Steven Lynn Elliott (26)
Born
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
Death
12 Aug 1989, Preble County, Ohio
Tragically, Steven Elliott 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 August 12, 1989, 26-year-old Steven Lynn Elliott’s body, clad in his underwear, was found in rural Preble County, Ohio, near Interstate 70. He had been strangled, presumably with a rope. Elliot’s father told police that when his son came out as gay in 1979, he then left the family household and became involved in prostitution, developing an alcohol addiction.
