Born
23 Jun 1959, Indiana

Death
19 Dec 1982, Newport, Vermillion County, Indiana

Tragically, Steven Agan 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 Highway 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 December 19, 1982, 23-year-old Steven Agan was abducted in Terre Haute. His body was discovered in woodland close to Indiana State Road 63 on December 28. An examination of the outbuilding of an abandoned farm close to the crime scene revealed several traces of human flesh upon the walls in areas where plaster had been damaged, leading investigators to speculate Agan had been suspended against the walls of this property as his murderer had inflicted the injuries to his body. Noting the extensive mutilation upon Agan’s abdomen, chest, and throat, the coroner who performed this autopsy, Dr. John Pless, referenced the “tremendous rage” Agan’s killer had exhibited upon his victim in his autopsy report, adding a likelihood of there being more than one perpetrator in this murder.