Birth
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Death
9 July 1983, Paxton, Illinois

Tragically, Ford County John Doe was one of the victims of Chicago’s serial murderer, Larry Eyler who was convicted of murdering 21 young men and boys between 1982 and 1984 and sentenced to death by lethal injection, died of AIDS-related complications in 1994 while incarcerated on death row. He was known as “The Interstate Killer” as many of his victims were discovered close to the Interstate Highway and is also known to have killed an additional 20 more young men and boys.

On July 2, 1983, the partially clad body of an unidentified Hispanic man was discovered in a field near Paxton, Illinois. This individual, later referred to as the “Ford County John Doe,” had been deceased for approximately four to five days and had suffered multiple stab wounds to the abdomen. He was one of the victims of Larry Eyler, a notorious serial killer known as “The Interstate Killer.”