Maurice Allen Taylor, 22
Born
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
Death,
21 Jul 1982, Atlanta, Hamilton County, Indiana
Tragically, Maurice Taylor was one of the victims of an unidentified American serial killer who killed at least eleven young boys and adult men in Indiana and Ohio between June 1980 and October 1991, dumping their bodies near Interstate 70. He was known as the “I-70 Strangler” who killed at least another 24 young men and boys. Though officially unsolved, Herb Baumeister was named the prime suspect in the case in April 1999 by law enforcement. According to investigators, bodies related to the “I-70 Strangler” case stopped being found in 1991 after Baumeister bought the Fox Hollow Farm, which he would use as a burial site for his subsequent victims.
On July 21, 1982, 22-year-old Maurice Taylor’s topless corpse was found in the Weasel Creek in rural Hamilton County Indiana. While his cause of death was not sufficiently established, law enforcement suspected that he had been strangled. Taylor was a vagrant who lived in the boiler room of an apartment complex in Indianapolis, and due to his financial difficulties, he offered sexual services around the gay bars.
