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Larry William Eyler (December 21, 1952 – March 6, 1994) was an American serial killer who is believed to have murdered a minimum of twenty-one teenage boys and young men in a series of killings committed in the Midwest between 1982 and 1984.
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- The Highway Killer, The Interstate Killer
- Illinois, Death (October 3, 1986), Indiana, 60 years imprisonment (December 28, 1990)
- Larry Eyler’s Early Life
- Larry Eyler Turn Towards Violence
- Becoming The Highway Killer
- An Arrest, A Release, and Another Attack
- The Final Murder
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One need only glimpse Larry Eyler’s childhood to understand how he was driven to kill as an adult. Born Larry William Eyler on December 21, 1952, in Crawfordsville, Indiana to a battered mother and an alcoholic father, life was not easy for Eyler from the start. His father regularly beat him and his two older and one younger sibling. Even after his...
Though he was, arguably, one of the worst serial killers of the late ’70s and early ’80s, Larry Eyler was generally well-liked among his peers. In fact, following the Craig Long incident, his friends raised money and posted his $10,000 bond to get him released from prison. Following his completion of high school via a GED, Eyler took a job at the M...
It is believed that between 1982 and 1984 Larry Eyler picked up and murdered, at minimum, 21 young men. Their bodies were found strewn about the sides of highways or dropped unceremoniously in cornfields near major bypasses, earning Eyler his nickname of the “Highway Killer” or “Interstate Killer.” All of the men had been found with their pants and...
On September 30, 1983, Larry Eyler was arrested on a traffic violation. When he was pulled over there was a young hitchhiker in the car with him and based on the sketchy interactions between the two the officer arrested both men for solicitation. Following the arrest, Eyler’s truck was searched, revealing rope in the trunk, along with handcuffs, a ...
On August 21, 1984, a janitor discovered human remains in garbage bags in a Chicago apartment complex – the same complex to which Larry Eyler had relocated following his mess of a murder charge. The remains belonged to 16-year-old runaway Daniel Bridges. The teenager had been operating as a prostitute since he was 12 when he secured his last job wi...
Larry Eyler was a gay serial killer who targeted young men across the American Midwest in the late ’70s and early ’80s. He was arrested twice for attempted murder, but both times he was released without charge, leading to more deaths.
Jul 27, 2023 · Larry Eyler, known as the Highway Killer, murdered at least 21 young men. John Irvine/Chicago Tribune, via Associated Press. By Jesus Jiménez. July 27, 2023. For nearly 40 years, the remains of...
Jul 25, 2023 · DNA testing and genealogy helped to identify Keith Lavell Bibbs, 17, as one of the four young males killed by the "Highway Killer" in Indiana. Eyler confessed to multiple murders before his death in 1994.
Jun 6, 2023 · Larry Eyler was a serial murderer who targeted young men and left them half-naked along highways in the 1980s. Learn how police identified him, linked him to multiple crimes, and convicted him of killing at least 12 victims.
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Jul 27, 2023 · INDIANAPOLIS — Human remains found buried in 1983 at an abandoned Indiana farm have been identified as those of a Chicago teenager who was a victim of the late serial killer Larry Eyler,...
Jul 27, 2023 · Larry Eyler, the "Highway Killer" who confessed to 20 murders, died in 1994. Two of his unidentified victims, John Ingram Brandenburg and Keith Lavell Bibbs, were recently DNA-matched by the Newton County Coroner's Office.
