The I-65 Killer (Part One: The Days Inn Murders)

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 26 January 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On March 3rd, 1989, two women were found to have been murdered 50 miles away from one another.

24-year-old Peggy Gill & 34-year-old Jeanne Gilbert were each living separate lives in Merrillville and Rensselaer, Indiana (respectively), and neither seemed to have an inkling of the other's existence. Their only link seemed to be their employment with the Days Inn hotel brand, with each women working as a night auditor for their local branch.

However, in the early morning hours of March 3rd, 1989, the stories of these two women would become forever intertwined. As two separate murder investigation began to unfold that weekend, connections would eventually reveal that a single individual had committed both crimes within a few hours...

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Special thanks to Damion Moore (American Crime Journal) for sharing his extensive research in this case with me; if you want to learn more, please check out his website at https://mytruecrime.com

Episode hosted, produced, and additional research/writing by Micheal Whelan

Original music created by Micheal Whelan through Amper Music

Theme music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

Producers: Maggyjames, Ben Krokum, Roberta Janson, Quil Carter, Peggy Belarde, Laura Hannan, Katherine Vatalaro, Damion Moore (who also researched this episode), Astrid Kneier, Amy Hampton, Emily McMehen, Scott Meesey, Steven Wilson, Scott Patzold, Marie Vanglund, Lori Rodriguez, Jessica Yount, I-may McGregor, Danny Williams, Sue Kirk, Sara Moscaritolo, Thomas Ahearn, Victoria Reid, Marion Welsh, Seth Morgan, Alyssa Lawton, Kelly Jo Hapgood, Patrick Ari Ekeheien Laakso, Sydney Scotton, Meadow Landry, and Rebecca Miller

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0:00.0	This episode contains graphic content.
0:03.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:10.1	In February of 1987, Vicki Heath was a 41-year-old divorcee that had just recently moved to Radcliffe
0:17.6	Kintucky, about 45 miles south of Louisville, a mother of two adult children.
0:23.5	Vicki had been attempting to rebuild her life in the month prior to the move, and had
0:27.8	finally taken the plunge at the behest of her new fiance, a fiance that encouraged her
0:32.8	to start the next chapter of her life.
0:35.1	Her second act, in a new town, prior to the move, Vicki had spent the better part of
0:40.4	her life in her hometown of Hardensburg, Kintucky, where she had raised her two children,
0:45.1	a son and a daughter, who had already moved out and on with their adult lives.
0:50.6	To help ease the burden on her hardworking fiancee and provide a second income for their
0:55.5	new home, Vicki decided to take a job at the time of her life.
0:57.9	This job at a nearby Super 8 motel in neighboring Elizabeth town.
1:02.2	This was and is a small town that serves as the county seat for Kintucky's Harden County,
1:07.8	and is perhaps most well known as the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
1:11.6	Here at the Super 8, Vicki would end up working as a night auditor, where she would monitor
1:16.6	the Super 8 for the hotel's managers and work the front desk overnight.
1:21.0	While this may sound a bit intimidating, for Vicki, it was a good opportunity to get
1:25.8	paid for reading romance novels, which she was also known to do in her off hours.
1:31.2	The Elizabeth town's Super 8 was just one of two small motels in the northeastern corner
1:35.9	of the town, alongside a days in, which was located just down the street.
1:40.7	The two were separated by a large empty parking lot, where truck drivers could pull in
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