GUILTY IN - Summer Sheese, 25, found murdered, Indianapolis, 9 Aug 2005

Paul Mayes was convicted in Marion Superior Court of murder and sentenced to a term of fifty-five years...

On Tuesday, August 9, 2005, at around 2 a.m., Summer Sheese left the Indianapolis motel room where she had been staying. She told a friend that she would be right back, left on foot, and took nothing with her. Shortly thereafter, Sheese met Mayes...

Mayes claims that when he awoke he found Sheese’s dead body next to his Jeep. He then placed the body in his car and drove around until he reached his grandmother’s house. There, Mayes placed Sheese’s body in the trunk of his mother’s inoperable Toyota Corolla...

An autopsy of Sheese revealed that she had died between twenty-four and thirty- six hours before her body was discovered on Wednesday morning. She died as a result of strangulation, stab wounds, and multiple blunt force injuries.

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