43-year-old man of Indiana admits to serial killing of at least seven women in Gary

43-year-old Darren Vann of Gary, Indiana, was convicted of a sex offense in Texas in 2009 and his admission to the slaying of one woman in Indiana led the police to the grisly discovery of six other bodies nzherald.co.nz – three of the bodies were on the same block.

It was the death of 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy, a prostitute, whose body was found at a motel – she had been strangled. As per the police, she had arranged to meet Vann at the motel through a Chicago-area website and the death was discovered when someone tried to reach her "was provided suspicious text responses that she believed to be from the suspect while he was still inside the motel room."
Gary in Indiana is located 30 miles southeast of Chicago and was once a thriving steel town and the birthplace of Michael Jackson but over a period of time its population has shrunk and its poverty rate hovers around 40 per cent. Thousands of the homes are abandoned, many of them are often on the same streets where other homes are tidy and well-kept.

During investigations, the police believe the slayings of seven women whose bodies were found over the weekend could be the work of a serial killer, and that the suspect has told them his victims might go back 20 years.