Larry Eyler

 VICTIMS: 20+

In 1978 Eyler was arrested for stabbing a young male. He had put the kid in handcuffs first. But the kid fled from the hospital before police could get a statement so Eyler was released.

Known victims -
March 22, 1982 - Jay Reynolds. Stabbed to death outside Lexington Kentucky.
October 3, 1992 - Delvoyd Baker, 14, found strangled and dumped in Indianapolis.
October 23, 1992 - Steven Crockett, 19, stabbed 32 times (4 in the head), dumped outside Lowell, Indiana.
November 6, 1982 - Robert Foley, dumped outside Joliet.
December 25, 1982 - John Johnson, 25, left in a field outside Belshaw, Indiana.
December 28, 1982 - A double header, John Roach, 21, outside Belleville and Steven Agan, found still tied up, in Newport, Indiana.
5 more wound up dead in the next few months.
August 31, 1983 - No.13 goes down. Ralph Calise was dead less than 12 hours when discovered in a field outside Lake Forest, Illinios. He had been stabbed 17 times and his pants were down around his ankles.

On September 30 - Eyler detained on traffic violation. His boot prints and tyre tracks matched those found near Calise body. BUT police had no firm evidence so Eyler remained free.

October 4, 1983 - Derrick Hansen, 14, found sexually abused and dismembered in Kenosha, Washington.
October 15, 1983 - 'John Doe' discovered near Rensselear, Indiana.
October 18, 1983 - 4 bodies found in Newton County, dumped together. All had their pants pulled down. One was decapitated.
December 5, 1983 - 'John Doe' found near Effington, Illinois.
December 7, 1983 - Richard Wayne and another 'John Doe' found dead near Indianapolis.

By now the police had loads of circumstantial evidence on Eyler. they had connected him to 18 murders.

The police found an Eyler survivor, Craig Townsend, who identified Eyler though a photo line-up.

By now the police were following Eyler everywhere so he took a lawsuit out against them, trying to get himself $500,000. This attempt failed and he was arrested for the murder of Ralph Calise.

Eyler beat the Calise charge. The Judge threw it out because the police obtained evidence illegally.

February 1, 1984 - Eyler was released on bond awaiting further trials.

August 21, 1984 - Cops called to dumpster that Eyler had just been seen dumping 8 trash bags into. When open the police found that the bags contained most of Danny Bridges, 15.

Eyler went down this time.

October, 1986 - Eyler sentenced to Die by lethal injection.

In 1990 Eyler made the news again when he offered information on 20 more murders if his sentence was commuted to life. The state refused and he was left sitting on death row.
On March 6, 1994, Larry Eyler eventually did defeat the state by dying of an AIDS related disease, making certain that he could not be executed.

A Very Funny Bit of Information.
Larry Eyler lived with his lover (male) and his lovers wife and three kids.
Very fucking weird bunch of people I reckon.
 

MY OPINION

Larry Eyler is one of those killers that you have to love for their sheer arrogance. To keep on killing even after the police know it's you takes a special individual, and that's what I think Eyler was. Of the homosexual killers from the 70's and 80's Eyler is one of my favourites. I particularly like the fact that the final murder (Bridges) was killed exactly the same way as an earlier murder. Maybe this was an excuse to be caught, but I prefer to think it was a kick in the face of the police. Either way Eyler deserves to be seen eternally as one of the more important of the U.S. homo killers.