DOE ID; 'Jasper County Doe' William Joseph 'Bill' Lewis
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🗓️ 10 July 2023
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Summary
On October 15, 1983, a trapper on a private tract of land outside of Rensselaer in Jasper County Indiana found the unidentified remains of a young man. An investigation revealed that the man had been the victim of a homicide. He was dubbed 'Jasper County Doe'.
Based on similar murders of other young men in the area around the same time, police believed that Jasper County Doe was just one more victim in a string of murders committed by a serial killer that was dubbed 'The Highway Killer'. Many of his victims were young men who were found partially undressed. Police theorized that killer was targeting young gay men.
Eventually, the authorities came to believe that the killer was a serial killer named Larry Eyler.
He was responsible for the abductions and murders of several young men in the Midwest.
While Eyler was convicted and sent to prison in relation to his crimes, police still didn't know the identity of Jasper County Doe.
Eventually. DNA & genealogy gave Jasper County Doe his name back. He was William Joseph 'Bill' Lewis, and this is his story.
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| 0:45.3 | I'm On Saturday, October 15, 1983, a trapper checking his fox traps in a fallow farm field in rural Jasper County, Indiana, stumbled on a partial skull. |
| 1:18.5 | He turned it over and wondered whether it was a monkey skull. |
| 1:21.8 | He called the Jasper County Sheriff's Office around 9 a.m. |
| 1:25.5 | Sheriff's deputies and Detective Paul Ricker, as well as members of the Indiana |
| 1:29.2 | State Police, arrived at the field, located off County Road 100 west, a quarter mile south of Buncombe Road, |
| 1:36.6 | about 1.5 miles west of Rensselaer. Detective Ricker later said, quote, I was the first one to go to the |
| 1:43.5 | field. |
| 1:48.3 | Five feet from where the trapper had found the larger portion of the skull, |
| 1:51.3 | Ricker found the rest of the jawbone with fillings. |
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