I-70 killer: History and Key Facts

The I-70 killer is an unidentified American serial killer who is believed to have killed six store clerks in the Midwestern United States in the spring of 1992. His nickname derives from the fact that several of the stores in which his victims worked were a few miles from Interstate 70.

The victims were usually young, petite, brunette women. One was a man, but it is believed that the killer mistook him for a woman because the store had a woman's name and the victim had long hair. The stores were all specialty stores and usually robbed of only small amounts of cash. The killer is also suspected of shooting three store clerks in Texas in 1993 and 1994, one of whom survived, as well as a 2001 murder of a store clerk in Terre Haute, Indiana.

The case was featured on Unsolved Mysteries, America's Most Wanted, Dark Minds, and People Magazine Investigates, but the killer has not been identified and investigators have not publicly named any suspects.

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