True Crime Stories

I remember the night that this crime occurred.  Although I no longer lived in Indianapolis, the town in which I grew up, I still lived in an area in which I could obtain their local programming.  It was a Saturday night and I was in my office watching and episode of 48 Hours  I am sure (it could have been Dateline  but I doubt that).  My husband does not watch many of those shows with me so I tend to watch them alone.  The episode was running late that night or else it had just finished because suddenly the local news station broke in with breaking news.  A home had exploded (that they knew) in a subdivision on the southeast side of the city called Richmond Hill.   Of course, as is the case with every story little was known right away but there were still homes on fire as the news crews hit the scene.  No one knew then what for sure had happened, if anyone was hurt, or even killed.  I remember the scene looked so chaotic.  The new...

This post will be quite a bit different as this is an ongoing case and is yet to go to trial.  This may seem unusual if you have read my last blog and my criticism of the media and their reporting, considering at this point in this investigation there are not trial transcripts or a lot of documents to depend on.  Most of the information is based on media reports, although some is based on interviews with law enforcement, as well as victims and suspects of the crime. This case interested me from the beginning.  I grew up in Indianapolis, although not near this crime scene and although I no longer live there I am close enough to obtain their local television stations, as well as I attempt to keep up to date on the happenings there due to family still residing there.   On the night of November 10, 2012 around 11 pm there was an explosion in what is known as the Richmond Hill subdivision on the south side of Indianapolis.  I quickly learned of it from notices on...