Investigators may be getting closer to solving the mystery of the ‘I-70 Killer’ case after more than 34 years.
In the spring of 1992, an unknown serial killer took the lives of six store clerks in three states over 29 days. Authorities in several states concluded, based on eyewitness statements, ballistics tests, and an extremely specific pattern, that the murders were committed by the same person: each murder occurred at a store right near Interstate 70.
Award-winning journalist Bob Cyphers has covered the case since 1992 and followed it closely. In 2024, Cyphers published a book on the murders, Dead End: Inside the Hunt for the I-70 Serial Killer.
during a recent appearance “The Seth Roszewski Podcast”Cyphers revealed that police “brought in” a good suspect earlier this spring and told him he was being investigated as a possible suspect.
“And the police recently brought one in. And they sat this gentleman down (and told him) ‘We believe you are a suspect in the 1992 I-70 serial murders,'” Cyphers said (starting at the 51:00 mark of the interview). He looked at the policemen and said, ‘Charge me or I will leave.’ And then he got up and went out.
“We have a suspect…we’re camping out right now,” Cyphers said. “The police have their sights on someone. They believe it’s their man.”
The suspect’s name was not released, with Cyphers referring to him only as “Joe”. In 1992, witnesses described the suspect as a white male approximately 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-9, weighing 170 pounds and aged between his late 20s to mid-30s.
Victims of ‘I-70 Killer’
(Photo Credit: Marlee Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
This horrific mystery began on April 8, 1992, when 26-year-old Robin Fuldauer was shot to death in the Payless ShoeSource store where she was working alone in Indianapolis, Indiana. Three days later, 23-year-old Patricia Smith and 32-year-old Patricia Magers were shot to death at a bridal shop (which Magers owned) in Wichita, Kansas.
The fourth victim, 40-year-old Michael McKeown, was killed while working alone in his mother’s ceramics store in Terre Haute, Indiana. Six days later, 24-year-old Nancy Kitzmiller was shot and killed while working alone in Boot Village in St. Charles, Missouri.
On May 7, Sarah Blessing, 37, was also working alone at her gift shop at the Woodson Village Shopping Center in Raytown, Missouri. A man quickly entered Blessing’s store and shot him to death before witnesses saw him walking down an embankment toward a road on Interstate 70.
Based on the killer’s MO, some investigators also believe that the same man was responsible for the murders of 51-year-old Mary Ann Glasscock (Fort Worth) and 22-year-old Amy Weiss (Arlington) in Texas in 1993, the attempted murder of 35-year-old Vicki Webb (Houston) in 1994, and the murder of Billy Brossman in Terre Haute in 2001.
