On January 16, 1991, Reverend William Harvey Radcliffe, 39, was found in a pool of blood inside the men’s restroom at a northbound rest area on Interstate 65 in Boone County. He had been shot in the back of the head at point-blank range and did not survive. A traveler, Jack Fansler, discovered the wounded reverend and called for help.

Boone County Sheriff Ern Hudson and a deputy worked with the Indiana State Police on an investigation that linked the killing to a multi-county crime spree that included hotel robberies. Three men — Gerald Bivins, Gary Kevin Robertson, and James M. Warren — became the focus. Bivins said Robertson and Warren had thrown the murder weapon, a .38 Colt revolver, from the Peter Mills Bridge into Wildcat Creek; divers later recovered the gun where Bivins indicated.

Investigators later directed attention at Gerald Wayne Bivins, and on March 7, 1991, a jury convicted him on six charges, including the murder of Reverend Radcliffe. The prosecution said Bivins killed the minister merely to see what it felt like. Did anyone who knew Reverend Radcliffe or who traveled I-65 that night see anything that could help clarify what happened?