The convicted sex offender who was named Monday as the suspect in the serial killings of seven women in northwest Indiana – and in perhaps other slayings across the country – allegedly left his victims in vacant buildings in some of Gary’s most blighted neighborhoods, according to authorities. But it wasn’t until the body of a woman was found strangled in a roadside motel in neighboring Hammond on Friday that the authorities were led to Darren Deon Vann, an Indiana native who recently spent five years in a Texas prison for raping and attempting to strangle a woman in Austin. When he was arrested Saturday, Vann told the police that he’d “messed...
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