“Mr. Messel then got up and walked outside the front door, where he retrieved a wooden 2-by-4,” Kellams wrote. “Mr. Messel then returned and began striking her in the head with the 2-by-4, causing a severe laceration to her head which severed an artery on her scalp.”
Connections?
Almost four years ago, another IU student — 20-year-old Lauren Spierer — mysteriously disappeared from the downtown area. BPD Capt. Joe Qualters has received several media inquiries about Wilson’s case and a possible connection to the disappearance of Spierer, who had been partying at Kilroy’s Sports Bar the night she went missing.
Spierer, barefoot and without her phone, reportedly walked alone toward her Smallwood Plaza apartment after a night of drinking and partying early the morning of June 3, 2011. The IU sophomore from New York never returned home. The missing-person case remains unsolved.
Qualters said in a news release Monday that an investigation is already underway into any possible connections to Spierer’s disappearance.
The ISP also is investigating the New Year’s Eve disappearance of 18-year-old Marina Boelter of Bloomfield, last seen leaving her job at the Bloomfield IGA deli. A witness told police she may have gotten into a car a driven by a middle-aged man. No one has seen her since.