Ongole Highway Murders: Court Sentences 11 To Death Including Munna Bhai May 25, 2021, 13:59 IST
PRAKASAM: The Eighth Additional Sessions Court on Monday awarded the death penalty to the notorious highway serial killer gang headed by Md Abdul Samad alias Munna Bhai and 11 of his gang members. Judge G. Manohar Reddy sentenced 12 people to death, where four were sentenced to life imprisonment and another to seven years in prison.
The main accused Munna Bhai (51) and his gang members were arrested in cases related to ghastly murders and robberies on the national highways in 2008 near Ongole and have been lodged in prison for the past 13 years.
To solve three cold cases, this small county got a DNA crash course
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By: Virginia Hughes
Forensic genealogy helped nab the Golden State Killer in 2018. Now investigators across the country are using it to revisit hundreds of unsolved crimes. In October 2016, the remains of three murder victims, dead for three decades, were laid to rest in Newton County, a rural corner of Indiana.
Two were young men, likely teenagers, the victims of a serial killer in 1983. The third was a woman found dead in 1988 on the bank of a creek. She had been shot in the head, covered with car tires and lit on fire.
Third Highway Killer Victim ID ed after 38 Years forensicmag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from forensicmag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
John Ingram Brandenburg Jr. of Chicago had previously been identified as a Brad Doe
Four human bodies were discovered buried in a shallow grave on an abandoned farm in rural Lake Village in Newton County, Indiana on October 18, 1983
Brandenburg, called Johnny by his mother, had been drugged and killed by Eyler, who confessed to at least 20 killings before dying in an Illinois prison of AIDS in 1994
Eyler was on death row for the 1984 murder of Danny Bridges, a 15-year-old
Serial killer s victim, found in Lake Village, ID d after nearly 38 years
The remains of a man found in Lake Village in Newton County have been identified after nearly 38 years.
Posted: Apr 26, 2021 3:19 PM
Updated: Apr 26, 2021 6:45 PM
Posted By: Joseph Paul
NEWTON COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) The remains of a man found in Lake Village have been identified after nearly 38 years.
John Ingram Brandenburg was among four people police say were drugged and murdered by serial killer Larry Eyler before their bodies were dumped on an abondanded farm off U.S. Highway 41.
Mushroom hunters found the decomposing remains in October of 1983. Police couldn t identify Brandenburg until recently, when authorities used family members DNA to confirm who he was.