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Larry Eyler was a disorganized killer. He often found his victims by driving around certain areas of a towns. Eyler was sexually confused,he would have sex where he could find it, forcefully, and then eliminate the evidence his abiding shame of.
March 22, 1982 - Jay Reynolds
October 3, 1992 - Delvoyd Baker, 14, strangled
October 23, 1992 - Steven Crockett, 19, stabbed
November 6, 1982 - Robert Foley, dumped outside
December 25, 1982 - John Johnson, 25, left in a field
December 28, 1982, John Roach, 21, and Steven Agan,20, found still tied
August 31, 1983 - No.13 goes down, Ralph Calise
October 4, 1983 - Derrick Hansen, 14, left dismembered
October 15, 1983- 'John Doe' discovered
October 18, 1983- 4 bodies found, One was decapitated.
December 5, 1983 - 'John Doe' found again
December 7, 1983 - Richard Wayne and another 'John Doe' found dead
Eyler was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, on December 21, 1952, Eyler was the youngest of four children born to parents who divorced while he was young. He was beaten and psychologically abused by many of his Step-fathers throughout his childhood. Dropping out of high school in his senior year, he worked odd jobs for a couple of years before earning his GED. He also attended college in 1974 but left without a degree. He then decides to move to Chicago.
1. Aura-Larry Eyler was a young man at war within himself, struggling to cope with homosexual tendencies which simultaneously fascinated and repelled him.
2. Trolling-. In his early 30′s Eyler started picking up men under the guise of consensual sex, with a bit of bondage thrown in.
3.Wooing- He got the victims to a secluded area.
4.Capture- Eyler would handcuff his victim and then brutally beat them.
5.Murder- Eyler would strangle his victims and then rape would take place on his victims
6.Totem- He often took pictures while killing his victims and kept them safe in his house.
7.Depression-Eyler's fantasy was never completed, he got caught by the police and was sent to prison.
Larry Eyler killed across the American Midwest, targeting young male prostitutes, gays, and hitchhikers, hacking them to death and discarding their mutilated bodies in rural areas, and off of highways. Eyler chose to kill by strangulation, stabbing and then would kill his victims. The bodies were usually put into black bags or buried in clusters with weird ritual trappings. Eyler would drive his Ford pickup truck in an area frequented by gays. There was a style and pattern to their killings which involved domination, control, humiliation and sadistic sexual violence. Eyler displayed a total lack of remorse. The victims were chosen at random and the murders carried out in almost an obsessive manner. Photographs of the victims played a significant part in their rituals as well as their ability to recall their sadistic acts.
March 10, 1994 The Hideous Legacy Of Larry Eyler by The Chicago trubune
kAnd to the families, Eyler's word was sufficient to at last close the book. There was comfort, too, in that Eyler-though he escaped execution-was now himself dead, succumbing to AIDS-related complications Sunday at Pontiac Correctional Center.
Indianapolis Police Lt. Steven Garner spoke for them all: "It's not for the police; it's for the families. When your son, your brother, has been dead for years, you want some sort of finality to it: `Just tell me the truth, no matter how grotesque it is.' All of these families can now put their children to rest."
Police and prosecutors, however, are challenged anew-obligated to attempt their own closure from the clues and details left behind by Eyler.
Seven victims, for example, remain unidentified.
There also is Eyler's claim that in four of the murders he had an accomplice-a disturbing assertion that must be pursued urgently. Indeed, a companion was acquitted of an Indiana murder in 1991.
And there is the irony that Eyler insisted that someone else, not he, committed the one murder for which he was sentenced to die-the 1984 slaying of 15-year-old Daniel Bridges of Uptown. It is not sufficient for the office of Cook County State's Atty. Jack O'Malley to summarily dismiss this possibility.
The victims and families may rest. Justice cannot.
The agony of losing a loved one to gruesome, calculated murder is hideous in itself, unimaginable to those who have not experienced it. It is so much worse when it is shrouded in mystery, when the survivors do not know with certainty who did it, how, where, when and why-and that someone, somehow has been held to account for it.
Knowing the facts does not diminish the loss or erase the pain, but it does instill a sense of order and closure to the horror, and permits healing to begin.
So it was on Tuesday that an odd kind of relief settled on several families in Illinois and Indiana, more than a decade after they had lost sons and brothers to horrible mutilation-murder.
In death, the despicable acts of Larry Eyler were countered by one redeeming gesture-the confession through his court-appointed attorney that he had killed 21 boys and young men in the two states in the early 1980s, picking them up at random in gay bars or while they were hitchhiking and luring them to their deaths in a spree of rage.
It is important to note that Eyler's saying he was the murderer does not necessarily make it so. Nevertheless, the revelations were not a surprise to authorities in Illinois and Indiana, who-once they had gotten on Eyler's trail-had reason to suspect that he was a serial killer in the gruesome mold of a John Wayne Gacy or Jeffrey Dahmer.
By Bilal Ashiq
4/29/15
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October 1986- Eyler is sentenced to Die by lethal injection.
December 21, 1954- Larry Eyler was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
March 6, 1994- Stricken with AIDS-related complications, Eyler died that day in the infirmary at Pontiac Correctional Center.
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1978- Eyler was arrested for the first in 1978 after stabbing a 14 year old male. He would go on to commit 21 murders.
1990- Eyler made the news again when he offered information on 20 murders if his sentence was changed to life in prison. The state refused and he was still awaiting death