LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDKY) — After 27 years without answers, Kentucky police have tied the unsolved homicide that haunted the Lexington department to a known serial killer.
Investigators now say 43-year-old Linda Rutledge was killed by Robert Eugene Brashers.
“This guy is your worst nightmare. This guy is terrifying to me,” Áine Cain, journalist and co-host of “The Murder Sheet” podcast, told Nexstar’s WDKY. “He was so violent. He was so cruel. He would bind victims. He would shoot them multiple times with guns. He would rape, and he just left a trail of carnage across the United States.”
Until now, it wasn’t known that the killer had traveled and committed crimes in Kentucky, and investigators have urged authorities to take another look at cold cases under similar circumstances…