The murders believed to be related have occurred in states including Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

[4][5][6] The victims, many remaining unidentified for years, were usually women with reddish hair, whose bodies were abandoned along major highways in the United States.

On September 16, 1984, the body of a woman later identified as 28-year-old Lisa Nichols, who also used the last name of Jarvis, was found along Interstate 40 near West Memphis, Arkansas.

[8] On January 1, 1985, the bound body of a woman was found near Jellico, Tennessee, in Campbell County, down an embankment off the southbound side of Interstate 75.

The young woman had freckles over her body and various scars (including a burn mark on one arm); she was 10 to 12 weeks pregnant when she died.

[15][17][18] On September 6, 2018, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office announced that the victim had been identified by fingerprint as Tina Marie McKenney Farmer of Indiana.

[20] In 2019, DNA evidence identified convicted kidnapper Jerry Leon Johns as the man who killed Tina Farmer in December 1984.

He was previously convicted in 1987 of aggravated kidnapping, assault, and other crimes in the attack on a woman, Linda Schacke, who he had picked up in Knox County, Tennessee, two months after Farmer's disappearance and death.

Like Farmer, Schacke had been choked with a piece of cloth ripped from her T-shirt, bound, and left for dead inside a storm drain under Interstate 40, near Watt Road.

[21] On December 18, 2019, a grand jury in Campbell County, Tennessee, ruled that Johns would have been indicted for murder in Farmer's death if he were still alive.

[22] On April 3, 1985, the skeletonized partial remains of a young girl were discovered about 200 yards off Big Wheel Gap Road, four miles southwest of Jellico, Tennessee in Campbell County near a strip mine.

A necklace and bracelet made of plastic buttons were found nearby, as well as a pair of size 5 boots and a few scraps of clothing.

The tests showed she was likely born in Florida or central Texas and had later lived in the Midwest, Rocky Mountain states, the Southwest, or the Pacific Coast.

[31] On April 1, 1985, the body of a woman was found in a large white Admiral refrigerator in Gray, Knox County, Kentucky, alongside Route 25.

[33] Distinguishing features of the body included a number of moles (on the right side of her neck, near one ankle, and below each breast), a yellow-stained upper incisor, and a scar and other marks on her abdomen, indicating that she had borne a child.

Her eyes were light brown and her hair was red and nearly a foot long, which fit the pattern of the Redhead murders.

[5][34] On October 1, 2018, the Knox County Sheriff's Office announced this woman had been positively identified as Espy Regina Pilgrim, of western North Carolina.

[35] Priscilla Ann Blevins was a 27-year-old woman whose skeletal remains were found along Interstate 40 in Waynesville, North Carolina on March 29, 1985.

[39][40] On February 13, 1983, the naked body of a white female was found alongside Route 250 near Littleton, in Wetzel County, West Virginia.

Witnesses described seeing a middle-aged white male about five feet ten inches (178 cm) and weighing 185 to 200 pounds (84 to 91 kg) near the area where the body was found.

[42] 22-year-old Lorie Pennell, previously known as Desoto County Jane Doe, was a woman found murdered on January 24, 1985, in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

Lorie was found by a truck driver driving southbound on US Highway 78 a hundred feet east of Coldwater River Bridge at around 7:30 a.m.

[45][46] She was determined to have been killed, between three and six weeks prior, by severe blunt-force trauma and possibly a stab wound; her body was in an advanced state of decomposition.

Because she had light brown to darkish blond hair with red highlights, her case was thought to be possibly related to the Redhead murders.

[55] Lamotte's family was initially asked for a DNA profile to compare it to the adult female victim of the Bear Brook murders.

Chahorski had informed her mother, via telephone, that she was planning to hitch rides from her current location to her home state of Michigan.

[62][63][64] On September 6, 2022, Chahorski's killer was identified as trucker and stunt driver Henry Frederick "Hoss" Wise, who would have been 34 at the time of her murder.

He worked for the Western Carolina trucking company, and commonly drove through Chattanooga and Nashville, Tennessee and Birmingham, Alabama.

Around 1985, soon after the Greene County victim was discovered, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi requested the Federal Bureau of Investigation for assistance with their cases, as inconsistencies existed.

[45] A possible suspect emerged around 1985 when a 37-year-old trucker, Jerry Leon Johns, attacked and attempted to strangle a woman with reddish hair.