Larry Bright's house

This is Larry Bright's former house.

It is located at 3418 West Starr Court in Peoria, Illinois.

Bright is a serial killer who murdered at least eight women between July 2003 and October 2004.

He was nicknamed "The Bonecrusher" because he burned four of his victims' remains in his backyard and then crushed their bones with a hammer.

Growing up, the concrete worker reportedly developed a racial fetish toward Black women.

In 1982, he was convicted of two counts of burglary and sentenced to three years in prison. Family members said that he changed while he was incarcerated. Following his release, he began abusing alcohol and cocaine.

In 2000, he suffered a back injury that put him out of work. During this period, he underwent three surgeries and became addicted to painkillers.

Unemployed and depressed, his substance abuse worsened, and he began soliciting sex workers, most of whom were Black.

Although this was the beginning of his "downward spiral," another three years would pass before he progressed to murder.

His killings began on July 25, 2003, when he strangled 30-year-old Sabrina Payne to death and then dumped her body near a cornfield in Tazewell County. Bright claimed that he "lost control" because he believed Payne was "ripping him off."

From that point on, a switch had been flipped, and he began to actively hunt for new victims.

Bright would cruise around Peoria and offer sex workers money and crack cocaine if they agreed to go back to his place. Once there, he would hold them at knifepoint, beat them, and then sexually assault them.

In some cases, he would kill them while they slept.

Most of the women were strangled to death. However, on one occasion, he gave his victim so much cocaine that she died from an overdose.

After murdering his victims, Bright would often burn their bodies in his backyard, break their bones down with a hammer, and then dump the remaining fragments in his flower bed or rural areas. On one occasion, he discarded the ashes in the backyard of his grandmother's house at 630 South Anna Avenue in Bellevue.

In October 2004, the Peoria Police Department formed a task force to investigate the murders and disappearances of ten local women. Shortly afterwards, Bright came to their attention after a woman claimed that he had attempted to rape her at knifepoint.

Three months prior, Bright had picked up a sex worker named Vickie Bomar and brought her to his outhouse, where he held her at knifepoint. Although Bomar escaped, she did not report the incident because there was an outstanding warrant for her arrest. She was also unaware that a serial killer was on the loose in Peoria.

A few months later, Bomar was arrested and sent to the county jail. Once in custody, she informed the police about her interaction with Bright.

When investigators looked into Bright's background, they learned that he had a violent reputation among sex workers.

The 38-year-old was arrested on January 20, 2005, after a forensic team discovered human bone fragments during a search of his backyard.

Upon entering the property, the police noticed disturbed soil in several sections of the yard.

Bright's mother explained that she and her son had recently removed several raspberry bushes. However, when the police examined the soil, they found ashes and fragments of charred bones.

Following his arrest, he quickly confessed to murdering eight women between 2003 and 2004.

On May 30, 2006, he pleaded guilty to seven counts of first-degree murder and one count of drug-induced homicide. He also waived all rights to appeal.

In exchange for his guilty plea, he was spared the death penalty and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

He is currently incarcerated at the Shawnee Correctional Center in Vienna.