'I-65 Killer' caught: Indiana State Police say Harry Edward Greenwell, who died in 2013, is behind the killings of 3 women in the late 1980s.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana State Police said Tuesday that they used genealogical data and crime scene evidence to link an Iowa man who died in 2013 to the killings of three female motel clerks and sexual assault of a fourth in Indiana and Kentucky from 1987 through 1990.
Fifield said evidence linked Greenwell to the Feb. 21, 1987, killing of Vicki Heath, 41, who was sexually assaulted and fatally shot while working a night shift at a Super 8 Hotel in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. It also linked him to the March 3, 1989, killings of Margaret"Peggy" Gill and Jeanne Gilbert.
Fifield said the state police crime lab matched ballistic evidence in the Gill and Gilbert slayings, and the crime lab later matched DNA evidence linking the Heath and Gilbert killings to the Columbus, Indiana, case.He said one of the primary factors linking the four crimes scenes was their proximity to Interstate 65, which runs from Gary, Indiana, to Mobile, Alabama.
He said investigators continue reaching out to other police departments in the Midwest because there is a"distinct possibility" that Greenwell committed other unsolved killings, rapes, robberies or assaults.
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