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The writings of an Ohio prisoner published in biker magazines were cited by the police for the charge of shooting death of a motorist found along the Pennsylvania Highway in 1972, police said Friday.
Larry Joseph Via, 75, was charged with criminal homicide and robbery after the death of Morgan Peters, shot in the back, following an investigation by a grand jury that had started two years ago.
Via serving a life sentence at the Marion Correctional Institute for a murder shortly after the discovery of Peters' body in September 1972.
Via has not had a lawyer listed in court records that could speak for him. No date for a court appearance has been entered.
Peters, 29, a married father who lived in Bay Shore, New York, had traveled to Pennsylvania for a work trip. We saw him get on the highway to go west to Carlisle to Latrobe.
His truck was found about 30 km from his body and was missing items, including a black Panasonic radio, investigators said.
Charmaine Phillips, a woman who was with Via at the time, told investigators that in August 2017, Via had told her to pull her sedan while she was driving on the freeway in the direction of Cleveland.
Phillips said that Via was out after a vehicle stopped behind them, according to a police affidavit.
"She said that Via had been gone for a few minutes and that when he got back to his vehicle, he said," We have to go! "When asked if she had heard a shot, Phillips replied that she had not done it," police wrote.
Phillips told the police, Via, that she had driven the other vehicle behind her for some distance. At one point they broke up and she went to Cleveland, she told the police.
Phillips had told the police in 2015 that she and Via had a "trick" to get people to park – "they would pretend to hitchhike to be driven," said the police. She said the trick had been used more than once but that she could not remember more details.
After two ex-women from Via had told the police that he had written poems and short stories for the magazine Easy Rider under the pseudonym "Jody Via", a soldier found nine writings under that name in the magazines Easy Rider and Outlaw Biker of the late 1980s, police said.
"Dangerous Dave", published in Outlaw Biker in September 1985, spoke of a woman hitchhiking who prompted a man to stop for her. The man is then surprised by an armed man.
"As the driver approached on foot, a" cold "voice from behind a tree told the man to stop and not" move a muscle. "" Dangerous Dave "then describes the shooter's 39, approaching the man and "ready to shoot", said the court affidavit.
Another coin, "Payback in Full", implicated a woman suspected of tying up a victim, similar to the shooting of Harvey Hoffman's service station owner in Geauga County, Ohio, announced investigators.
One of the articles, "Moonlit Ride," contains a framework and facts similar to the murder of Jane Maguire in Summit County, Ohio, police said.
Via was arrested in 1972 for these two deaths and is serving the death sentence for killing Maguire.
During his arrest, according to the police, he had among others a black radio Panasonic.
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