Bodies Found in Preble, Indy Identified

by Pete Wasson

The bodies found in Preble County have been those of:

• Eric Allen Roettger, 17, of Indianapolis, who was found on May 9, 1985, in a creek bed near Roscoe Road, east of Lewisburg.
• Michael Allen Glenn, of Indianapolis, who was found August 17, 1986, in a creek bed near Crawfordsville Campbellstown Road, south of New Hope and west of Eaton. Glenn was not identified by his fingerprints until October 16, 1989.
• Steven L. Elliot, 26, who was found on August 12, 1989, in a stream bed near Cox Road between New Westville and the Indiana State Line.
• Clay Russell Boatman, 32, who was found on August 14, 1990. A former Richmond resident, Boatman was found by youths playing near a bridge on the bank of Sugar Run Creek. He had been missing since August 7, when he failed to show up at the Greenbriar Nursing Home where he worked as a nurse. His car was later found at the homosexual bar Our Place in Indianapolis.

The bodies that have been found around Indianapolis are those of:

• Michael Petree, who was found in June 1980 in a ditch in Hamilton County north of Indianapolis.  No cause of death has been determined.
• Maurice Taylor, who was found in July 1982 in a rural area of Indianapolis. No cause of death has been determined.
• Delvoyd Baker, who was found strangled to death in October 1982 in Rural Hamilton County.
• Michael Riley, who was found strangled to death in June 1983 in rural Hancock County.
• James Robbins, who was found strangled to death in a ditch in rural Shelby County, southwest of Indianapolis.