Police have cited an Ohio prison inmate’s writing published in biker magazines in charging him with the shooting death of a motorist found along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 1972.
Authorities said Friday that 75-year-old Larry Joseph Via was charged with criminal homicide and robbery in the death of Morgan Peters.
Police cited details in “Dangerous Dave,” a piece by Via that was published in Outlaw Biker in September 1985.
The piece was about a hitchhiking woman who lured a man to stop for her, and the man is then surprised by a gunman.
Via is serving a life sentence for a killing that occurred shortly after Peters’ body was found. Police say the details of that killing also match another piece of writing by Via.
Via did not have a lawyer listed in court records who could speak for him.
