An Indiana man awaiting trial for allegedly killing his wife won the right to be on the November ballot for a seat on a township board. Andrew Wilhoite, who is jailed without bond, was one of three Republican candidates running in Tuesday’s primary vote, and all three candidates will be on the general election ballot …
An Indiana teenager has been charged with the shooting death of his 17-year-old brother Saturday afternoon. The Kokomo Police Department said the 17-year-old told police his 14-year-old brother shot him and then ran away. Police said they found the younger boy about a mile from the scene of the shooting and took him into custody …
An Indiana woman reported missing with her 5-month-old son a week ago was found dead Tuesday night in her SUV in South Bend. Alexis Morales’s son, Messiah, was also inside the vehicle, alive, and is now at a hospital with family members, WNDU reported. South Bend Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski did not share specifics about …
The body of a young boy found dead this weekend in southern Indiana was stuffed into a hardshell suitcase painted with the famous “Welcome to Las Vegas Nevada” sign. Indiana State Police said an autopsy on the body was completed Tuesday, but investigators have not confirmed a cause of death, the Louisville Courier Journal reported. …
Indiana State Police are asking for help identifying a young boy found dead in a heavily wooded area in Washington County. Investigators said a local resident out hunting mushroom found the body at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday evening. The child is described as between the ages of 5 and 8, Black, about 4 feet tall …
Investigators have found the remains of an Indiana mom who disappeared more than a week ago. Gary police spokesman Jack Hamady said the body of Ariana Taylor, 23, was found in a shallow drainage ditch at about 9 a.m. Wednesday morning, WFLD said. Taylor, the mother of a 4-year-old son, was last seen leaving her …
Genetic genealogy has closed the book on another cold case, this one the “I-65 Killer” who raped and murdered three women working as clerks in motels along the interstate corridor in Indiana and Kentucky in the late 1980s. Indiana State Police said Tuesday that Harry Edward Greenwell was responsible for the deaths of Vicki Heath, …
An Indiana man has been charged with killing his wife after her body was found early Saturday partially submerged in a creek. Indiana State Police arrested 39-year-old Andrew Wilhoite, saying he struck Nikki Wilhoite in the head with a blunt object, then drove her to a nearby creek, and dumped her body, WISH reported. Nikki …
An Indiana high school teacher who retired after he was reportedly filmed slapping a student last month is facing criminal charges in connection with the incident. WBND reported that Michael Hosinski, 61, was arrested on March 3 for misdemeanor battery, but the charges were formally filed on Monday in Elkhart County. Hosinski was a social …
A 13-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of a 77-year-old woman in Indianapolis earlier this month. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department conducted a welfare check at the home of Cecelia O’Bryan on February 11 and found her dead, with “injuries consistent with trauma,” WISH reported. A second 13-year-old boy was also arrested and …
An Indianapolis nursing home resident was arrested last week and charged with the rape and murder of an 80-year-old woman living at the same facility. Court documents say that a nurse went into Patricia Newnum’s room at about 5 a.m. to dispense her medicine and found Dwayne Freeman on top of her, holding a pillow …
A 6-year-old boy reporting missing from Chicago’s northern suburbs earlier this week was found dead Saturday morning near an abandoned house in Gary, Indiana. The North Chicago Police Department said that three adult members of Damari Perry’s family “believed to be responsible for Damari’s death are in police custody.” Other juvenile members of the family …
