THE HIGHWAY KILLER: Larry Eyler, Interstate Murders & Names Still Recovered

In August 1984, Larry Eyler’s arrest for the brutal murder of fifteen-year-old Danny Bridges finally halted a four-year killing spree that left at least twenty-one young men dead along the highways of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. This episode traces Eyler’s troubled childhood, his repeated brushes with the law, the jurisdictional failures that let him remain free, and the slow, ongoing process of identifying his victims decades later.