As far as authorities are aware, Greenwell didn’t commit another murder for over two years. But something may have motivated him to make up for lost time, as the next time he struck, he killed two women on the same night.
Mary Margaret “Peggy” Gill clocked in to work her shift at the Days Inn in Merrillville, Indiana at 11 p.m. on March 2, 1989. The last anyone saw her alive was when she checked in a guest between 1:30 a.m. and 1:40 a.m. on March 3. American Crime Journal reports that at 2:00 a.m., a guest attempted to check in but, after finding no one at the desk, went to another area motel. After her manager hadn’t heard from her before her scheduled shift was to end, the police were phoned. After searching the hotel, they found that the register was emptied of money. They also discovered Gill’s nude body in a vacant wing. She had been shot twice in the head.
50 miles away in Remington, Indiana, 34-year-old Jeanne Gilbert reported to her job at the local Days Inn. Some time after giving a guest a 4 a.m. wake-up call, she disappeared from her post. The police were called and noticed the register had been pried open. But Gilbert was nowhere on the property. They discovered her naked body in a ditch off of a county road. She, like Gill, had been raped and shot (per American Crime Journal).
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