The I-70 Killer: Who Was the Stranger Killing Store Clerks Across the Midwest?
In the spring of 1992, six people were killed while working in small retail businesses across Indiana, Kansas, and Missouri. The cases began with Robin Fuldauer, a twenty-six-year-old Payless ShoeSource manager in Indianapolis. Three days later, Patricia Magers and Patricia Smith were killed inside a Wichita bridal shop. Michael “Mick” McCown was killed at a Terre Haute ceramics store, followed by Nancy Kitzmiller in St. Charles and Sarah Blessing in Raytown. Police eventually linked the six killings through firearm and ammunition evidence, transforming separate local homicides into one of the Midwest’s most enduring unsolved murder series. A customer who entered the Wichita bridal shop encountered an armed man and later supplied the description used for suspect sketches. Yet a description, like a ballistics connection, could point investigators toward a person without establishing who that person was. Over the decades, investigators have considered possible later crimes, reviewed surveillance from a separate Terre Haute homicide, updated sketches, coordinated across agencies, and pursued renewed forensic testing. Some evidence has produced leads. None has publicly identified the person responsible for the confirmed 1992 series. This episode follows the documented timeline, the evidence that connected five crime scenes, and the crucial gap that remains: how to connect a linked weapon, a witness account, and decades of investigative work to one identifiable offender. This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication. #TheUnsolvedFiles #UnsolvedMurder #I70Killer #UnsolvedSerialMurders #RobinFuldauer