I-65 killer ‘caught’: Days Inn serial murderer named as Harry Edward Greenwell 35 years after 3 killed in highway motels

THE I-65 KILLER has reportedly been identified after more than 30 years since killing three women in highway motels.

Indiana State Police and FBI officials have identified Harry Edward Greenwell as the alleged killer.

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Officials have identified the I-65 killer as Harry Edward Greenwell[/caption]

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Jeanne Gilbert was assaulted and shot three times on March 3, 1989[/caption]

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Vicki Heath was brutally murdered on February 21, 1987[/caption]

The I-65 Killer, also known as the Days Inn Killer, is accused of raping and killing at least three women at motels along the highway’s corridor in Indiana and Kentucky during the late ’80s.

According to ISP, Sgt. Glen Fifield DNA results used to identify Greenwell were “99.999% positive.”

Greenwell, however, died of cancer in 2013, officials said.

As of today, the killer’s known victims are Jeanne Gilbert, 34, Mary “Peggy” Gill, 21, and Vicki Heath, 41.

HORRIFIC MURDERS

Heath, a night clerk at the Super 8 Motel in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, was reported missing on February 21, 1987

Investigators at the time said the motel lobby showed signs of a fight, with a telephone being uprooted from the wall.

The police later found her body behind a trash bin near the motel.

Investigators determined had been sexually assaulted and shot twice in the head with a .38 caliber handgun.

On March 3, 1989, two murders were reported along the I-65 corridor.

Gill, a night auditor at the Merrillville, Indiana Days Inn, had been sexually assaulted and shot twice in the head, and her body was dumped near the parking lot.

Hours later, Gilbert, a part-time auditor at the Remington, Indiana Days Inn, was assaulted and shot three times as well.

A passing motorist found her body near the roadway in the early morning.

Both women were shot with the same .22 caliber handgun.

In January 1990, a hotel clerk at the Columbus, Indiana Days Inn was attacked.

The victim, who survived the attack, was working the night shift when she was sexually assaulted and stabbed by a man, describing him as a bearded man with a lazy right eye.

A year later, another woman was assaulted in Rochester, Minnesota.

She survived and gave a similar description of the assailant.

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Mary ‘Peggy’ Gill, 21, was killed on the same day as Gilbert[/caption]