John R. Johnston (25)
Born
Death
30 Nov 1982, Lowell, Lake County, Indiana
Tragically, John Johnston 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 Highway 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.
November 30, 1982, 25-year-old John Johnston vanished from Chicago’s Uptown district. Missing for two months, he was found murdered near Lowell, Indiana on Christmas Day 1982.
