A comprehensive chronology of Greenwell’s criminal record, violent offenses, confirmed victims, and the decades-long investigation that finally identified him
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For decades, the man known as the I-65 Serial Killer existed only as a composite sketch, a collection of crime scene reports, and an unidentified DNA profile. Investigators knew he had murdered motel clerks, sexually assaulted survivors, and operated across multiple states, but they did not know his name.
That changed on April 5, 2022, when investigators announced that Harry Edward Greenwell had been identified through forensic genealogy as the offender responsible for the murders of Vicki Heath, Margaret “Peggy” Gill, Jeanne Gilbert, and the violent assaults of two surviving victims in Indiana and Minnesota…