Silas Carter Jayne (July 3, 1907 – July 13, 1987) was a Chicago-based stable owner who was implicated in multiple notorious crimes.
He was convicted of rape as a teenager for which he served a year in reformatory.
He was convicted for conspiracy to murder in 1973 of George Jayne, his maternal brother, for which he served seven years imprisonment.
After his death, Silas Jayne was linked to one of the most notorious crimes in the city's history, the 1955 Peterson–Schuessler murder of three young boys.
Jayne is also suspected of having been involved in the 1956 murder of the two Grimes sisters, and in the 1977 disappearance of heiress Helen Brach.