August 22, 2016 – The Charley Project Blog

Red hair, says Wikipedia, occurs naturally in only one to two percent of the human population. I thought I’d do a list of the redheads on Charley.

This is a relatively long list. And…predominantly female. If I were to guess why that is, I’d say that probably a lot of them dyed their hair. Women color their hair more frequently than men. I excluded from the list people whom I knew for a fact had dyed their hair red, but I’m sure there are a lot of cases where I just don’t have that information. I also excluded people with ambiguously red hair — i.e. “blond/red” or “brown/red” etc.

When I’m writing up a casefile, in terms of hair and eyes, I will go by whatever colors my source says they are regardless of what the photo looks like. If my source doesn’t have that information, but I have a color photo, I will hazard a guess from the photograph as to hair color, but not to eye color unless it’s a super close up picture. With Asians and African-Americans, absent evidence to the contrary, I assume their hair is black and their eyes, brown.

(Question: suppose a person dyes their hair some other natural hair color, and they disappear before any roots start showing, and then their body turns up — short of DNA testing, is there any way for the medical examiner or whomever to tell their hair was dyed?)

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

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Day: August 22, 2016

Make-a-List Monday: Redheads