The town of Chillicothe has become the focus of an FBI investigation after the bodies of four of six missing women washed up in nearby creeks, sparking fears of a serial killer.
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In little more than a year, six young women from a small Ohio town have gone missing or washed up dead, sparking fears a serial killer may be on the loose.
Officials have said the victims were all mothers in their 20s and 30s and share similar stories. Some of the women were drug users and worked as prostitutes, and some knew each other. Local police, several county sheriff's offices, state investigators, and the FBI are looking into the mystery.
Four bodies were found in or near creeks that were flowing away from the small town of Chillicothe, The Washington Post reported. The latest victim, Tiffany Sayre, was found in a drainage pipe Saturday after vanishing for more than a month, police said.
"I don't want to come out and say 'yes, we have a serial killer,' but it's a small community that we live in … and the number of females who have come up missing, and then the bodies that we've found, that's quite a bit for our community," Staff Lt. Mike Preston of the Ross County Sheriff's Department told The Post.
The town of 21,000, about an hour south of Columbus, has fallen on hard times, residents and officials said.
"We are battling a problem with heroin in our community," Preston told the Post. He also said prostitution is on the rise.
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