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The story of the I-65 killer also known as the Days in Murders began on the morning of February

21st, 1987, in the small town of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. That morning, guests were attempting

to check out of a super 8 motel at around 6 o'clock in the morning when they discovered

the lobby empty, having been left in a state of chaos and disarray. Police were called

to the scene, and the body of the motel's knight auditor, Vicki Heath, was eventually

located outside near the motel's dumpster. She had been raped and then shot to death by

a 38 caliber handgun. Footprints led from the location of Vicki's body to a parking

lot nearby, leading investigators to believe that a trucker had been responsible for the

crime. This offender had left DNA at the scene, but because of the primitive state of forensic

analysis at the time, the case would go unsolved for the foreseeable future. Approximately

two years later, two nearly identical cases unfolded on the same night.

Mary Peggy Gill worked at a days in in Merrillville, Indiana, and was murdered in the early morning

hours of May 3rd, 1989. The crime was believed to have occurred between 1.30 and 2am, between

the checking in of two guests at the hotel. Peggy failed to make a necessary check-in

with her manager later that morning, so the police were called, and they quickly discovered

money missing from the hotel's cash register which had been pride-open. A quick scan of

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