A body found inside a discarded refrigerator in a Gray, Kentucky, woods on April 1, 1985, remained unidentified for decades. Two men searching for spare parts discovered the Caucasian woman with red hair; she was estimated to be 24 to 35 years old. An autopsy determined cause of death as asphyxiation. She wore two pairs of socks and two gold chain necklaces, one with an eagle pendant and one with a heart.

Investigators long treated her as the Knox County Jane Doe and at one point linked her death to a suspected pattern of killings of red-haired women in the Southeast, attributed by some to a possible perpetrator nicknamed the Redhead Murderer and speculated to be a truck driver, but no public arrests or named suspects emerged. In 2018 DNA testing confirmed the Jane Doe’s identity as Espy Regina Black-Pilgrim, known as Espy Pilgrim, after relatives responded to a 2017 public appeal.

The murder remains unsolved. If anyone knew Espy, her movements in 1985, or has information about the Redhead cases, please share what is known.