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Chivers bond hearing filled with accusations

“You killed my family and you know you did,” Kathy Faulkner exclaimed during her witness testimony Thursday in Whitley Circuit Court, where she was brought to the stand by one of the three Indianapolis men charged in the 2017 triple homicide of her daughter, grandson and...

Investigators paint different picture of killings in Brock murder case

(Editor’s Note: Throughout the trial, Aaron Byers has been referred to by his nickname, ‘Biggs’. For clarity, Aaron Byers is referred to in the article as ‘Biggs’, and Tiffany Byers is referred to as Byers.) Entering the second week of testimony, more than a dozen witnesses have...

COVID no reason to disallow the death penalty

A Whitley County Circuit Court judge has overruled five separate motions, including a motion to exclude the death penalty because of COVID, in Paul Brock’s capital murder case. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login...

2017 murder victim was found with hair tie in his hand, now prosecutors want hair samples from defendants

A Whitley Circuit Judge approved a request Thursday morning for hair samples to be taken from a suspect in a triple homicide for comparison purposes to a hair tie found at the crime scene in the hand of a dead child. Darnel Chivers, 39, Anthony Hester, 34, and Jeremy Hatfield,...
Posted On 31 Oct 2019

Two more Indiana men indicted Monday in connection with 2017 Whitley County triple homicide

A Whitley County Grand Jury indicted two Indianapolis men Monday morning in connection with the 2017 triple homicide of a local family. The grand jury indicted Darnel Chivers, 39, and Anthony Hester, 34, charging them with three counts of murder in the strangulation deaths of...
Posted On 20 May 2019

Three Indianapolis men arrested for murder in 2017 Deep Branch Road triple homicide case

Residents in Eastern Whitley County can rest a little easier tonight knowing that the men believed to be responsible for a previously unsolved 2017 triple homicide have now been apprehended. The last of three Indianapolis men, who Williamsburg police believe was involved in the...
Posted On 18 Jan 2019