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Larry Via is suspected of killing Morgan Peters on a Pennsylvnia turnpike in 1972. Police charged him last week after they discovered a story the 75-year-old had written for a biker magazine in the 1980s bore a striking similarity to Peters’ murder.
In September 1972, two college students driving on a Pennsylvania turnpike en route to the University of Cincinnati pulled over to urinate when they accidentally stumbled upon a man with a bullet hole in his back lying face down in a ditch.
It was Morgan Peters, a 29-year-old Olympic wrestler from Long Island. He had been fatally shot. Authorities found his red Ford pickup truck nearby. Police determined a small calibre firearm killed the young man, but never made any arrests. And for 47 years, the case remain unsolved.
But last week, police charged 75-year-old Larry Via in Peters’ killing after authorities said he described the slaying — and other crimes, including a different murder he supposedly committed — in short stories he penned for sleazy and obscure biker magazines in the 1980s, according to an affidavit of probable cause obtained by Oxygen.com.
Via, who is currently serving a life sentence in a Ohio prison for the 1972 murder of 19-year-old motorist Jane Maguire — who was bound, raped, and shot three times — was charged last week with first-degree murder and robbery in connection to Peters’ killing. Police had been working to connect Via to the decades-old murder since 2009.
47-Year-Old Murder Mystery On Pennsylvania Turnpike Solved Thanks To Short Story In Biker Magazine, Cops Say
In September 1972, two college students driving on a Pennsylvania turnpike en route to the University of Cincinnati pulled over to urinate when they accidentally stumbled upon a man with a bullet hole in his back lying face down in a ditch.
It was Morgan Peters, a 29-year-old Olympic wrestler from Long Island. He had been fatally shot. Authorities found his red Ford pickup truck nearby. Police determined a small calibre firearm killed the young man, but never made any arrests. And for 47 years, the case remain unsolved.
But last week, police charged 75-year-old Larry Via in Peters’ killing after authorities said he described the slaying — and other crimes, including a different murder he supposedly committed — in short stories he penned for sleazy and obscure biker magazines in the 1980s, according to an affidavit of probable cause obtained by Oxygen.com.
Via, who is currently serving a life sentence in a Ohio prison for the 1972 murder of 19-year-old motorist Jane Maguire — who was bound, raped, and shot three times — was charged last week with first-degree murder and robbery in connection to Peters’ killing. Police had been working to connect Via to the decades-old murder since 2009.
47-Year-Old Murder Mystery On Pennsylvania Turnpike Solved Thanks To Short Story In Biker Magazine, Cops Say
