The Highway Killer Who Was Freed to Kill Again: Larry Eyler’s 21 Victims
He was already in police custody. Then a judge let him go—and more young men started disappearing along the interstates.
In the early 1980s, bodies of teenage boys and young men began turning up in fields and ditches near highways across Indiana and Illinois. Stabbed, bound, and dumped. Police suspected one man: Larry Eyler, a house painter who drove a pickup and moved easily between Chicago and Indiana. He was arrested once. Key evidence was thrown out. He walked free. Months later, a janitor in Chicago opened a dumpster and found the dismembered remains of 16-year-old Daniel Bridges.
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