BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) – A coroner says an Indiana University student whose body was found in a rural area died from blunt force trauma injuries to her head.
Brown County Coroner Earl Piper said Saturday he estimates 22-year-old IU senior Hannah Wilson had been dead several hours by the time her body was found.
Authorities have filed a preliminary murder charge against 49-year-old Daniel E. Messel of Bloomington in Wilson’s death. He’s being held at the Brown County Jail.
Police have not disclosed a possible motive or said whether Messel and Wilson knew one another.
The Fishers, Indiana, woman’s body was found Friday morning in a rural area of Brown County, just east of Monroe County, where IU’s campus is located.
Her body was identified Friday night, hours after she had been reported missing.
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Information from: The Herald Times, http://www.heraldtimesonline.com