IN IN/IL, LARRY EYLER, "The Highway Murderer" (KY/OH/WI?) Gay Serial Killer

[madamx]

About Larry Eyler: American serial killer (1952 - 1994) | Biography, Facts, Career, Wiki, Life

 

[Al Ka]

Identified! - IN - Lake Village, 'Brad' 1384UMIN, Eyler victim, Oct'83 - John Ingram Brandenburg, Jr.

Brad Doe, found in Oct 1983 was identified only this April 2021 by DNA Doe Project as 19 year old Johnny Ingram Brandenburg Jr. from Chicago.

 

[Al Ka]

Larry Eyler's other victim - Jasper County John Doe, found in Oct 1983 in Indiana now also known as Doe "Ellis" has just been taken on by Redgrave Research Forensic Services.

IN - IN - Rensselaer, WhtMale UP11379, SK victim, 'Arlene' on Zippo lighter, Mar'82

 

[tarabull]

CRIME HUNTER: Larry Eyler trolled Midwest for murder victims

To the janitor of the Chicago building, the trash cans felt heavy.

torontosun.com

 

[wcpigman06]

I feel dumb for not bookmarking it or at the very least remembering what I was reading. But I didn’t!

l was reading something about Eyler the other day and it said something about him killing four people in Kentucky (in addition to Jay Reynolds).

Has anyone else seen anything of that nature?
Or could find something that isn’t available to me (like any of the “pay” news archives).

I really want to find out about this. I wonder how close it was to me, if that is actually true.

Have you found anything new about the four people in Kentucky?

 

[wcpigman06]

I see that this thread hasn't had any activity in a long time, but I will post this Q anyway: Does anyone know where Eyler was between Sept. and Dec. 1979/Jan. 1980, and whether he had any friends or relatives living in the suburbs west of Columbus, particularly the Galloway area?

From what I can gather, Eyler would have been finished with college by this time , even though he didn't graduate. He was likely living with Prof. L some of the time -- or at least using the prof's residence as one home base. However, Eyler was very nomadic and I am looking for more specific information about where he was during these four months. I am wondering, for instance, if he could have stayed on and off with relatives/friends in Galloway during this time.

Thanks in advance to anyone who knows or thinks they can find something.

Look into the stabbing death of Mark Stephen Rybarski 22 of Lexington Kentucky on December 5, 1979.

 

[DS2021]

Paxton doe is finally in namus

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[bflocket]

Look into the stabbing death of Mark Stephen Rybarski 22 of Lexington Kentucky on December 5, 1979.

What happened with Rybarski?
He apparently died in Lexington, but is buried in Newton County, IN (where the barn with multiple Eyler victims were found). That’s confusing to the point that it’s almost ridiculous.

Mark S Rybarski (1957-1979) - Find a Grave...

www.findagrave.com

 

[clousseau]

What happened with Rybarski?
He apparently died in Lexington, but is buried in Newton County, IN (where the barn with multiple Eyler victims were found). That’s confusing to the point that it’s almost ridiculous.

Mark S Rybarski (1957-1979) - Find a Grave...

www.findagrave.com

I have taken interest in this case and wish to compile as much information as I can. To answer this question he was from Newton County and that is why he was buried there. I hope this clears up any confusion.

 

[clousseau]

Look into the stabbing death of Mark Stephen Rybarski 22 of Lexington Kentucky on December 5, 1979.

I have taken interest in this case and wish to compile as much information as I can.

Larry Eyler - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Larry Eyler (1952-1994)

*According to Lake County Sheriff Robert Babcox,
Eyler can be charming, soft-spoken and polite,
"but at night,
he is the macho, beer-drinking homosexual type."

I guess that was just the Sheriff's way of saying that the suspect "had a really, really dark side" back in 1984, but comes off sounding rather homophobic today.
(Especially since the term "serial killer" isn't any where in his description)



Other than being gay and drinking beer, Larry Eyler was a really, really sick guy.
He did a lot of really, really bad things.
In fact, he did so many really bad things that he was sentenced to death in 1986.

And thanks to all of the time and legal wrangling involved with Death Row, Eyler died of AIDS in 1994 before he could pay for the vicious murders of nearly 25 young men.

Larry Eyler also had an "aide" (if not full partner-in-crime) who was present at several of his murders, if not participating himself. This partner, a respected college professor, was tried for his role in the series of murders nearly a decade after Eyler's arrest and was acquitted.



Wikipedia has a short overview of the bare-basics of Eyler's crimes.
[ame="[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Eyler"]Larry Eyler - Wikipedia[/URL]"]Larry Eyler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Here is a fairly detailed bio of Eyler that I first saw on CourtTV's website (so it's "kind of" old) but it's still probably the best one I've found.
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"Murderpedia" has a pretty good page on Eyler cobbled together from a bunch of different places (including the Crime Library bio I linked above).
Larry Eyler | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

*http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eZkrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=G_gFAAAAIBAJ&dq=larry-eyler lexington&pg=7026,1543949

 

[clousseau]

There is a 3 1/2 year gap between Eylers first attack of Craig Long (Aug 3, 1978) in Terre Haute, IN and Eylers first known murder of Jan Reynolds (Mar 22, 1982) in Lexington, KY. 22 yr old Mark R was found stabbed to death on a roadside on Dec 5, 1979 in Lexington, KY, where he was going to college, but is not considered a victim of Eyler in any public documentation that I have seen. I have heard that police suspected Eyler but I don't know which police force made that statement yet and to who they made that statement to? Lexington PD or the task force in Indiana where Mark R was from (ironically, Newton County)?

Is there a timeline available of Eylers movements/whereabouts, arrest records from 1978-1982?
A timeline is need for Mark R's movements in 1980 between Newton County where he's from and Lexington, KY where he went to school. If it was Eyler, how did they cross paths?

 

[DS2021]

I have heard that police suspected Eyler but I don't know which police force made that statement yet and to who they made that statement to? Lexington PD or the task force in Indiana where Mark R was from (ironically, Newton County)?

Try these


Edit. I think i misread, so potentially
disregard

I thought the article said that Eyler was a possible suspect in one of the other murders potentially connected to Mark's, but it seems LE shut that theory down

MR 1

Clipping found in Lexington Herald-Leader published in Lexington, Kentucky on 12/2/1984. MR 1

www.newspapers.com

Mr2

Clipping found in Lexington Herald-Leader published in Lexington, Kentucky on 12/2/1984. Mr2

www.newspapers.com

 

[clousseau]

Try these


Edit. I think i misread, so potentially
disregard

I thought the article said that Eyler was a possible suspect in one of the other murders potentially connected to Mark's, but it seems LE shut that theory down

MR 1

Clipping found in Lexington Herald-Leader published in Lexington, Kentucky on 12/2/1984. MR 1

www.newspapers.com

Mr2

Clipping found in Lexington Herald-Leader published in Lexington, Kentucky on 12/2/1984. Mr2

www.newspapers.com

In the article Lt Bizzack said that there were "similarities" in the murders of Rybarski (1979), and Haddix (1982) and Reynolds (1983). Then further in the article it stated there were no suspects and were investigating the similarities in the slayings of Haddix and Reynolds.

In the Haddix murder there was nothing said in the article about potential suspects.
In the Reynolds murder it said they have a suspect and much evidence had been gathered but no indictments had been obtained. Bizzack said the Chicago Tribune reports linking the deaths of Reynolds and Haddix to Larry Eyler are INACCURATE.

Keeping in mind the article and interview was in 1984 it seems they may have had a suspect they didn't want to divulge at the time. But at some point Reynolds death was indeed attributed to Eyler.

One observation, the population of Lexington, Ky in 1980 was around 204,000. Seems to me they had quite a few murders in that neck of the woods. Maybe its me.

 

[DS2021]

I know that after he died,he had his lawyer release a list of victims. I wonder how complete that list is.

Afaik theres Dwayne doe, Paxton Doe, and "Cowboy" whose remains werent recovered, left unidentified

 

[clousseau]

According to the Eyler Wikipedia page, it was stated that Eylers attorney believed Eyler was thruthful in his confession and had no reason to lie. In his confession he stated ISU Prof Robert Little was an accomplice (mastermind). Little went to trial and was acquitted. I found this link about Little interesting: WANTED (dead or alive)

Reynolds was identified by the FBI NCIC and by the CIMAIT taskforce as being a victim of Eyler (based on the wounds?) but Mark R and Haddix were not. This answers my previous post about the connection.

So the FBI, the CIMAIT Task Force and a book or two that have been written about the "Highway Murderer" have failed to link the two Lexington murders of Rybarski and Haddix to Eyler.

Is it just a freak coincidence that many of the Eyler murders occured in Newton County, IN the same place where Mark R is from?

What's different or missing with Mark R and Leyland H murders that it cannot be solved?

 

[skippigman]

There is a 3 1/2 year gap between Eylers first attack of Craig Long (Aug 3, 1978) in Terre Haute, IN and Eylers first known murder of Jan Reynolds (Mar 22, 1982) in Lexington, KY. 22 yr old Mark R was found stabbed to death on a roadside on Dec 5, 1979 in Lexington, KY, where he was going to college, but is not considered a victim of Eyler in any public documentation that I have seen. I have heard that police suspected Eyler but I don't know which police force made that statement yet and to who they made that statement to? Lexington PD or the task force in Indiana where Mark R was from (ironically, Newton County)?

Is there a timeline available of Eylers movements/whereabouts, arrest records from 1978-1982?
A timeline is need for Mark R's movements in 1980 between Newton County where he's from and Lexington, KY where he went to school. If it was Eyler, how did they cross paths?

I have taken interest in this case and wish to compile as much information as I can. To answer this question he was from Newton County and that is why he was buried there. I hope this clears up any confusion.

Try these


Edit. I think i misread, so potentially
disregard

I thought the article said that Eyler was a possible suspect in one of the other murders potentially connected to Mark's, but it seems LE shut that theory down

MR 1

Clipping found in Lexington Herald-Leader published in Lexington, Kentucky on 12/2/1984. MR 1

www.newspapers.com

Mr2

Clipping found in Lexington Herald-Leader published in Lexington, Kentucky on 12/2/1984. Mr2

www.newspapers.com

What do you mean by "LE shut that theory down"