Indiana 'Slasher' Finally Identified 48 YEARS After Abducting 3 Young Girls!
19.01.2024 - 21:57
/ perezhilton.com
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Police in Indiana have finally confirmed the identity of a man who stabbed three young girls in a cornfield outside of Indianapolis nearly fifty years ago.
On Thursday, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department held a press conference announcing a major break in the case of kidnap victims Kandice Smith, Sheri Rottler Trick, and Kathie Rottler. In August 1975 — when Kandice was 13, Sheri was 11, and Kathie was 14 — the trio were hitchhiking outside Indianapolis when they were wildly and viciously attacked by an unknown assailant. Miraculously, all three girls survived, but they suffered severe stab wounds. And for 48 years, police didn’t know who attacked them — until now.
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At Thursday’s press conference, Unsolved Homicide Unit investigator David Ellison revealed that a man named Thomas Edward Williams is the one who picked up the girls, raped Sheri, and violently stabbed them all. Williams will not be prosecuted, as he is no longer alive; he died in a Texas prison in 1983, according to law enforcement officials. But he lived near the scene of the hitchhiking attack at the time, and he is now confirmed via DNA to have been the assailant.
The horrific encounter occurred on the night of August 19, 1975. The three young girls had gone to a gas station to pick up some snacks. They decided they wanted to hitchhike back home. A man there driving a white station wagon offered them a ride — but he didn’t take them home. As they passed by the girls’ destination and they told him to stop and let them out, he “seemed to accelerate and keep going,” according to Ellison.
At that point, the man put a gun to