IN IN - Carmen Van Huss, 19, Indianapolis, 22 March 1993 *arrest*

[cybervampira]

Video at link.

Cold case victims' families hope, pray for justice

On March 24, 1993, Carmen Van Huss' father paid an impromptu visit to Carmen's apartment after learning she had not shown up to work for a couple of days. Once inside her unit, he found Carmen's body. She had been stabbed. Her apartment was trashed.

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[LifesChaos]

Just want to point out Carmen had a connection to a Waffle House (WH), which has been a common thread in several missing person's and homicide cases. Truck drivers have been known to frequent them, which has lead to speculation in other cases, I can not recall the specifics. If someone else knows which other cases involved people last seen at WH please fill us in.

"At the time of her death, she had been a waitress for about eight months at a Pizza Hut at 86th Street and Westfield Boulevard. She also had worked at a Waffle House." Indiana Unsolved: A new look at rape, killing of Carmen Van Huss, 19

 

[LifesChaos]

Hi, I am new here , and I just wanted to point out that WH and the waffle house Carmen worked for are two different restaurants. She worked for the small local Waffle House , which would later became Sunshine Cafe , not the same . Dont want anyone to mistake that southern chain restaurant that only in the last 10 or 15 years tops opened their doors in the indiana or for that matter Indianapolis . One is more of a truck stop restaurant than the other . The Sunshine Cafe however is more like locals and travelers and some policemen but they aren't a restaurant that is off the highway like the chain restaurant is . So not a lot of truckers like you may think .

Just want to point out Carmen had a connection to a Waffle House (WH), which has been a common thread in several missing person's and homicide cases. Truck drivers have been known to frequent them, which has lead to speculation in other cases, I can not recall the specifics. If someone else knows which other cases involved people last seen at WH please fill us in.

"At the time of her death, she had been a waitress for about eight months at a Pizza Hut at 86th Street and Westfield Boulevard. She also had worked at a Waffle House." Indiana Unsolved: A new look at rape, killing of Carmen Van Huss, 19

 

[dotr]

Hi, I am new here , and I just wanted to point out that WH and the waffle house Carmen worked for are two different restaurants. She worked for the small local Waffle House , which would later became Sunshine Cafe , not the same . Dont want anyone to mistake that southern chain restaurant that only in the last 10 or 15 years tops opened their doors in the indiana or for that matter Indianapolis . One is more of a truck stop restaurant than the other . The Sunshine Cafe however is more like locals and travelers and some policemen but they aren't a restaurant that is off the highway like the chain restaurant is . So not a lot of truckers like you may think .

Welcome to Ws LifesChaos, thanks for the local insight!

 

[Snoop Sister]

Still no new updates Does anyone know if the DNA was ever tested?

 

[Nina Michigan]

Bumping this up for Carmen

 

[MysticJynx]

27 years just passed with no answers! Thinking about Carmen! bumping for her.

 

[Savemecastiel]

Bumping

 

[meanmaryjean]

As previously mentioned, I used to work with Carmen's sister-in-law. (Carmen never met her, she was murdered a few years before Jimmy met his now-wife). She ( my friend) reports the FBI is doing genetic genealogy on evidence from Carmen's murder. I know this is not MSM and if need be please mods delete.

I pray this provides the answers this family deserves.

 

[Cota332]

WishTV (Indianapolis New Provider) is fairly reputable. They're the only ones I have seen saying that the apartment was trashed. If true, that has some interesting implications.

Now, we have little information on the neighbor(s) whom allegedly heard Carmen that night. It could very well be possible that their statements were a fabrication, intended on misleading law enforcement.
Perhaps Law Enforcement themselves knowingly published the neighbors false statements in effort to help ease the mind of a potential POI.

How were the neighbors able to hear the hurried footsteps leaving the apartment in question, but not items being strewn about the apartment?

Why would the killer trash the apartment to begin with? Were they looking for something? Did they trash the apartment in a fit of rage? Was it an attempt to stage a robbery?

Plenty of unanswered questions here, and I would bet that Law Enforcement has a whole lot going on behind the scenes in regards to this case that we aren't privy to.

All the above is purely speculation of my own making, and merely another viewpoint to aid in exploratory investigative efforts.

 

[Nina Michigan]

May justice be served

 

[Nina Michigan]

Boone County man charged with murder, rape in 1993 Indianapolis killing - ABC17NEWS

BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County man is facing rape and murder charges stemming from a 1993 Indiana case. Dana Jermaine Shepherd, 52, faces charges in Marion County, Indiana, including two counts of murder and one count of rape "with deadly force." Boone County deputies and detectives...

abc17news.com

They got him.

 

[BethAnn777]

Dana Shepherd arrested for Carmen’s murder and rape. His current address shows as Columbia, Missouri. I wonder where else he has lived over the years. I wonder if there are any other similar cases in the places he has lived?

Indiana Courts Case Search - MyCase

Indiana Supreme Court, Public Access

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[BethAnn777]

The apartments where Carmen lived were at 8200 Harcourt Rd. Indianapolis.

Looks like Dana lived in the same apartment complex as Carmen. In 1992, his address was 8269 Harcourt Rd. Indianapolis.

Indiana Courts Case Search - MyCase

Indiana Supreme Court, Public Access

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[meanmaryjean]

I am stunned. Grateful to IMPD for never giving up.

 

[dotr]

Dana Jermaine Shepherd, 52,

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Sep 1, 2024
On Thursday, a case was filed against 52-year-old Dana Jermaine Shepherd. He is charged with two counts of murder and one count of rape with deadly force against a woman named Carmen Van Huss.

 

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IMPD officers are discussing the arrest in the murder and rape of Carmen Hope Van Huss in 1993 in Indianapolis.

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The family of Carmen Van Huss expressed relief after authorities made an arrest in her 1993 slaying.

 

[summergirl1]

'We're all very very grateful,' Family of woman slain in 1993 finally get closure in case

The family of Carmen Van Huss is thankful after DNA connected a potential suspect to her murder 31 years after her case went cold.

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[summergirl1]

DNA breakthrough leads to shock arrest in 30-year-old cold case

The father of Carmen Van Huss found the naked body of his 19-year-old daughter with 61 stab wounds in her Indianapolis apartment in March 1993.

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[dotr]

DNA breakthrough leads to shock arrest in 30-year-old cold case

The father of Carmen Van Huss found the naked body of his 19-year-old daughter with 61 stab wounds in her Indianapolis apartment in March 1993.

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From link, ty.rbbm
''A university custodian was 'visibly shaking' as police arrived to conduct a DNA test that finally linked him to the decades-old rape and murder of a teenage art student, it was revealed this week.''

'Carmen's brother said he fears the families of other victims are waiting too long for justice.
'We want all of them to get this treatment,' he said. 'And by that, I mean the DNA genealogy treatment.
'We would love a bill, a law, a procedure - something in Carmen's memory to get the attention other cases deserve.'
'We hope after all this time people understand just how violent my sister's murder was,' her brother told FOX59.
'She was raped and stabbed over 60 times and my dad had to see her like that, blood everywhere, blood on walls, his daughter was naked, laying there, he had to see that. That changed him forever.''