On January 1, 1985, the body of a young woman was found down an embankment off the southbound side of Interstate 75 near Jellico, Tennessee. The Caucasian woman, with shoulder-length curly red hair, had been strangled roughly three days earlier. She was found bound and wrapped in a blanket and remained unidentified for 33 years as a Jane Doe.

In 2018 fingerprint analysis identified her as 21-year-old Tina Marie McKenney Farmer of Indiana. At the time of her death she was a mother to a young daughter and estimated to be ten to twelve weeks pregnant. Tina was last seen in Indianapolis, reportedly in the company of a truck driver who was headed to Kentucky; her family had reported her missing in 1984.

Seminal fluid recovered from the blanket later yielded a DNA profile that matched convicted kidnapper and truck driver Jerry Leon Johns. Johns, who had been a suspect in the mid-1980s after a survivor described a similar assault, died in custody in 2015. In 2019 a Campbell County grand jury found there was sufficient evidence to indict Johns for the first-degree murder of Tina Farmer had he still been alive.

If anyone knew Tina’s movements in late 1984 or saw a redheaded woman with a truck driver near Indianapolis or along I-75, please share what is known.