March 21, 1971 - Darren Deon Vann
Vann's case drew particular attention not only for the seven murders to which he confessed, but for the institutional failure that preceded his arrest — a pattern of similar killings in the Gary, Indiana area had been flagged by researchers years earlier, with warnings to local police that went unheeded. The murders of women whose deaths might otherwise have gone unconnected were identified through statistical analysis before law enforcement acted, raising persistent questions about which victims might have been spared.
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Darren Deon Vann (born March 21, 1971) is an American serial killer. He was arrested on October 18, 2014, for the murder of 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy at a Motel 6 in Hammond, Indiana and has confessed to the murders of six other female victims in Indiana. He led police to those women's bodies, all of which were found in five abandoned structures in Gary, Indiana.
Before the police investigated the murders for which Vann was detained, Thomas Hargrove, founder of the Murder Accountability Project, together with a Gary, Indiana deputy coroner, attempted to persuade police that there were 18 similar murders pointing to a serial killer in the Gary, Indiana area.
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