Serial Killer Larry Bright Liked to Bury His Victims in His Mother's Backyard!

April 30, 2008

Peoria, Illinois serial killer Larry Bright, 38-years-old at the time of his arrest, was a momma's boy.  He liked to watch the news with her nearly every day, and even though he became excited when the news of one of his kills was splashed across the television screen, he became nervous that his mother might detect the thrill and exhilaration that he always experienced during those mother and son moments.  He worried that she might have seen the boxes of hardcore pornography that he kept hidden beneath his bed, or that she may have accidentally seen the pornographic images on his computer that depicted black women being raped and injured from his Internet downloads, but he nonetheless continued using such devices to help fuel his fantasies.

While many of the victims that he had murdered on his 15-month killing spree that began in July 2003 and lasted until late 2004 had been found along rural roads in Peoria and Tazewell Counties, which were those that were being found and shown on the nightly news, several of his victims' remains were buried in his mother's backyard after he had burned their bodies in bonfires inside a large fire pit near what would become their final resting places.  In fact, Bright had spent so much time in his mother's backyard with a shovel that some of his neighbors had nicknamed him "Digger."  But the victims that he had buried there had not shown up on the evening news—yet.

Larry Bright had spent time in prison in his youth for stealing cars and committing burglaries, and life behind bars seemed to have changed him for the worse.  After getting out of prison, he began using cocaine and drinking in excess.  He had also obtained a job with a building contractor, but he had injured his back on the job which had required a number of surgeries that had not fixed the problem and left him disabled, or so he would have people believe.  Presumably physically unable to work and addicted to painkillers, Bright became depressed.  Even though living at home with his mother, he began picking up prostitutes and would joke with his drinking pals that he planned on taking them home to meet his mom.  Even though he took the hookers home, he never introduced them to his mother.  He had already rendered them helpless with drugs and, often after sex, flew into a rage and...

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Photo Credit:  Peoria County State’s Attorney

Comments

[A. Nonny Muss]

I actually new this guy when I was younger. I palled around with him when I was in 6th grade. We used to walk to the local convenience store together so I could buy baseball cards and he could buy cards of the rock group KISS. He seemed to be a fairly normal kid, and he moved away before we started 7th grade. It was shocking to find out I knew someone who became a serial killer.

[detdavid1]

I was one of the detectives that worked this case. The writer of this article picked up on the main theme in Larry's life, his mother, which was the link to getting a confession as well.
Larry was also linked to the murder of a prostitute out of state, one which he would not confess to. We speculated that he was afraid he could do time out of state and be furhter away from his mom.

[CellMate]

While Larry Bright was in Tazewell County jail awaiting sentencing, I was in the cell next to him. We were in cells besides each other for about two months , before he got sent to Statesville for processsing.
While I was in there I got to know Larry pretty well. We often talked through the walls, and if not alreafy knowing what his crimes were, I would of thought that he was in there for something minor.
Larry went on to tell me that one of the prostitutes that he picked up ended up giving him AIDS, which then caused to him to go alittle mad

He also told me that smoking crack and meth at the same time didn't help the situation any.

I will say that he loves his mother alot, she was all that he ever wanted to talk about.