The I-57 Killer: Henry Brisbon’s Trail of Blood
On a June night in 1973, a teenage gunman forced an engaged couple to the side of Interstate 57 and ordered them to “kiss your last kiss” before opening fire. Henry Brisbon’s murderous spree that night left three people dead for almost nothing—and it was only the beginning.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson examines the brutal I-57 killings, Brisbon’s later murder of a fellow inmate with a sharpened soup ladle, his attacks on death-row prisoners (including John Wayne Gacy), and why prosecutors once called him “a walking testimonial for the death penalty.”
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