To this day, the specter of the Red Garrote Strangler haunts cold case files. In 2019, a detective in Portland, Oregon, reopened a 1982 homicide after DNA technology advanced. The victim, a young man named Leo Petrov, had been found with a red bungee cord around his neck. The DNA did not match Harold Meeks, proving that either Meeks had an unknown accomplice or that a second, distinct "Red Garrote" killer existed.
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"We're missing prints because he knows how to avoid them," Mara said. "We're missing motive because nobody knew these women in a way that mattered to someone with that level of control." To this day, the specter of the Red