Sheley next struck in Galesburg, where on June 28, 2008, he killed 65-year-old Ronald Randall at a car wash, hiding the body behind a grocery store. Police have said he was looking for money to buy drugs when he killed Reed and left his body in the trunk of a car. This spree killer's rampage began on June 23, 2008, when he attacked 93-year-old Russell Reed in the Rock River community of Sterling. He managed to escape from jail but was recaptured a few hours later. The FBI got involved and Stewart was arrested several weeks later. Later, at a Radio Shack store in Beloit, Richard Boeck, 21, and Donald Rains, 26, were killed, the Tribune reported. The next day, the Tribune reported, police found the bodies of Kevin Kaiser, 18, and Kenny Foust, 35, at two different gas stations. According to the Chicago Tribune, the killings began at the Tiny Fredd's Grocery store in Rockford, where police discovered the bodies of owner Willie Fredd, 54, and clerk Albert Pearson, 20, each shot several times in the head. He was executed in 1996, 15 years after the early 1981 murder spree. Stewart went on a one-week killing spree that left four people dead in Rockford and two others just over the state line in Beloit, Wisconsin. The other four he burned, scattering their ashes at various locations.
Bright dumped four of the bodies along roads in rural Peoria and Tazewell counties. He strangled seven women and gave enough cocaine to an eighth to cause her death. The former concrete worker was linked to the deaths of eight women in the Peoria area over a 15-month period in 2003 and 2004, according to Journal Star archives. Five sets of remains remain unidentified.īuilding a criminal case: How Peoria police used phone records and video to link suspect to death of J'Naysia Hobbs Larry Bright To this day, authorities still are working to identify victims, with one man's remains identified in October.
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Gacy strangled most of his victims with a noose and stabbed others, often during or after having sex with them, according to the evidence produced in his six-week trial that ended in March 1980. He built a reputation as a successful small construction company owner, a friend of local politicians and as Pogo the Clown, entertaining children at neighborhood parties and hospitals. Several were dumped in the Des Plaines River. He admitted his crimes before his execution. Most of Gacy's victims were buried in a crawl space under his home or elsewhere on the property, according to a history compiled by The Associated Press.
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