Forty years after his father worked as a detective on the original murder investigation, a police officer has now solved the cold case and arrested the suspected killer.
On November 3 1981, John Blaylock, 51, was found beaten to death in the bedroom of his apartment in Griffith, Indiana.
He was naked from the waist down with blood splattered all over the room, according to court documents seen by Fox56 . Broken shards of pottery containing Blaylock’s hair and tissue were by his body and there was traces of blood in other rooms of the home.
The 51-year-old was last seen alive at John’s Place bar, in Griffith, with a witness saying she spotted him standing at the bar with a man, the documents state. The man was described as being aged 20 to 23, around 5 ft 8 tall, with “straggly dirty blonde hair.”
Griffith Detective John Mowery Sr was among the officers working on the original investigation.
But Blaylock’s killer remained a mystery and the case went cold for more than four decades.