Indianapolis (AP) – On Tuesday, Indiana State Police identified a dead man as a suspect in the rape and murder of three women in Indiana and Kentucky in the late 1980s while working at night as a female motel worker.
Indiana State Police Officer Glenn Field said laboratory testing of crime scene samples positively confirmed Edward Grinwell, who died in January 2013 as an “I-65 killer.” Because of attacks on motels near Interstate 65.
“The bird has a long criminal history and has entered and exited prison several times, even escaping from prison in two separate cases,” Fifield said. “He’s known for frequent travel to the Midwest.”
Grinwell was born in Kentucky and died in Iowa, while his obituary identifies cancer as the cause of death.
Fifield said the evidence linked the bird to the Feb. 21, 1987 murder of Vicki Heath, who worked overnight at the Super Eight Hotel in Elizabeth Town, Kentucky, and to the March 3, 1989 murder of Mary Peggy Gil. Jana Gilbert.
Gilbert was killed while working nights at the Days Inn in Remington, Indiana, and Gill was killed while working at the Days Inn in Maryville, Indiana, and the investigation is also known as the Days Inn Killer case.
Field said investigators also linked the bird to an attack on Jan. 2, 1990 on a female employee at the Days Inn in Columbus, Indiana, and that it was “attacked like three previous victims.”
“This victim was able to escape and rescue his attacker. “He later provided a good physical description of the suspect and the details of the crime,” he said. “He is the only known victim who survived this brutal and brutal attack by this murderer.”
Fifield said the Indiana State Police Criminal Laboratory matched ballistic evidence to the murders of Gilly and Gilbert, while the Forensic Laboratory later compared the DNA evidence linking the murders of Heath and Gilbert to the Columbus case. , Indiana.
He said one of the major factors linking the four crime areas is their proximity to Interstate 65, which runs from Gary, Indiana, to Mobile, Alabama.
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History and Summary Updated to correct the spelling of Sgt. Glenn Field.
Source: Huffpost
