In a rural town of only 10,000, eight woman were murdered between the years 2005 and 2009. For years the Police Department implied that they had a serial killer on their hands but decades later it is now thought that something more sinister was going on involving a police cover-up.

Sources for this episode include The Murder Squad, the subreddit "Unsolved Mysteries," a Medium article titled "Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8" by Ethan Brown, a Medium article titled "Who Killed the Woman Known as the Jeff Davis 8?" by Ethan Brown, the Bayou Brief, Rolling Stone Magazine, Biography, Oxygen True Crime, Meaww, Refinery29, The Washington Post, AETV Real Crime, and KATC,