Their findings are the subject of a new podcast, ‘Murder 101’
To catch a killer, you have to use all your resources – like a group of high school students.
Students in Tennessee made the grade after they identified a possible suspect in a string of cold case slayings. And for extra credit, they landed their own true crime podcast that explains how they cracked the case.
Alex Campbell, a sociology and history teacher at Elizabethton High School, had his 2018 class try to solve a cold case of multiple slayings. The teacher, however, never thought that they would pin down a prime suspect, according to the New York Post .
Campbell tasked the amateur sleuths with finding leads on the Redhead Murders , in which the bodies of 14 possible victims were found along major highways in the South between 1978 and 1992.
He told the class to be prepared to not find many results in their investigation, since law-enforcement officials had gotten no closer to finding a suspect after years of investigating.