Otto Gary Becker (42)
Born
Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri
Death
6 Aug 1991, Greensboro, Henry County, Indiana
Tragically, Gary Becker 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 Stranger” 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 August 6, 1991, 42-year-old Otto Gary Becker was found in a ditch next to a gravel road in rural Henry County, Indiana. While investigating his murder, police identified several witnesses who claimed to have seen Becker in a car with another male driving north on Interstate 70 near Indianapolis. The witnesses were taken to the police station and shown photographs of various criminals convicted of kidnapping and murder charges in the state, but none of them was matched to the alleged abductor. During the investigation, it was learned that the victim was observed being restrained by a white male while a second white male was driving the victim’s vehicle northbound on I-465 from Shadeland Avenue in Indianapolis. The victim’s vehicle, a brown 1982 Honda Accord, Ohio registration CRS222, was later recovered in Columbus, Ohio. The victim was known to frequent homeless shelters, missions, and hotel/motels on the east side of Indianapolis, Indiana along Washington Street.
