Police identify the "I-65 killer" suspected of raping and murdering 3 motel clerks in the 1980s
CBSN
Indiana State Police identified a now-deceased man on Tuesday as the suspect who raped and killed three women in Indiana and Kentucky in the late 1980s as they were working night shifts as motel clerks. The police and FBI said a DNA match — as well as a description from a woman who apparently escaped the suspect in 1990 — helped them identify the serial killer.
Sgt. Glen Fifield of Indiana State Police said a laboratory analysis of crime scene samples positively identified Harry Edward Greenwell, who died in January 2013, as "the I-65 killer" — so-named because the attacks occurred at motels near Interstate 65.
"Greenwell had an extensive criminal history and had been in and out of prison several times, even escaping from jail on two separate occasions," Fifield said. "He was known to travel frequently in the Midwest."
