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A probable cause affidavit was filed with the Brown County Circuit Court Monday morning. The affidavit revealed that the cellphone of Daniel Messel was located Friday morning near the body of IU student Hannah Wilson. Through an interview with Gerald Messel, Daniel’s stepfather, Indiana State Police were told Daniel left his home at 8 p.m. Thursday to play trivia at Yogi’s Bar and Grill in Bloomington, something Gerald reported Daniel did almost every Thursday. Messel didn’t return home until Friday, when he was later arrested at his home by the Indiana State Police. Upon visual inspection, police reported what appeared to be claw marks on Messel’s forearm. He was carrying a plastic garbage bag that, upon inspection, was filled with clothes. Through witness reports conducted by ISP, Wilson was at a party at the Hilton Garden Inn when she and her friends decided to walk to Kilroy’s Sports Bar at approximately 1 a.m. When they arrived, her friends decided she was too intoxicated to enter Sports and discussed calling an Uber car.
Messel charged with murder, trial date set for July 22
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Wilson and Messel’s timeline last Thursday and Friday HANNAH WILSON
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Hilton Garden Inn Witness accounts from two of Wilson’s female roommates and two male friends place Wilson at a party in room 101. Witnesses stated Wilson was consuming alcoholic beverages.
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5284 Plum Creek Road At approximately 8:34 a.m. Friday, the Brown County Sherrif’s Office receives a call from Carol Bridges that she found a human body at this address. Later that day, Brown County Coroner Earl Piper verifies the deceased female is IU student Hannah Wilson.
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Kilroy’s Sports Bar Around 1 a.m. Friday, Wilson and friends decide to leave the hotel and walk to Sports. Her friends decide she is too intoxicated to enter the bar and seek a ride home for her.
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Flowers lay on the field near where Hannah Wilson’s body was found.
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Yogi’s Bar and Grill Daniel Messel leaves his home around 8 p.m. Thursday to attend trivia at Yogi’s Bar and Grill with friends, something he did almost every Thursday night, according to reports from his stepfather Gerald Messel.
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6181 W Ison Road Friday afternoon, police arrive at Messel’s home and encounter him walking out of the residence with a plastic garbage bag filled with clothes. Messel is then transported by Bloomington State Police Post No. 33.
Daniel Messel, 49, appeared in Brown County Circuit Court via video conference for his initial hearing Monday. He is charged with one count of murder for the death of IU senior Hannah Wilson, who was found dead Friday morning. An autopsy declared her death a homicide by blunt force trauma to the back of the head. When the hearing began, Messel sat alone at a table in an empty room inside the Brown County Jail. He stared straight into the camera that connected him to the Brown County Courthouse just a half mile away. Dressed in a shortsleeved shirt of thick black and grey lines, he rose his right hand and swore to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help him God. Behind him on the SEE TRIAL, PAGE 6
SOURCE PROBABLE CAUSE AFFIDAVIT GRAPHIC BY ANNA BOONE | IDS
COURT DATES TO KNOW Jury trial 8 a.m. July 22, 2015 Pretrial conference 1 p.m. July 6, 2015 Omnibus July 1, 2015 Initial pretrial May 28, 2015 Bail hearing 10:30 a.m. May 15, 2015
Student recalls House bill could increase pressure on jail train, car accident IDS INVESTIGATES HEALING AND PUNISHMENT
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He was in his friend’s room on the sixth floor of Eigenmann Hall when he looked out the window. Within a second, IU freshman Ryan Hobart saw a white Audi inch onto the train tracks near 10th and Union streets. Within that second, a train struck the driver’s side of the vehicle. Just after midnight Monday morning, a train traveling west collided with a car traveling south on North Union Street. When Hobart saw the collision from his window, he and his friends sprung into action, rushing to the scene. “From the moment of impact I could tell it was going to be serious,” he said. “It was a strong hit. I knew it needed swift attention.” Hobart and his friends were the first to arrive on the scene. His friend Stephan Addington approached the vehicle. They found a young woman laying on her back about two or three feet from the door. Hobart said she was responsive, moaning and complaining of abdominal pain. They couldn’t tell if she was thrown from the vehicle or had gotten out of the vehicle herself. Addington, a Red Cross First Aid Emergency Care trained responder, conducted back and spinal checks on the woman. “She was shocked and SEE TRAIN, PAGE 2
A House bill making its way through the Indiana legislature could squeeze already limited space for inmates in the Monroe County Jail. House Bill 1006 would funnel state dollars to county corrections programs and make it more difficult for circuit courts to send felons
to prison. On April 14 the Indiana Senate unanimously approved the bill, which would allow for $80 million in local programs including mental health and addiction services for low-level offenders. The legislative session ends Wednesday. The bill is the latest in a series of state legislation shifting responsibilities from state prisons to county jails. It would provide funding in response to changes to the state
criminal code, which could lead to more inmates in jail rather than prison. According to these new rules, as of June 2015, no one convicted of a level 6 felony can be sent to prison if his or her sentence is for less than a year. Judge Kenneth Todd, a Monroe County circuit court judge, said he thinks these changes could mean the county will have to deal with 140 more offenders per year than it
would normally. Bill Wilson, the former Monroe County jail commander, said he thinks that estimate is conservative. “I think they are really going to feel the squeeze,” Wilson said. Data collected by the Indiana Daily Student shows that each year during the past five years the jail has faced a growing number of days SEE JAILS, PAGE 6
Monroe County Jail faces more days each year with higher inmate numbers Every day of the jail population in Bloomington from 2010 through 2014
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