Another murder in the Acres Home area has reignited fear that a serial killer is back at work.

Acres Home resident Betty Jean Williams is used to all the traffic in her neighborhood and the trash and old tires in the ditch in her street, but Saturday morning that dump site became a crime scene.

“I mean it’s terrible the way they come down here. You swear the freeway, you can’t go that fast on the freeway. This is always everybody’s dump,” Williams said.

A neighbor discovered a woman’s dead body in the ditch.  Police said she was murdered.

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Police work the scene where a woman's body was found in Acres Home.

“It just happens they happen to find a body today,” resident Thelma Lestramp said.

“She was found completely nude. At this point we don’t know the cause of death,” Det. Steve Straughter said.

Police said they are investigating the case as an individual murder, but residents immediately thought back to last year, when the same area was terrorized by an apparent serial killer.

“You know, this went on so bad last year. Every week or so they were finding a body,” resident Lonnie Harrison said.

Six bodies were found in all, all of them black women.  They were discovered over a period from January to May of 2006. 

Still, investigators stopped short of calling the latest murder the work of a serial killer.

“We have had other victims in this area, but we don’t know if they are going to be related to this one or not. We don’t know,” Straughter said.

Betty Jean Williams has a theory.

“Drugs. That’s all it is. They can say all they want, it ain’t nothing but them drugs. That’s all it is,” she said.

It’s also a murder mystery that has her neighborhood on edge, once again.