The bodies have been dumped off major interstates or highways,” Det. “We had homicide cases from 1982 all the way through August of 1983. He was identified as Steven Crockett, a 19-year-old Chicago resident who’d been arrested for male prostitution.ĭetectives learned that Indiana officials were also working cases of men being stabbed to death and dumped half-undressed in desolate areas. His body was found with his pants down in October 1982 in a rural area on the Illinois-Indiana state line. They discovered that officials in Kankakee County were investigating the case of a man stabbed 27 times.
Officials followed various leads and searched for a connection linking the three victims.