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Jul 27, 2023 · The killer vanished until August, when poor Daniel Bridges had his fateful encounter. Eyler was convicted of Bridges'murder in 1986 and was given a one-way ticket to death row.
Jul 27, 2023 · Daniel Bridges was one of the 20 young men killed by Larry Eyler, who confessed to the murders before his death in 1994. His body was never found, but DNA testing identified him as Adam Doe in 2023.
Actor: The Fall Dude. Daniel Bridges is known for The Fall Dude (2014), Alien Dawn (2012) and Starship: Rising (2014).
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At approximately 10:30 p.m. on August 19, 1984, Eyler lured a 16-year-old Uptown youth named Daniel Bridges to his apartment. The youngest of thirteen children, Bridges was a neglected child and habitual runaway who, although heterosexual, had been a male prostitute since the age of twelve.
- Larry Eyler’s Early Life
- Larry Eyler Turn Towards Violence
- Becoming The Highway Killer
- An Arrest, A Release, and Another Attack
- The Final Murder
One need only glimpse Larry Eyler’s childhood to understand how he was driven to kill as an adult. Born Larry William Eyler on December 21, 1952, in Crawfordsville, Indiana to a battered mother and an alcoholic father, life was not easy for Eyler from the start. His father regularly beat him and his two older and one younger sibling. Even after his...
Though he was, arguably, one of the worst serial killers of the late ’70s and early ’80s, Larry Eyler was generally well-liked among his peers. In fact, following the Craig Long incident, his friends raised money and posted his $10,000 bond to get him released from prison. Following his completion of high school via a GED, Eyler took a job at the M...
It is believed that between 1982 and 1984 Larry Eyler picked up and murdered, at minimum, 21 young men. Their bodies were found strewn about the sides of highways or dropped unceremoniously in cornfields near major bypasses, earning Eyler his nickname of the “Highway Killer” or “Interstate Killer.” All of the men had been found with their pants and...
On September 30, 1983, Larry Eyler was arrested on a traffic violation. When he was pulled over there was a young hitchhiker in the car with him and based on the sketchy interactions between the two the officer arrested both men for solicitation. Following the arrest, Eyler’s truck was searched, revealing rope in the trunk, along with handcuffs, a ...
On August 21, 1984, a janitor discovered human remains in garbage bags in a Chicago apartment complex – the same complex to which Larry Eyler had relocated following his mess of a murder charge. The remains belonged to 16-year-old runaway Daniel Bridges. The teenager had been operating as a prostitute since he was 12 when he secured his last job wi...
Jul 25, 2023 · Eyler was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection for the 1984 kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Daniel Bridges. During his time on death row, he later confessed to...
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Danny Bridges was the official 23rd victim of serial killer Larry Eyler. The trial for Danny's murder led to a conviction of death for Eyler (Eyler died in prison before an execution date was set).
