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JASPER COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 18-35, partial skeletal remains - 15
October 1983, victim of Larry Eyler
By: Akoya Date: June 20, 2020, 1:51 pm
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The victim 's scattered remains were discovered in Jasper
County, Indiana on October 15, 1983.
Serial killer Larry Eyeler admitted to murdering the victim,
possibly picking him up in the Vincinnes, Indiana area. He was
possibly last seen alive in Vincinnes by US 41.
Two other victims of Eyeler remain unidentified, 999UMIN and
1384UMIN.
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Re: JASPER COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 18-35, partial skeletal remains
- 15 October 1983, victim of Larry E
By: Akoya Date: June 20, 2020, 1:54 pm
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Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP11379Male, White / Caucasian
Date Body Found
October 15, 1983
Location Found
Rensselaer, Indiana
Estimated Age Range
18-35 Years
Case Information
Case Numbers
NCMEC Number
--
ME/C Case Number
13-20814
Demographics
Sex
Male
Race / Ethnicity
White / Caucasian
Estimated Age Group
Adult - Pre 30
Estimated Age Range (Years)
18-35
Estimated Year of Death
1982
Estimated PMI
--
Height
Cannot Estimate
Weight
Cannot Estimate
Circumstances
Type
Unidentified Deceased
Date Body Found
October 15, 1983
NamUs Case Created
June 21, 2013
ME/C QA Reviewed
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Location Found Map
Location
Rensselaer, Indiana 47978
County
Jasper County
GPS Coordinates (Not Mapped)
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Circumstances of Recovery
Scattered skeletal remains. Remains found approx 600 ft west of
County Road 1000 West and approx 1/4 mile south of Bunkum Road (
see map)
Details of Recovery
Inventory of Remains
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Condition of Remains
Not recognizable - Partial skeletal parts only
Physical Description
Hair Color
Brown
Head Hair Description
Hair is described with reddish-brown
Body Hair Description
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Facial Hair Description
--
Left Eye Color
--
Right Eye Color
--
Eye Description
--
Distinctive Physical Features
No Information Entered
Clothing and Accessories
Item
Description
Accessories Zippo lighter with the name ARLENE engraved on it
Near the Body
Clothing gray hooded sweatshirt, Levi brand jeans with brown
leather belt ( size 28 in) portions of gray/burgundy sock, Near
the Body
Footwear suede and vinyl athletic shoes, with crepe sole found
associated with the remains (11 1/2 inches long) On the Body
Investigating Agencies
Jasper County Sheriff's Department
(219) 866-7344
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Re: JASPER COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 18-35, partial skeletal remains
- 15 October 1983, victim of Larry E
By: Akoya Date: June 20, 2020, 1:56 pm
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3070UMIN - Unidentified Male
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Reconstruction of the victim; victim's lighter
Date of Discovery: October 15, 1983
Location of Discovery: Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana
Estimated Date of Death: 1982-1983
State of Remains: Skeletal
Cause of Death: Homicide
Physical Description
Estimated Age: 18-35 years old
Race: White
Sex: Male
Height: 5'6" to 5'8"
Weight: Unknown
Hair: Reddish-brown, shoulder length.
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Healed fracture of the distal
left femur.
Identifiers
Dentals: Available.
Fingerprints: Not available.
DNA: Available.
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Gray hooded sweatshirt, Levi brand jeans with brown
leather belt (size 28 in) portions of gray/burgundy sock, suede
and vinyl athletic shoes, with crepe sole found associated with
the remains (11 1/2 inches long).
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Zippo lighter with the name "Arlene"
engraved on it.
Circumstances of Discovery
The victim 's scattered remains were discovered in Jasper
County, Indiana on October 15, 1983.
Serial killer Larry Eyeler admitted to murdering the victim,
possibly picking him up in the Vincinnes, Indiana area. He was
possibly last seen alive in Vincinnes by US 41.
Two other victims of Eyeler remain unidentified, 999UMIN and
1384UMIN.
Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Jasper County Coroner
Agency Contact Person: Andrew Boersma
Agency Phone Number: 219-956-2220 or 219-863-3560
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 13-20814
NCIC Case Number: Unknown
NamUs Case Number: 11379
Information Source(s)
NamUs
Rensselaer Republican
Nixle
WTHI TV
Admin Notes
Added: 3/7/18; Last Updated: 3/7/18
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Re: JASPER COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 18-35, partial skeletal remains
- 15 October 1983, victim of Larry E
By: Akoya Date: June 20, 2020, 2:00 pm
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Rensselaer
Indiana 47978
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Re: JASPER COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 18-35, partial skeletal remains
- 15 October 1983, victim of Larry E
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Re: JASPER COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 18-35, partial skeletal remains
- 15 October 1983, victim of Larry E
By: Akoya Date: June 20, 2020, 2:04 pm
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Rensselaer, Indiana
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Re: JASPER COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 18-35, partial skeletal remains
- 15 October 1983, victim of Larry E
By: Akoya Date: June 20, 2020, 2:05 pm
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Scattered skeletal remains. Remains found approx 600 ft west of
County Road 1000 West and approx 1/4 mile south of Bunkum Road
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Bunkum Rd
Rensselaer,
Indiana
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Re: JASPER COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 18-35, partial skeletal remains
- 15 October 1983, victim of Larry E
By: Akoya Date: June 20, 2020, 2:06 pm
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Jasper County John Doe
Jasper County John Doe was an adult male whose skeletal remains
were discovered in Indiana in 1983. He's one of the three
unidentified victims of serial killer Larry Eyler. The most
probable date of his death was estimated on March 1982.
Characteristics
He had reddish-brown hair
He had previously broken his left femur
Clothing and accessories
Gray hooded sweatshirt
Levi brand jeans with a brown belt
Gray/ burgundy socks
Suede athletic shoes
Zippo lighter with the name "ARLENE" engraved on it
Jasper County John Doe
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Sex Male
Race White
Location Renssealer, Indiana
Found October 15, 1983
Unidentified for 36 years
Postmortem interval Months - Years
Body condition Skeletal
Age approximation 18-35
Height approximation 5'6 - 5'8
Weight approximation N/A
Cause of death Homicide
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Re: JASPER COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 18-35, partial skeletal remains
- 15 October 1983, victim of Larry E
By: Akoya Date: June 20, 2020, 2:08 pm
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Indiana coroners press to identify 3 young men slain by 1980s
Chicago serial killer
Steve Schmadeke, Tribune reporter
October 12, 2010
n a cool October day in 1983, Henry Hansen and his wife, Gladys,
returned to an Indiana farm where for years they'd had luck
finding mushrooms sprouting under the old oak trees.
But this time they found something else entirely — two skulls
lying together north of a dilapidated barn off U.S. Highway 41
just across the Illinois state line in Newton County, records
show.
Police soon found the remains of four young men — all with their
pants around their ankles, one with hands and head severed — and
eventually determined that the barn had been used as a torture
chamber by serial killer Larry Eyler.
Eyler, a Chicago house painter, confessed to 21 slayings before
dying in prison in 1994 of AIDS-related complications. He was on
death row in Illinois for the 1984 murder of Danny Bridges, a
15-year-old Uptown prostitute whose dismembered body was
discovered when a suspicious janitor cut open a trash bag
outside Eyler's Rogers Park apartment building.
Three decades later, at least four young men Eyler confessed to
slaying in Illinois and Indiana remain unidentified. Two Indiana
coroners working near the Illinois border hope to change that,
recently launching efforts to identify three of them using DNA.
The Cook County medical examiner's office, which the Tribune has
reported had one unidentified victim, did not respond to
requests for comment.
The Indiana coroners plan to submit the DNA samples to a
national criminal database and to missing-person databases and
also use the DNA to compare with samples from families who
believe the victims might be their missing loved ones.
Eyler was primarily a "rage killer" who murdered hitchhikers or
young men he picked up in bars after quarreling with his married
boyfriend, said Kathleen Zellner, the Oak Brook attorney who
handled his appellate case and then found herself, over hundreds
of hours, coaxing him to give details of all the murders. A
Hollywood film on the story is reportedly being developed.
Zellner met this year with the Jasper and Newton County
coroners, answering their questions for about four hours. "I was
impressed with these Indiana investigators, that they were
pursuing it," she said.
It hadn't always been that way.
In Newton County, the remains of two of Eyler's victims from the
farm property were placed inside battered bankers boxes and
apparently forgotten about for decades. Scott McCord, a
full-time paramedic, found the two boxes labeled "Victim A" and
"Victim B" after being elected county coroner two years ago and
made identifying them "my personal mission."
McCord began referring to the remains as "my kids" and named
them "Adam" and "Brad," hoping that by giving them an informal
identify, it would be tougher to forget about them. He sent
bones for analysis at a state lab and plans to send smaller
samples to a Texas lab for DNA testing. He plans to submit the
samples to the national database and also check them against
samples from a family who believes Victim B may be a relative.
"I want to get them home," McCord said. "They don't belong here.
They don't belong in my office. Somewhere out there is a mother
or a father or a sister or a brother. They have to be missing
these kids."
He doesn't have much to work with. The investigative reports
from the time number only a dozen or so pages, all the evidence
they refer to — the Hush Puppies boots with side buckle, the
red-and-white belt with the word "Devil" sown in — is missing,
and the original investigator is dead, McCord said.
What remains in the records paints a horrific picture of the
last moments of the four who were slain at the abandoned
farmhouse. Two of the victims were identified — Michael Bauer, a
23-year-old pizza deliverer last seen taking out the trash at
his parent's Portage Park home, and John Bartlett, 19, who was
staying with his sister in Chicago after being discharged from
the Army. A crime scene photo shows a green garden hose Eyler
used to bind his victims looped over what appears to be a rafter
inside the now-demolished barn where four men were stabbed to
death.
In his three-page handwritten confession to the murder of Victim
A, who Eyler described as "an unidentified black male in his
late teens or early 20s," Eyler lays out what was a typical
murderous pattern that began with a fight with his boyfriend.
Angry after the fight, Eyler drove to Terre Haute and
encountered a hitchhiker. He offered the man $75 to tie him up
and perform a sex act on him, then gave him vodka and a sedative
as they drove to the farm. Eyler tied up the man in the barn and
put a bandage over his eyes.
"I said, 'OK (expletive) make your peace with God,'" Eyler
wrote. "After waiting 4-5 minutes, I stabbed him repeatedly in
the stomach and chest. He slumped forward, and I knew he was
dead."
In a strange addendum, Eyler writes that "when I made a grave
for this individual I separated him from the other three bodies
because I did not think it was proper to bury this person next
to the three Caucasian men."
"Not only was he a psycho killer, but he was a racist as well,"
McCord said.
Three days before mushroom hunters found the four bodies in
1983, a farmer found human remains in a field in neighboring
Jasper County, the partial skeleton of a man Eyler later
confessed to slaying. County Coroner Andrew Boersma has spent
the last four years trying to identify the man, who is thought
to have been in his early 20s with a slight build and
reddish-brown, shoulder-length hair.
He was wearing jeans and a gray hooded jacket, Boersma said, and
investigators found a Zippo cigarette lighter with a female name
written on it. Boersma is not releasing the name, hoping that
family members will be able to identify it.
"I believe this young man needs to find his family and his
remains be returned," said Boersma, who also operates a funeral
home. "We set out on this adventure to try and gather all the
information we can."
Boersma has also struggled with finding records. "That's the way
it was back then," he said. "It was the good old fellas —
everybody knew everybody. Now we have to take better records. I
know I spent days fishing through microfilm looking for (old
records,) and I was glad for what little I've got."
DNA evidence has been gathered on the man's remains. Boersma,
after several false hits, is somewhat hopeful that DNA supplied
by a family will yield a match. He is now waiting for tests to
be completed. And unlike in Newton County, where the remains now
rest in two taped-shut-and-sealed blue plastic containers, most
of the unidentified man's remains are buried at McKeever
Cemetery, where a cemetery plot was donated.
Paul David Ricker, the officer who took the call of human
remains being found, raised money with some other police
officers to buy a cemetery headstone, Boersma said. It is
inscribed with the date the bones were found — Oct. 15, 1983.
There is no name, just "John Doe," he said.
sschmadeke@tribune.com
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Re: JASPER COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 18-35, partial skeletal remains
- 15 October 1983, victim of Larry E
By: Akoya Date: June 20, 2020, 2:10 pm
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Indiana serial killer’s victims still unknown long after his
death
By G.W. Schulz / September 29, 2015
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This story is part of an ongoing series, Left for Dead: Inside
America’s Coldest Cases.
At first, Scott McCord thought the boxes contained trash and
nearly tossed them out.
It was 2008 and McCord, a paramedic for more than 25 years, had
just been elected coroner of northwestern Indiana’s Newton
County, current population 14,156. The outgoing coroner had
carried the two old bankers boxes to McCord’s new office. When
McCord lifted the tops to look inside, he found human bones and
a slip of paper with an Indiana State Police case number.
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McCord called the state police District 13 station one county
north, in Lowell, to find out more about the case. As McCord
tells it, a higher-up called back to say the case was closed and
the bones had all been returned to the families.
But the higher-up was wrong.
The bones in the boxes belonged to two young murder victims of
serial killer Larry Eyler. They had never been identified.
McCord later learned more: Two other Eyler victims also remained
unnamed in the Indiana counties of Jasper and Hendricks.
“I’m like, ‘How can this be? How can it be that nobody knows
these kids, nobody claimed these kids?’ ” McCord said.
While Eyler is largely forgotten today, his trial was highly
publicized at the time. Convicted in 1986 for the murder of a
15-year-old boy, he eventually died on death row in 1994 of
AIDS-related complications.
Based on Eyler’s own confessions, authorities today believe he
killed at least 22 people. As many as six victims, two of whom
are believed to be from Illinois, remain unidentified today.
“Larry didn’t know the names. He knew the cases, but he didn’t
know the names,” said Dan Colin, who served as an investigator
on an Eyler task force for the sheriff’s office in Lake County,
Ill. “They were street kids or hitchhikers that he picked up.”
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Investigators work at an abandoned barn in Lake Village,
Indiana, where two of Larry Eyler’s unidentified victims were
found in 1983.
CREDIT: COURTESY OF THE NEWTON COUNTY CORONER’S OFFICE
The unknown boys and young men Eyler killed are part of a bleak
national list of people found deceased without an identity.
More than 10,000 bodies remain unidentified in the United
States, and the FBI estimates some 80,000 people populate the
ranks of the reported missing. Details about them are contained
in a growing but voluntary database called the National Missing
and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, housed at the Center
for Human Identification in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Eyler cases eventually drifted from public attention until
McCord became Newton County’s coroner seven years ago.
Identifying Eyler’s victims since has become McCord’s life
mission, and he has enlisted everyone imaginable for help. His
personal dentist performed X-rays and charting on the remains at
no charge. An artist in San Antonio sketched renderings of what
their faces might have looked like. A University of Indianapolis
professor conducted a complete anthropological study of the
bones. The cases also were uploaded to NamUs.
“Every time I go to our state coroners’ conference, I’m pushing
the other coroners to get their cases into (NamUs),” McCord
said. “The major complaint that I get is, ‘We just don’t have
time.’ I have even offered some of the smaller counties that …
‘I’ll come do it for you.’ ”
Of the 43 cases entered into NamUs from Indiana, 18 were labeled
homicides as of June. Officials have not determined the manner
of death or it is not listed for another 21 cases, according to
an analysis of NamUs data obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act.
The Indiana State Police assigned an investigator to work with
McCord in 2008 after he contacted them about the bones in the
boxes, said spokesman Capt. Dave Bursten. That detective still
is working with McCord today. Bone samples, taken for DNA
testing, also were sent to a laboratory that works with NamUs at
the University of North Texas, Bursten said, and to the FBI’s
Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS. In 2013, state police
issued a news release asking the public for help.
Cold cases are more than just pop culture novelty. They could
mean a perpetrator is free to strike again, said Michael Murphy,
the coroner in Las Vegas for 13 years until recently joining the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to run its
unknown victims unit.
“There’s always a balancing act that you’re going to do between
handling the cases that are immediate today and the cases from
the past,” he said. “Every one of those cases is important, and
every one of those cases deserves our attention.”
Among the unidentified homicide victims in Indiana not believed
to be connected to Eyler are a woman in her late teens or early
20s found by deer hunters in the remote woods of Wayne County in
1982 and another woman believed to be around the same age
discovered in 2007 burned and charred in the north section of
Gary.
Indiana law doesn’t explicitly require that certain steps be
taken to ensure identification, but McCord said coroners are
urged during state-led training to exhaust all possible avenues.
Police first came in contact with Eyler on Aug. 3, 1978, when
one of his victims, terrified and naked, turned up on the
doorstep of a Terre Haute home begging for help, clutching a
knife wound in his chest.
Authorities later would learn that the man had hitchhiked across
town, but the driver had pulled off the road, bound his hands
and ankles and sexually assaulted him before stabbing him.
Eyler, without explanation, turned himself in to police at the
scene. Inside his truck were objects including knives, handcuffs
and tear gas.
Before the man could testify against Eyler, however, he was
offered a $2,500 check by Eyler and his attorney to forget about
the whole thing. The man accepted and walked away.
Astonishingly, Eyler walked away, too.
“His urges got to him. He wasn’t realizing what he was doing. He
was fantasizing,” said Gera-Lind Kolarik, a former Chicago-area
TV reporter who published a detailed account of the Eyler
murders in a 1990 book, “Freed to Kill.” “He learned on that
case not to let them be alive anymore, because then they can’t
come back. He learned to kill them.”
Five years passed before police – under pressure from local
media and the families of victims – determined that a growing
number of bodies found in the area were connected to one another
by the types of wounds they bore and how they were dumped.
Investigators from several communities formed a task force in
spring 1983.
The carefully laid out bodies of four males were found that fall
in Lake Village, Indiana, near an abandoned barn just west of
U.S. Highway 41, which stretches south from Chicago through
Indiana and into western Kentucky. Authorities succeeded in
identifying two of the victims at the time. The two others never
were identified and wound up in the boxes McCord got in 2008.
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An artist’s sketch shows an unidentified victim of serial killer
Larry Eyler, nicknamed “Brad” by Newton County Coroner Scott
McCord. He was found with three others in Lake Village, Indiana,
in 1983.
CREDIT: BETSY COOPER FOR THE NEWTON COUNTY CORONER’S OFFICE
McCord calls them “my kids.” He named each of them: “Adam” is
black and believed to be between the ages of 15 and 20. He was
found in Levi’s blue jeans, boots and a red-and-white belt with
a gold buckle. “Brad,” who is white, is estimated to be about
the same age and was found in button-pocket brown slacks. He had
a homemade cross tattoo on his right forearm with two dots above
the horizontal line. Both bodies were heavily decomposed when
they were discovered.
Eyler emerged as a suspect soon after the task force got
underway. But procedural bungling by the Indiana State Police
enabled him to walk away from charges a second time after
critical evidence obtained through a warrantless search had to
be thrown out in court. The evidence included blood-stained
boots that connected Eyler to the body of a young man found
stabbed repeatedly in Illinois.
Back on the streets, Eyler killed again before he was stopped
for the last time. On the morning of Aug. 21, 1984, a janitor in
Chicago found the dismembered remains of 15-year-old Danny
Bridges divided between two trash bags and stuffed into a
dumpster behind an apartment building where Eyler was staying.
Evidence found in Eyler’s apartment led to his arrest.
A receipt for hacksaw blades, blood underneath the threshold of
a doorway, material plunged from the kitchen sink – “like pieces
of chicken fat,” as a lover of Eyler’s, John Dobrovolskis, later
testified – and other evidence turned up in the apartment, even
though Eyler had mopped the floors and repainted the walls.
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An artist’s sketch shows an unidentified victim of serial killer
Larry Eyler, nicknamed “Adam” by Newton County Coroner Scott
McCord. He was found with three others in Lake Village, Indiana,
in 1983.
CREDIT: BETSY COOPER FOR THE NEWTON COUNTY CORONER’S OFFICE
In later confession letters, Eyler described handcuffing,
blindfolding and stabbing the two McCord calls Adam and Brad. He
also insisted that an accomplice had helped him kill one of the
two unidentified victims found near the barn. But authorities
failed in an attempt to prosecute the alleged accomplice,
Indiana State University professor Robert David Little, with
whom Eyler frequently stayed.
After Kolarik’s “Freed to Kill” renewed interest in the Eyler
murders, prosecutors decided to charge Little with joining Eyler
in the 1982 stabbing death of Steven Agan, a 23-year-old car
wash employee. A jury unanimously acquitted Little in 1991,
following a trial hobbled from the beginning because the star
witness for the prosecution against Little was Eyler himself.
Until there’s a new break in the case, four of Eyler’s Indiana
victims – including Adam and Brad – await being reunited with
their families.
Although he hasn’t yet solved the bankers box mystery, McCord
maintains that getting all Jane and John Doe cases out of dusty
filing cabinets and into electronic databases is a critical step
– for all of the unidentified.
“There has to be a mother, a father, a brother, a sister –
somebody out there looking for these kids,” he said. “These kids
have families. I know if it was my kid, I would go to the end of
the earth trying to find them.”
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