Harry Edward Greenwell, the man identified as the killer, passed away in January 2013 in Iowa when he was 68 years old.
have pinpointed the identity of the"I-65 Killer," who evaded identification and capture by authorities for more than 30 years.
Investigative genealogy, one technique that has emerged since the string of decades-old murders, helped generate an important lead in the case, authorities said during the news conference. The Indiana State Police testing lab was then able to identify Greenwell as a 99.9999 percent positive match. On March 3, 1989, police began investigating two more murders that took place separately on the same day, but had"similar circumstances," Fifield said.
On January 2, 1990, a clerk working at another Days Inn in Columbus, Indiana, faced a similar attack as the first three victims but was able to escape and gave authorities a description of her attacker.
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