GUILTY IN - DARREN DEON VANN, 43, Gary, body count at seven, more expected

[steelman]

I love it when people 'lawyer up'. This is America at its finest.


JUST MY OPINION

:judge::judge::judge:

That's why lawyers have the reputation they do.............................nobody likes them.............nobody trusts them

 

[Starry Night]

:judge::judge::judge:

That's why lawyers have the reputation they do.............................nobody likes them.............nobody trusts them

They sure like Barry Scheck.

 

[Truthy]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/21/us/indiana-possible-serial-killer/


You take your girlfriend hostage, physically assault her in front of witnesses, threaten to light her up like a tikki torch, and hold the cops at bay during the entire process.............

90 days ?

No wonder these criminals are repeat offenders.........where is the incentive not to be ?

And the sad thing is, people take things like this a lot LESS seriously than when it is an attack from a random stranger. (and attacks from random strangers are so less common) To me, that says that in some way people think these victims share some blame. That is what is wrong with the system, the old boys do not want to judge how others treat their wives, girlfriends, or even fellow college students. If you flirted with him once, he can do anything her wants.
That is what it feels like. Very sad state of things.

ALL IMHO.

 

[KateB]

Hearing delayed; reputed serial killer not properly dressed
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/...cle_05f6ce0b-fb49-5764-ab68-32ab62279eab.html

An online court entry states Vann was not dressed appropriately and was not competent to participate in last week's hearing, which is why the court rescheduled it for Dec. 19.
Inmates typically wear jail uniforms for court hearings.
The Lake County Jail was ordered to preserve video footage of Vann, which was requested by his defense attorneys.

 

[KateB]

Prosecutor: Vann cases presented for downstate death penalty review
http://posttrib.chicagotribune.com/...-presented-to-death-penalty-review-board.html

CROWN POINT — Two murder cases filed against suspected serial killer Darren Deon Vann have already been presented to the downstate death penalty review board, Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter said in court Friday.

Carter, who along with two deputy prosecutors is prosecuting Vann, told Lake Superior Court Judge Diane Ross Boswell on Friday that he wants to subpoena Vann’s school records from Ohio and his military service records “because we want to know the type of person he is,” and whether those records might contain information, such as his level of education or possible mental illness, that could be a mitigating factor if the death sentence request is filed.

Defense attorney Teresa Hollandsworth objected to the release of the documents.
...
Boswell sided with Hollandsworth and denied the motion, saying the records “are not relevant to the case as it stands today.”

Vann’s omnibus hearing is Feb. 13. He has not been charged in the deaths of Batey, Williams or the unidentified victims.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/...cle_a41fe0e6-15f3-50b4-9b5f-7be1274f1875.html

In the three months since murder charges were filed against Vann, his behavior in Lake Criminal Court has raised questions about his mental health...

Court records so far have not indicated Vann is mentally ill, but the state last month expressed interest in delving into his mental health history...

The Lake County prosecutor's office in December requested Vann's school and military records. Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter said in court the documents could provide insight into Vann's mental health history as his office mulls whether to seek the death penalty. Lake Criminal Judge Diane Boswell denied the request for records.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/body-found-in-abandoned-gary-building-identified

The Lake County coroner has identified a woman whose remains were found in an abandoned Gary building that authorities were led to by a man suspected in seven deaths.

Coroner Merrilee Frey said the woman whose body was found Oct. 19 was 41-year-old Tracy L. Martin of Gary.

Frey says Martin's identity was learned through DNA testing by the Indiana State Police Laboratory in Indianapolis... Frey did not indicate how Martin died.

 

[SurfieTX]

CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — A northwestern Indiana sheriff whose county jail is holding a man charged with strangling two women and suspected of killing five others says he won’t provide that man with any forms of entertainment unless a court orders him to do so.

Lake County Sheriff John Buncich said Darren Vann’s attorneys have asked the county’s jail warden to return or provide Vann with a book he previously received about the Chicago White Sox and previous owner Bill Veeck.

Buncich said Friday that he’ll feed, clothe and shelter the 43-year-old Gary man, but he won’t provide entertainment to Vann without a court order.

“Does he think I run a newsstand? Does he want a romance novel?” Buncich told The (Munster) Times.

http://wane.com/2015/01/18/sheriff-says-he-wont-entertain-suspect-in-7-indiana-deaths/

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-ptb-davich-serial-killer-victim-st-0201-20150131-column.html

Linda Felinski secretly hopes her daughter was high, yet again, when she was strangled and suffocated to death, allegedly by a man suspected of being a serial killer. It's an admittedly morbid hope that only a grieving mother could feel for a lost soul who already felt too much pain in life.

"She had so many demons, they're finally gone," Felinski told me Saturday during a private memorial for her daughter, Tracy Lynn Martin... "I always had a little thread of hope that she would turn her life around. But it's gone now"...

On Saturday, dozens of mourners attended the memorial service at a Portage cemetery. Martin's cremated remains were placed in the same plot as her oldest son, Tyler. He died of cancer in 1998 at age 5. Saturday would have been his 22nd birthday. His death was just another crack in Martin's troubled heart, her family told me...

 

[shutterbug22]

http://wane.com/2015/02/13/coroner-ids-2-women-found-dead-in-abandoned-building/

he Lake County coroner has identified two women whose bodies were found in an abandoned Gary building that has been linked to a man charged in the strangulation deaths of two other women.

The coroner on Friday morning said DNA had identified the bodies found Oct. 19 as 53-year-old Sonya Billingsley and 27-year-old Tanya Gatlin. Both were from Gary.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/...cle_6f7de846-dfc0-59aa-ab86-85a51cc3ecdc.html

Wearing a striped Lake County Jail uniform, Darren Vann appeared in court Friday for an omnibus hearing. Lake County Criminal Judge Diane Boswell set a trial date for June 22 during the brief hearing.

Vann, 43, of Gary, faces murder charges in the strangling deaths of Afrika Hardy, 19, and Anith Jones, 35, of Merrillville, according to court records. Vann allegedly confessed to killing five other women who were found in October in abandoned houses, police previously said.

He has not been charged in the deaths of the five other women as of this week.

 

[KateB]

Trial delayed for Indiana man charged with 2 women’s deaths
Associated Press Published: June 5, 2015, 3:54 pm
http://wlfi.com/2015/06/05/trial-delayed-for-indiana-man-charged-with-2-womens-deaths/

Vann was to face trial starting June 22 on murder charges in the deaths of 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy and 35-year-old Anith Jones. The trial is now set to start Jan. 25.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/subur...b-vann-trial-date-st-0606-20150605-story.html

The capital murder trial of a Gary man charged with killing two women has been scheduled to begin Jan. 25...

Vann, 44, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, murder in perpetration of a robbery and robbery resulting in serious bodily injury filed in the strangulation deaths of Afrikka Hardy, 19, of Chicago, and Anith Jones, 35, of Merrillville...

Vann is suspected in the deaths of five other women whose bodies also were found in abandoned houses in Gary, but he has not been charged with their killings.

 

[mayqueen]

Vacant houses remain open where slain women found
Published: August 06, 2015 6:00 am

 

[KateB]

TRUE CRIME: A year ago, a confession that led to six bodies
September 24, 2015 4:00 pm
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/state-...cle_ce0d95bb-83e5-5e47-8968-58442c800919.html

One of the women had been missing for almost a year when last October the alleged serial killer led police to a private burial ground in four abandoned Gary properties several miles apart. Teaira Batey’s decaying body was found inside of a house on the 1800 block of E. 19th Ave. Batey was 28-years-old when she died. Her boyfriend maintains a memorial to her with crosses and flowers that he delivers to the house.
Another abandoned home at 2200 Massachusetts St. is where the body of Tracy L. Martin, 41, of Gary, was discovered. That house too, remains abandoned, though like the other houses described here, it is on the demolition list. Two more bodies were discovered near where the accused killer lived in the Glen Park neighborhood of Gary. Anith Jones, 35, of Merrillville was found dead inside a building in the 400 block of East 43rd Ave. At the house at 4330 Massachusetts St., where Kristine Williams, 36, of Gary, was found dead, a neighbor recalled seeing Williams walking around the neighborhood, listening to music.

The Lake County prosecutor's office is seeking the death penalty against Vann, but at the request of the defense his trial has been postponed until January 25, 2016 at the earliest.

more at link.

 

[colette]

Darren Vann cancelled his request to represent himself at trial. One of his attorneys filed the request for him.


http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/suspected-killer-cancels-request-to-represent-himself/36518966

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/subur...ptb-vann-in-court-st-1219-20151218-story.html

Darren Deon Vann's capital murder trial set to begin in January has been postponed until July 25...

Cappas also scheduled a hearing on a defense request to sever Vann's two murder cases... That hearing will be held Feb. 26.

 

[oldwindow]

any news on him an his trails, 1 should be in motion from what i hear

 

[YESorNO]

Gary serial killing suspect charged in deaths of five more women

"Five new murder charges were filed Monday against a man suspected of killing seven women in Gary.

Darren Deon Vann, 44, already charged with murder in the deaths of Afrikka Hardy, 19, of Chicago, and Anika Jones, 35, of Merrillville, now faces the death penalty in the deaths of five other women..."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/subur...-new-vann-charges-st-0308-20160307-story.html

 

[0101ABA]

Vann's attorneys argue death penalty unconstitutional

It's a question that's been debated in capital punishment cases for years, and lawyers representing an alleged serial killer are presenting it in Lake County: Is Indiana's death penalty law unconstitutional?

As Darren Deon Vann remains in isolation in Lake County Jail, his lawyers argue in a motion filed Aug. 5 in Lake County Circuit Court that it is.

The defense raises two main areas where they say an Indiana Code statute is unconstitutional: how a jury is supposed to weigh factors that could influence a death sentence and allowing a judge to determine a defendant's death sentence when the jury can't.