A man whose abduction and murder last year of Indiana University student Hannah Wilson invoked comparisons to the still-unsolved disappearance of Lauren Spierer was sentenced Thursday to 80 years in prison, People confirms. Daniel Messel, 51, maintains his innocence in the death of the 22-year-old Wilson, but he was found guilty last month of first-degree murder. Messel was sentenced for 60 years and given an additional 20 years as a habitual offender. He plans to appeal his sentence, according to RTV6. Wilson's body was discovered on April 24, 2015, in a grassy vacant lot about 10 miles from the Bloomington campus. She was found hours after her...
- 9/24/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
A man whose abduction and murder last year of Indiana University student Hannah Wilson invoked comparisons to the still-unsolved disappearance of Lauren Spierer was sentenced Thursday to 80 years in prison, People confirms. Daniel Messel, 51, maintains his innocence in the death of the 22-year-old Wilson, but he was found guilty last month of first-degree murder. Messel was sentenced for 60 years and given an additional 20 years as a habitual offender. He plans to appeal his sentence, according to RTV6. Wilson's body was discovered on April 24, 2015, in a grassy vacant lot about 10 miles from the Bloomington campus. She was found hours after her...
- 9/24/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
Through the march of weddings, holidays, good times and bad over the past five years, Charlene Spierer has worked to find the joy and love that bonds her family through the heartbreak of a missing child. "Of course life has to go on," the mother of Lauren Spierer tells People. "We are able to embrace those happy things." But in many ways, time for her stopped in 2011 when Lauren, 20, a bright, beautiful sophomore from Edgemont, New York, who was studying fashion at Indiana University Bloomington, concluded a night of partying with friends and simply vanished. "Your life is so consumed...
- 5/19/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
Through the march of weddings, holidays, good times and bad over the past five years, Charlene Spierer has worked to find the joy and love that bonds her family through the heartbreak of a missing child. "Of course life has to go on," the mother of Lauren Spierer tells People. "We are able to embrace those happy things." But in many ways, time for her stopped in 2011 when Lauren, 20, a bright, beautiful sophomore from Edgemont, New York, who was studying fashion at Indiana University Bloomington, concluded a night of partying with friends and simply vanished. "Your life is so consumed...
- 5/19/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
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