Birth
2 Feb 1965, Indiana

Death
9 May 1983, South Holland, Cook County, Illinois

Tragically, Jimmie Roberts 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 May 9, 1983, 18-year-old, Jimmie Roberts, an African American teenager had been found with thirty-five stab wounds to his body in Thorn Creek. Investigators in Chicago reported to the task force that both victims were linked to the manhunt for the same perpetrator, whom this task force termed the Highway Murderer.