William Henry Redmond (January 22, 1922 – January 2, 1992) was an American child molester and suspected serial killer. Redmond, an Ohio native and former carnival worker, was indicted in 1988 for the 1951 Pennsylvania murder of 8-year-old Jane Marie Althoff. Redmond was also a suspect in the 1951 disappearance of 10-year-old Beverly Potts in Ohio and the unsolved murder of Maria Ridulph in 1957. While in prison, Redmond reportedly told a cellmate that he had killed at least three other young girls apart from Althoff. Life and criminal history Redmond was born on Sunday, January 22, 1922 in Conneaut, Ohio to Byron (1888 - 1928) and Edith Redmond (1887 - 1968). The early years of Redmond's life, particularly his youth, are largely unknown. After he sexually assaulted two young girls in Lancaster, Ohio in 1935, he was arrested for the first time and given a sentence that included time in both the Ohio State Reformatory and the Ohio State Psychiatric Hospital. He was detained once again in 1938 for the attempted rape and assault of a pre-teen girl in Conneaut, Ohio, and he was also charged with sexual assault in Florida in 1949. After serving a sentence for violating the Dwyer Act, Redmond was released from the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, in June 1949. On May 14, 1950, he was found guilty of disorderly conduct in Middletown, New York. Redmond worked as a truck driver and Ferris wheel operator for different travelling fairs. Redmond was charged in January 1988 with nine offences related to the murder of Jane Althoff in 1951 at a carnival he was working at, including criminal homicide, murder, involuntary manslaughter, kidnapping, simple assault, aggravated assault, unlawful restraint, indecent assault, and endangering the welfare of children. In Grand Island, Nebraska, where he had resided since 1963, he was arrested. Authorities discovered a stash of filthy women's underwear inside his home that they thought belonged to young girls. Redmond was extradited to Pennsylvania so that he might stand trial for the murder of Althoff. The beginning of Redmond's trial was delayed when the lead detective in Althoff's case refused to tell Redmond's attorney the name of an informant. A judge ruled that he was in contempt of court and banned the detective from testifying. Redmond died at age 69 on Thursday, January 2, 1992. An inmate who shared a cell with Redmond in 1988