 They And so what happened was there was a lady 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:43.879 who spent a lot of time on these kind of 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:48.359 missing persons websites and Jane go kind of websites. So 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:52.080 she heard the podcast that the students were featured on, 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:56.840 and she thought, huh, here's six victims. Here's six bodies, 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:58.080