Show Notes Episode 233: He’s On A Highway to Hell Spooktacular 2019 Part 2

This week Host Dave Bledsoe hits the road, meaning he tripped staggering home from the bar. ( Again.) On the show this week we wrap up Spooktacular 2019 with the chilling tale of The Highway Killer, Larry Eyler who killed at least twenty one young men across the Midwest in the early 1980’s. Trust us when we say, this is WAY scarier than any ghost stories we could tell you. (If for no other reason that the fashion, WHY DID WE DRESS LIKE THAT?!)

Along the way we introduce you to a cast of victims and villains who made Larry the twisted individual he became, featuring alcoholic abusive fathers, absentee mothers and you guessed it: The Catholic Church! (Homosexual serial murderer? You bet they were there!) We tell about the crimes, the manhunt (the police investigation not Larry on the prowl for victims) and the inevitable screw ups by the investigators that let Larry Eyler kill so many! (Can you say “Less Dead”?) Then we chart not one, not two but THREE trials related to the Highway Killer case. We aren’t a True Crime Podcast, but we did stay at Holiday Inn Express off an Indiana highway one night, so we think that should count.

Our Sponsor this week is Morty the Monster Hunter, we ain’t afraid of no cryptid. We open the show with America’s latest Super Killer Star and close with Jazzkantine taking on the road with Larry!

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Citations Needed:
Hoo boy, were there citations

Murderpedia Larry Eyler
https://murderpedia.org/male.E/e/eyler-larry.htm

Wikipedia Larry Eyler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Eyler

Suspected serial slayer had two personalities
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/08/26/Suspected-serial-slayer-had-two-personalities/3346462340800/

KILLER CONFESSED TO 21 MORE DEATHS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/03/09/killer-confessed-to-21-more-deaths/bc0c1a88-9b0d-4ebd-84e7-4a025a78e192/

Further Reading:

The Return of Larry Eyler
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-return-of-larry-eyler/Content?oid=880169

LARRY EYLER – THE HIGHWAY MURDERER – FIGHTING A WAR WITH HIMSELF

Larry Eyler – The Highway Murderer – Fighting A War With Himself

LARRY EYLER – THE HIGHWAY MURDERER – FIGHTING A WAR WITH HIMSELF

Larry Eyler Was Caught During His Murder Spree — Then Released And Killed Dozens Of Young Men

EYLER’S ATTORNEY BECAME PRISONER OF HIS CONFESSIONS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-03-21-9403210106-story.html

And MUCH MUCH MORE!

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