Taylor was a vagrant who lived in the boiler room of an apartment complex in Indianapolis, and due to his financial difficulties, he offered sexual services around the gay bars. While his cause of death couldn't be definitively established, the coroners suspected that he had been strangled. Maurice Taylor (23)'s topless corpse was found in July 1982 in the Weasel Creek in rural Hamilton County outside Atlanta.The cause of death was established as strangulation no traces of drugs or alcohol were found in his blood. He was reported missing on June 7, but three days later, he was observed in different parts of the city riding along in a stranger's car. Despite his young age, he was a male prostitute who spent most of his time around Indianapolis' gay bars. Michael Petree (15) was discovered naked in rural Hamilton County, Indiana on June 16, 1980.In total, 12 men were recorded as his official victims:
All of the victims were later found naked or partially clothed near I-70, often dumped in rivers, streams and ditches in the rural countryside.
The killer would choose young boys and adolescents as victims, whom he met in popular gay bars and other similar establishments within a four-block radius in Indianapolis.