The Houston Police Department’s composite sketch of the Texas victim (Picture: HPD)

Police are investigating whether a serial killer is decapitating ginger women after grim discoveries of red-haired women’s heads.

The dead women, both red-haired with good teeth, police said, were found in plastic bags around 150 miles apart last month in Louisiana and Texas.

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The Houston Chronicle reported no one has been arrested for the killings and police are exploring whether the cases are linked.

On March 1 a head was found in undergrowth near Calcasieu Lake in Louisiana, then on March 24 the remains of the second victim were found, again in undergrowth, near Lake Houston in Texas.


Police in Louisiana believe the woman, whose head was found by a prisoner cleaning the side of Highway 27, was killed recently.

The spot where the Texas head was found (Picture: HPD)

The Houston Police Department released samples of the dead woman’s hair (Picture: HPD)

Cameron Parish Sheriff Ron Johnson told KLFY-TV: ‘It definitely had not been there for years, maybe a few months.’



The second woman’s head was near a recreational vehicle park and a composite sketch was released of the victim by Texas authorities.

The Cameron Parish Sheriff’s Office and Houston Police Department are sharing information in a bid to find the identity of the killer and the women.

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