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GARY, Ind. With hindsight, there were signs years ago of increasing violence against women by Darren DeonVann, who police said Tuesday has confessed to killing seven women in northwestern Indiana.
Indiana court records from 2004 describe him grabbing a woman in a chokehold, dousing her with gasoline and threatening to set her on fire. He was sentenced to a year in prison.
In 2009, he was convicted in Texas of raping a woman. She told police that when she went to his apartment in Austin he knocked her down and began to strangle her, hit her several times in the face and said he could kill her, court records show. Hpatagonia better sweater ion bluee served time in prison until last year, when he was released and moved back to Indiana.
In both cases, the charges against Vann were reduced as part of plea bargains, and Texas officials dpatagonia black hole 90 revieweemed him a low risk for violence. He registered as a sex offender in Indiana and police made a routine check in September that he lived at the address he provided.
He was not on our radar at all, Gary Police Chief Larry McKinley said at a news conference Tuesday, adding that Vann was never suspected of taking part in homicides in the days or months before his arrest.
Now Vann is charged with the strangulation death of one woman, and police say more charges are expected in a few days after he directed them to the bodies of six more. He will appear in court Wednesday for the first time since his arrest ovepatagonia houdini pullover reviewr the weekend.
Several families who have missing relatives have called since the bodies were discovered to ask if their loved ones might have been killed by Vann, said another Gary officer, Cmdr. Del Stout.
Family and friepatagonia ebay storends of victims said police should have known the 43 yearpatagonia locations new york old Vann was a threat and taken reports of women disappearing more seriously.
Victim Teaira Batey s mother, Gloria Cullom, said she called Gary police constantly looking for information about her daughter and never heard back.
I m trying to find out, Have you heard anything. Do you have any information for me? Nobody ever called me back, Cullom said. I don t think that they really did anything as far as looking into the situation with the information that we was giving to them, he said.
The familpatagonia outlet reno nv directionsy filed a missing person report on Batey in late January after she had been missing for nearly three weeks.
Cullom told police her daughter suffered from schizophrenia, was HIV positive and had a cocaine habit. She had last been seen leaving with a male friend she called Popeye.
Clinton said the family knew something had gone terribly wrong when they didn t hear from Bateypatagonia down jacket packable review, who has a 2 year old son with Clinton and had given up prostitution several years ago to focus on being a mother.
McKinley defended police handling of the reports.
We take every report seriously, he said.
Vann appeared to keep a low profile and follow the rules after serving a prison sentence for sexually assaulting the woman in Austin.
He registered as a sex offender in Indiana in July 2013 after he moved to Gary, said Patti Van Til, a spokeswoman with the Lake County Sheriff s patagonia everlong review gpsDepartment.
Vann registered again in Indiana this past July, putting him in compliance with a state law that requires sex offenders to re register at least once each year, she said.
Detectives with the sheriff s department last checked on Vann on Sept. 14.
He had registered and complied with the requirements, Van Til sapatagonia everlong review 7thid. We had the appropriate response from him.
But some others who knew Vann found cause for concern.
Edward Matlock, his former stepson, said Vann creeped me out and would talk to himself while staring in a different direction.
Matlock said his mother and Vann lived in an area of Austin known for prostitution and drugs, and Vann would sometimes go walking around late at night. His mother told Matlock that Vann was just hanging out with friends. But now Matlock wonders.
You know Norman Bates, frpatagonia guide pants in frenchom the movie? That was him, a strange guy, said Matlock, referring to the Alfred Hitchcock character in the movie Psycho.
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