Richard Edward Bruce (25)
Birth
Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana
Death
18 May 1983, Effingham, Effingham County, Illinois
Tragically, Richard Bruce 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 18, 1983, 25-year-old named Richard Bruce was murdered in Effingham, Illinois. His body was thrown from a bridge into a creek and remained undiscovered until December 5.
