While Eyler is largely forgotten today, his trial was highly publicized at the time. “I’m like, ‘How can this be? How can it be that nobody knows these kids, nobody claimed these kids?’ ” McCord said. McCord later learned more: Two other Eyler victims also remained unnamed in the Indiana counties of Jasper and Hendricks. The bones in the boxes belonged to two young murder victims of serial killer Larry Eyler. As McCord tells it, a higher-up called back to say the case was closed and the bones had all been returned to the families. McCord called the state police District 13 station one county north, in Lowell, to find out more about the case. How a dead Houston father remained unidentified for 12 yearsĪ Minnesota woman’s tireless campaign to crack decades-old cold case Searchable database: The Lost & The Found Left for dead: How America fails the missing and unidentified
