Maurice Allen Taylor, 22, was found dead in Weasel Creek in a rural part of Hamilton County, just outside Atlanta, Indiana, in the summer of 1982. His death, occurring around July 21, 1982, was not immediately ruled a homicide; the coroner suspected strangulation. Taylor remained unidentified for about eight months because his mother was institutionalized and could not file a missing person report.

Investigators have long considered Taylor’s death part of a series of unsolved killings attributed to an unidentified offender dubbed the I-70 Strangler. At least eleven young men and boys across Indiana and Ohio were killed between 1980 and 1991; many victims were found nude or partially clothed in remote locations near Interstate 70, and strangulation was a recurring feature. In April 1999 police identified a prime suspect, deceased businessman Herb Baumeister, but no charges were filed in Taylor’s case. The death remains unsolved.

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