Kaelin Moore

Like, they knew that those four were probably connected.

But there's not a lot of information as to what they were doing about those four.

Yeah.

Well, some of them were even questioning whether Mary was a victim of this serial killer at all because she didn't fit the profile of the others as far as age.

She was 30 years older than them.

She was also not a sex worker, even though now we know that one of them, at least one of them, wasn't a sex worker as well.

But as the murders continued to go unsolved, the public grew more concerned.

At the time, no one even really knew that this task force had been created to look into these crimes.

But on October 28, 2001, about three weeks after Brenda Beasley's murder, an article mentioned that different jurisdictions had actually begun working together.

And for a little while, it seemed like this announcement...

did truly make a difference because throughout the winter of 2001 into 2002, the murders came to a stop.

The police actually figured that the killer had died or he simply left the area or he went to prison.

Or maybe he was just laying low in the wake of all this publicity.

And so maybe because of this, the community of sex workers in St.

Louis were able to breathe this collective sigh of relief because whoever was doing this was gone, at least for now.

But that did not last long at all.

In early 2002, workers with the Illinois Department of Transportation found three more bodies alongside highways in southwestern Illinois.

One body was found on January 30th, one was found on March 11th, and one was found on March 28th.

In each case, the bodies had been dumped months earlier.

By the time they were discovered, they were just skeletons.