Larry Dean Bright (born July 8, 1966), also known as The Bonecrusher, is an American serial killer responsible for the deaths of at least eight women between the ages of 30 and 41 in central Illinois.
[2] Not long after 2000, Bright began to spend a great deal of free time around sex workers, taking particular interest in African-American women.
Bomar claimed that she was afraid to report the incident earlier, as she had failed to appear in court on other charges, which officers later confirmed when checking her criminal history.
During this search, police attention was drawn to several plots of excavated land, which Bright's mother claimed originated when she and her son removed several raspberry bushes.
After forensic examination determined that the bone fragments were human in origin, Bright was charged with murder, and the prosecutor ordered his house excavated.
[7] In early August 2004, Bright met 33-year-old sex worker Laura Lollar, and offered her money in exchange for sexual services.
[8] In late September, Bright met with 40-year-old sex worker Linda K. Neal in the parking lot of a Peoria furniture store.
During the interrogation, Bright claimed that he had no memory of the woman's name or where they had met, but that he took her to his house, they took drugs for about an hour, and then engaged in intercourse before he attacked her.
She nearly managed to run away, but was unable to open the door and leave the building, which enabled Bright to strike her several times in the back of the head.
While still intoxicated, Bright intended to dispose of Erving's body in a nearby lake, but he became disoriented and instead discarded of the corpse near a dairy farm in Peoria County instead, where it was found shortly after.