Agency Name: Cheatham County Sheriff's Department A missing person is someone whose . Tina Farmer was identified on Sept. 6, 2018. She had two scars, one typical of a Caesarean section, and another on one index finger. Her age was estimated to be between 17 and 25, but possibly as old as 30. [22], On April 3, 1985, the skeletonised 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. As for why ginger women were targeted? At the April 1985 meeting, they included as many as 11 victims in the probe. Bingham, 31, and McConnell, 26, were found dead on Sept. 7, 2018, at a Shasta Lake homeless camp. [5], The refrigerator had a decal of the words "Super Woman" on the front. She was 17 at the time of her death. Wise was also a stunt driver. Authorities determined that the body had been burned and suspect that was done deliberately to hinder identification efforts. Her clothes were described as a light pink shirt, pink sweater with small blue spots, pants, bra and hat with a palm tree design. The last significant report to mention the Redhead Murders may have undercut the theory of its existence. WSMV News, Added: Prior to 2011; The Cheatham County Emergency Management Agency confirmed one person had died in the heavy storms Wednesday across Middle Tennessee. She had escaped a youth development center in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1984 and never returned. The body was the third redhead found strangled and dumped near an interstate in a two-year span. An examination of her teeth showed that the victim had some evidence of crowding and overlapping in her mouth. Nicholss body wasnt far from a truck stop; police believed shed been hitchhiking. Date of Birth: June 29, 1946 On April 14, 1985, a young female was found near Greeneville, Tennessee. Updated: November 4, 2011 Biography ID: 60357209 (TBI) There was not enough remains to provide for a reconstruction. Theyre frequently picked up at truck stops or service stations then sexually assaulted, murdered and their bodies dumped along the roadside. PLEASANT VIEW, Tenn. (WKRN) Authorities have determined the identity of the man found in a Cheatham County cave over the weekend. This song is based off a missing woman story from Cheatham County, TN in 1986 that still remains unsolved. ** Listed information is from the time of disappearance. Matthews says there is a tentative identification of a victim in Knox County, Kentucky. The victim was located eight miles west of Decatur, Arkansas off of Highway 102 in Rogers, Arkansas on May 7, 1990. She was clothed and possibly as old as 40 when she died. She had a hysterectomy and a tracheotomy. [15] She was Caucasian, and had shoulder-length curly red hair. 2023 www.tennessean.com. Martha's twin brother, Lawson Green, picked up from her hostess job at the Holiday Inn on April 15, 1987. She was estimated to be 30 to 40 years old. In April 1985, representatives from law enforcement agencies in Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Kentucky, Arkansas and Tennessee met in Nashville to discuss the killings and disposal of a series of redheaded women along interstates. The connection was made after Othram Laboratories located a possible family member in the Lafayette area and TBI intelligence analysts located several relatives there, who confirmed they had a relative who disappeared in 1978. Agency Contact Person: N/A We have such a large area that we would like to give all focus on the Cheatham County area. [11][8][12][13] The suspect was informally called the "Bible Belt Strangler" in 2018, because the territory where the bodies were found was part of the Bible Belt. It is believed she had been placed at the location around the time she went missing a decade earlier, in 1975. PLEASANT VIEW, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Cheatham County Sheriff's Office is looking for a 17-year-old who has been missing for nearly one week. Then in 1986, Thomas Lee Elkins from Pennsylvania was detained and questioned in relation to the murders. The co-worker also stated that Judith suspected she was pregnant by the neighbor, but this was never confirmed. Name: Marcy Jo Andrews Case Classification: Endangered Missing Missing Since: February 14, 1984 Location Last Seen: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Physical Description Date of Birth: January 1, 1960 Age: 24 years old Race: White Gender: Female Height: 5'1" Weight: 120 lbs. A photo of a similar car is posted with this case summary. She was estimated to be 14 to 20 years old (possibly as old as 25). The area was often used to dump trash illegally. If you come across them, do not attempt to apprehend them yourself. She worked as a nurse's aide at a nursing home, was married and had three children. People close to Judith say she would never have abandoned her children. In a 2008 interview with the Greenville Sun, Capt. She was approximately five feet three inches tall. We're just waiting and it'll be one day and it'll happen and we'll know the answer.". He was later dismissed in the Redhead murders case but was convicted of the woman's kidnapping in 1987. [65][66] She was identified on October 25, 2022 by Othram Inc. as Donna who was last seen in the fall of 1989. When found, the body was nude and badly decomposed but a preliminary autopsy found she had been stabbed but a blow to her head had caused her death. 29, 1991 1247DMAL A. Davis She was clothed and possibly as old as 40 when she died. Someone had strangled the redheaded woman then buried her under leaves and sticks on Tennessees Monteagle Mountain. Judith Ehmke was last seen November 26, 1986. A possible suspect emerged circa 1985, when a 37-year-old trucker, Jerry Leon Johns, attacked and attempted to strangle a woman with reddish hair. Nichols was from West Virginia but police werent able to find her familya couple shed stayed with in Florida identified her in June 1985. Police made a particularly grim and strange discovery the next day in Knox County, Kentucky. Thirty-two bones, including her skull, were recovered from the scene. [21], Recent forensic analysis of the victim's remains indicated she was not native to the area where she was discovered. When her kids got home, her husband said Judith had taken off with another man. Missing: Danielle Mouton. "When they opened the door, they found this lady," Knox County, Ky., Coroner Walter Hopper Jr. said in an article from The Advocate-Messenger in Danville, Ky. This suspect was also dismissed from this investigation, after being questioned by Tennessee police. These items may or may not belong to her. The Charley Project is NOT a registered non-profit organization and any donations will NOT be tax-deductible. A pair of senior citizens reported the body, which they originally had thought was a display mannequin. Over the years, investigators have questioned several truckers, like in March 1985, when they thought they had caught a break. Do You Have Any? They were driving back to their family's residence in White Bluff, Tennessee in a Monte Carlo with tinted windows that Lawson had borrowed, when the vehicle ran out of gas on Highway 46 near Fabric Road in Dickson County, Tennessee at approximately 9:00 p.m. Police made a particularly grim and strange discovery the next day in Knox County, Kentucky. [15] The victim was found clothed, in a tan pullover, a shirt, and jeans. (Wikiwand). Her case remains unsolved. Martha's handbag was still inside the vehicle, as were the keys. He died in prison in 2010 after being convicted of killing his girlfriend. Victim). Max Smith is editor of The Ashland City Times. Date of Birth: 03/13/1986: Siskiyou County Sheriffs Department (530) 841-2900 Case Number: 1140252 , Tanner Sharp Sex: Male Race: White Date of Birth: 12/26/1985: . Call 1-800-543-5678 or email mpu@wsp.wa.gov to request assistance with a missing child case. [34], Priscilla Ann Blevins (March 29, 1948 - c. July 8, 1975) was a 27 year old woman whose skeletal remains were found along Interstate 40 in Waynesville, North Carolina on March 29, 1985. He was previously convicted in 1987 of aggravated kidnapping, assault, and other crimes in the attack on a woman, Linda Schacke, that he had picked up in Knox County, Tennessee, two months after Farmer's disappearance and death. Missing: Jennifer Enyart. Details of Disappearance Judith was last seen on November 26, 1986 at approximately 7:00 a.m. RELATED:Family of missing Cheatham 9-year-old Jordan Allen Gorman is no stranger to tragedy When he left home, he was barefoot, wearing a short-sleeved gray t-shirt with red stripes on the arms . Woody Harrelson Is the Latest "SNL" Host to Deliver a Controversial Monologue, Some Doctors Are Now Making More Dubious Claims About Ivermectin. Missing Last seen alive: November 26, 1986 Circumstances: Last seen when husband picked up from work on morning of 11/26/1986. Cheatham County was created by an Act of the Tennessee General Assembly in 1856, from lands formerly of Davidson, Dickson, Montgomery, and Robertson counties. The sweater worn but by the Jane Doe discovered in Cheatham County. She is believed to have been murdered. Please enable JavaScript to view the page content. ; March 31, 1985, in Ashland City; April 1, 1985, in Corbin, Ky., and Greenville, Tenn. At the time, authorities were baffled by the serial deaths and weren't even sure if the same person was responsible for them all. If you have any information on these cases you can call the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) at 1-800-TBI-FIND. [35][36][37], On May 25, 1981, law enforcement recovered the decedent from a low water crossing on Highway MM near Dixon, Missouri. Several bones were recovered along with what appeared to be shotgun wadding. She had blondish-red hair and she had previously fractured her left femur. 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. After the victim had been shot, she was set on fire. [45][46] She was determined to have been killed, between three and six weeks previously, by severe blunt-force trauma and possibly a stab wound; her body was in an advanced state of decomposition. Possible redhead victim number three was found by I-75 not far from Jellico, Tennessee on New Years Day, 1985. 100 Public Square, Suite 225, Ashland City, TN 37015. It also found that she was around 10-12 weeks pregnant and had recently given birth. [3] Despite his exclusion from the case, it was announced that DNA from Johns was matched to Tina Farmer via CODIS in 2016. She was found in mid-February 1983 by an elderly couple, who believed the body was a mannequin lying facedown in the snow, according to the Doe Network file on the victim. Kidnappings & Missing Persons. A partial skeleton, 32 bones in all, was discovered in April 1985. [23], On August 30, 2022, she was identified as 15-year-old Tracy Sue Walker of Lafayette, Indiana. Shed just learned she was pregnant. 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. Witnesses described seeing a middle-aged white male about fivefeet teninches (178cm) and weighing 185 to 200 pounds (84 to 91kg) near the area where the body was found. In the morning, she was picked up by her husband from her overnight job at a nursing home. Over the next four months, three more redheaded victims would be found dumped near interstates in Tennessee and Kentucky. Additional Personal Items: Unknown. Download the News 2 app to stay updated on the go. Schacke survived the attack, after she was bound, strangled, and dumped along I-40. He may have been suffering from delusions and had a substantial amount of money on him. [57][58], Roane County Jane Doe was a woman found on August 29, 1987 in Roane County, Tennessee. Hair Color: Dark brown hair, streaked with gray Officials with the Cheatham County Sheriff's Office opened an investigation into the death of a missing Pegram woman. However, her case is possibly linked to the redhead murders because her remains were found at the side of Interstate 24 between mile markers 29 and 30. When discovered, she was only wearing a pair of socks and two gold chains, one with a gold eagle and one with a gold heart. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued an endangered child alert for a 9-year-old boy out of Cheatham County. "Nobody is looking for them. Rob Bonta Missing Person Search If you think you know the whereabouts of any person, BEFORE TAKING ANY ACTION, please contact the law enforcement agency listed in the record, or the California Department of Justice using the toll-free hotline: 1-800-222-FIND (1-800-222-3463) or contact us by email. [1][2][3] The murders may have continued until 1992. Richards was subsequently murdered in prison and was never charged in Martha's case, but he is still considered the primary suspect in her disappearance. A skeletonized red-haired female was found March 31, 1985, in Pleasant View, Tennessee. With a lack of clues, investigators quickly exhausted leads and no one came forward to identify the body. [26][27], On March 31, 1985, the skeletonized body of a red-haired female was found in Pleasant View, Cheatham County, Tennessee. Agency Case Number: N/A, Website dedicated to Judith Ehmke In the morning, she was picked up by her husband from her overnight job at a nursing home. Federal authorities suspect her boyfriend at the time, George Alvin Bruton, for her murder. He was incarcerated in Florida on rape charges after she went missing. So every time I see Barney, that's what I think of." Wednesday marks the 25th anniversary of the last time anyone's seen his sister, Celina Mays. Investigators believe she was placed in the refrigerator after death because there were "no scratched on the inner walls of the refrigerator showing she tried to get out.". Inside a white refrigerator with a Super Woman . Nashville police were familiar with Jarvis, who had "the second longest prostitute record in Nashville and Davidson County," a Metro Nashville Vice squad sergeant told The Tennessean in 1984. She worked as a nurse's aide at a nursing home, was married and had three children. Darrell arrived shortly thereafter with groceries and opened the residence. In her self-published ebook The Redhead Murders, author Jane Carlisle notes the killerif indeed there was just onewanted to find girls and women who werent going to have anybody come looking for them. Nancy Lynn Blankenship was one of the few with a name and an apparently normal home lifeif she was a victim of the killer at all. Blevins' sister, however, commented that the circumstances of the decedent's discovery appeared to be involuntary. Copyright 2023 InsideHook. Her only distinguishing features were a Caesarean scar and a set of top dentures, according to a news report at the time. The victims live high-risk, transient lifestyles, often involving substance abuse and sex work. She was a white woman between 14-20 years old, standing 5'4"-5'6", weighing around 130 pounds. Her bones showed evidence of injury to her throat andoddlythat shed only been in the water for five years. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said the body was. He al . This is the second time in the past month a body was found inside a burned vehicle in the Cheatham County area. According to one of Judith's daughters, the neighbor was also viewed as a potential suspect in her mother's case. Example video title will go here for this video. [3][9][10] Of the presumed victims, four were identified by November 2018. [59][60], Stacy Lyn Chahorski (1969 - c. September 16, 1988) was a woman who was found strangled to death in Rising Fawn, Georgia in late 1988. Ashland City, Cheatham County, Tennessee. In 2019, her age range was adjusted to 25 and 35. There was a note placed in a typewriter in the Ehmkes' residence, stating that Judith was tired of her husband "controlling" her and had decided to leave him for another man. [20], In 2019, DNA evidence identified convicted kidnapper Jerry Leon Johns as the man that killed Tina Marie McKenney Farmer in December 1984. The travelers from Indiana stumbled upon the grim scene when their car had overheated and they ventured into the wood line looking for water for their radiator. Her husband, Darrell "Tex" Ehmke, picked her up from the Cheatham County Nursing Home, where Judith was employed as a nurse's aide. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. CHEATHAM COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) A Cheatham County deputy escaped serious injury after he was almost run over by domestic violence suspect. Her car was found in a storage unit owned by Bruton. Suspicion reportedly did at first fall on her husband. She was 2.5 to 5 months pregnant when murdered. She has never been seen again. Middle Tennessee Mysteries is dedicated to shining a light on cold cases, unsolved murders and missing people in Tennessee. When her kids got home, her husband said Judith had taken off with another man. Michelle Willard. The Two Rivers Tribune reported McConnell was a former Hoopa resident who had been dating Bingham . The knot in the cloth found in a piece of material found tied around the neck of the Campbell County victim was very similar to the knot in a piece of material found tied around Linda Schacke's neck two months following the Campbell County victim. The decedent was found clothed but without shoes and was estimated to be between 25 and 40 years of age. Missing Person Quarterly Bulletin, pdf. Her testimony assisted in putting Johns behind bars. 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