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GILL, GILBERT: 'Days Inn murders' remain unsolvedMay 31, 1989|By Ronald Koziol.
Chicago Tribune
``We`re hoping for a break somewhere,`` said Hicks, who noted that a there is an outstanding $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer or killers of the clerks slain in the early morning of May 3. ``We`ll go anywhere the investigation takes us.``
Margaret Mary Gill, 24, a desk clerk at the Merrillville Days Inn, was slain between 12:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. Her body was found in a remote area behind the motel.
The second victim, Jeanne M. Gilbert, 34, of Rensselaer, was discovered in a roadside ditch about 15 miles south of the Days Inn Motel, where she worked, near Remington, Ind.
AMW: Unknown Interstate 65 Serial Killerby Susan Ehrler
November 30, 2009 12:05 am
NWI Times
Both women were sexually assaulted, and ballistic tests revealed the same gun was used in both murders.
A joint investigation by the Merrillville Police Department, the Jasper County Sheriff's Department and the Indiana State Police turned up potential suspects. But more than 20 years later, the killer or killers remain at large.
On February 21, 1987, Elizabethtown Police were called to investigate the disappearance of the night clerk employed at The Super 8 Motel, located at 2018 North Mulberry St.
Shortly after police arrived at the scene, they discovered a body behind the motel. The victim, Vicki Heath, was found dead from a gunshot wound.
This case remained a cold case until the recent technology of DNA evidence linked this crime with three other similar crimes. The case was aired on Americas Most Wanted.
Posted: Feb 19, 2011 9:12 PM CDT By Rachel Collier41-year-old Vicki Heath worked as an overnight desk clerk at a Super 8 Motel in Elizabethtown, and on February 21st 1987 she was attacked inside. "Apparently the lobby was a wreck and the pay phone had been torn off the wall," said Johnson.
Vicki was found out back behind a dumpster. She had been sexually assaulted and shot to death. "But I'm sure she put up a good fight, my sister would've put up a good fight," said Johnson with confidence.
For 23 years police thought Vicki's case was an isolated incident.
What is it about Days Inn? I just read about a case in Philly where a girl was murdered there.
[h=1]Daughter speaks out on 28th anniversary of Remington cold case[/h] Brittany Tyner Published: March 3, 2017
RENSSELAER, Ind. (WLFI) — Today marks 28 years since a Rensselaer woman was abducted and murdered while working overnight at a Remington motel. It’s a case that’s never been solved. Now, her daughter is speaking out about the importance of not letting the same happen with the Delphi double homicide investigation.
Kimberly Gilbert Wright said every year on March 3 she celebrates her mother’s life. However, this year is different.
She said learning about the deaths of 14-year-old Libby German and 13-year-old Abby Williams has brought back emotions she hasn’t felt in years.
“My mother had just attended my last sectional game as a cheerleader, and she actually traded someone shifts so that she could go to my game,” Gilbert Wright said.
But that night, Jeanne along with $247 from the Days Inn went missing. Her body was found more than 20 miles away, near Brookston. While investigators were able to link Jeanne’s case to other crimes and believe a serial killer is to blame, no arrests have been made.
“There’s so much more technology, social media, ways to get the word out now, than there were back in ’89,” said Gilbert Wright. “I would hope that would bring the case to a quicker resolution than my mother’s.”
Investigators are working hard to do just that, filtering through thousands of tips in the Delphi case
[FONT="]Police believe the suspect murdered the first known victim at a Motel 8. The victim, 38-year-old Vicki Heath, was found dead behind a trash bin at motel on Feb. 21, 1987. She worked the late shift as a desk clerk. Heath had been sodomized and shot twice in the head with a .38 caliber handgun, according EPD.[/FONT][FONT="]Thanks to help from the Kentucky State Police crime lab, Elizabethtown detective Clinton Turner was able to link her murder to two other murders in Indiana.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Original reports said Heath was found on her back in the mud created by a nearly melted sprinkling of snow, still wearing her sweater and plaid skirt. No murder weapon was found.[/FONT]
[FONT="]One set of footprints led away from her body to the parking lot and abruptly ended, suggesting to Ruben Gardner, then a lieutenant with the Elizabethtown Police Department and now police chief, that the killer got into a car and drove off.[/FONT]
This is making me crazy- we moved to Lebanon IN in 1987. Within a couple of years of moving here, the female night clerk at the Lebanon Holiday Inn (I-65 and SR 39) was brutally beaten to death. Likely with a golf club she kept behind the desk for protection. No one has ever been arrested.
I cannot help but wonder if it is connected. I've never heard of these three cases before.
Just got this info from a local: Victoria Harshman, September 19-20 (overnight), 1991.
Agree Sam. I just wish we could give closure.I grew up in Elizabethtown. With them having his DNA, I would say it is on record somewhere, and since there are no more connecting murders, could that mean he has passed away? If he was arrested I am sure is DNA would have been checked, right?
Amything coming along with DNA or sketch??