{"id":1423948,"date":"2022-04-07T13:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423948"},"modified":"2022-04-07T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:29:45","slug":"serial-killer-known-as-the-i-65-killer-identified-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/serial-killer-known-as-the-i-65-killer-identified-after-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Serial Killer Known As The \u2018I-65 Killer\u2019 Identified After 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fserial-killer-known-as-the-i-65-killer-identified-after-30-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423948&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-136503301.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In 1987, 41-year-old Vicki Heath was working at the Super 8 Motel just off I-65 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in order to make some extra money. She had recently gotten engaged, and was looking forward to this new chapter in her life as her two kids were reaching adulthood. That all tragically ended on February 21, 1987, when police received a call about a \u201ccomplete mess\u201d in the lobby of the motel. The caller worried that the front desk clerk was missing. Police arrived and found Heath\u2019s body behind a nearby dumpster.<\/p>\n<p>Two more women \u2013 Margaret \u201cPeggy\u201d Gill\u00a0and Jeanne Gilbert \u2013 were killed two years later, each while working at different Days Inn motels in Indiana. A final woman, referred to only as Jane Doe, was sexually assaulted at the Columbus, Indiana, Days Inn in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 years went by without police being able to charge a suspect, whom they referred to as either the \u201cDays Inn Killer\u201d or the \u201cI-65 Killer,\u201d since the motels were off the highway.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, however, Indiana State Police (ISP) <a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/INPOLICE\/bulletins\/3121b87\">announced<\/a> that they had finally identified the serial killer as Harry Edward Greenwell, who died in 2013 at the age of 68. He had been living in New Albin, Iowa and had an \u201cextensive criminal history ranging from 1963 to 1998,\u201d the ISP announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2019, the Indiana State Police requested the assistance of the FBI\u2019s Gang Response Investigative Team (GRIT). Since these crimes were committed, many investigative and scientific techniques have either improved or been created through new advances in technology. One of these methods is Investigative Genealogy and combines the use of DNA analysis with traditional genealogy research and historical records to generate investigative leads for unsolved violent crimes,\u201d the ISP explained. \u201cThis technique involves uploading a crime scene DNA profile to one or more genetic genealogy databases in an attempt to identify a criminal offender\u2019s genetic relatives and locate the offender within their family tree. Utilizing this process, a match was made to Greenwell with a close family member. Through this match it was determined that the probability of Greenwell being the person responsible for the attacks was more than 99 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FBI Indianapolis Special Agent in Charge Herbert J. Stapleton said in the press release that \u201cThese cases did not go unsolved all these years because of a lack of investigative inactivity \u2013 investigators continuously tracked leads across the country and did everything they could to identify the person responsible for these crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, through technological advances and strong, collaborative partnerships we were able to identify this person and, hopefully, start to bring closure and healing to the families of Vicki, Peggy and Jeanne; as well as the surviving victim,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Kimberly Wright, Jeanne Gilbert\u2019s daughter, said in the same press release: \u201cOur family is extremely grateful to all of the agencies, along with agency partnerships, who have committed to keeping these unsolved cases at the forefront for more than 33 years, and who have worked tirelessly to bring these cases to resolution for all who have suffered from these crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">Become a member now and join our mission.<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1987, 41-year-old Vicki Heath was working at the Super 8 Motel just off I-65 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in order to make some extra money. 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