Clay Russell Boatman, a 32-year-old licensed practical nurse, disappeared after leaving his Richmond, Indiana apartment to visit Our Place, a local gay bar. His car was later found at the establishment, and his body was recovered near Eaton, Ohio on August 14, 1990; the coroner’s report noted signs of strangulation.

Boatman has been linked to the killings attributed to the unidentified I-70 Strangler, a series of at least eleven murders of young boys and adult men with bodies dumped near Interstate 70 between June 1980 and October 1991. Law enforcement later identified businessman Herb Baumeister as a prime suspect in April 1999; Baumeister died by suicide in 1996 and was separately connected to remains found on his property. Boatman’s family denied that he was homosexual, a detail that added complexity to the case.

The murder remains unsolved and is part of the larger, unresolved I-70 Strangler investigations. Does anyone have information about Boatman’s movements the night he left Richmond or about witnesses at Our Place?