Born
5 Nov 1954, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York

Death
31 Aug 1983, Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois

Tragically, Ralph Calise, 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 August 31, 1983, 28-year-old Ralph Calise was discovered by a tree-trimming crew in a field close to a tollway near Illinois Route 60. He had been stabbed seventeen times with a butcher or hunting knife, with several wounds inflicted to his abdomen causing sections of his small intestine to protrude through his body. Lake County investigators quickly linked this murder to the stabbing deaths of two other young men whose bodies had been discovered close to this decedent earlier in 1983. (Ervin Gibson and Gustavo Herrera).