This is a link to a connected case that has recently been covered in MSM. Several of us have known about this but it can now be discussed. Hoping to have a thread created for this, unless there is one already, if anyone knows.
Suspect in Kentland torture-murder case tied to strangulation death weeks earlier two counties away
Suspect in Kentland torture-murder case tied to strangulation death weeks earlier two counties away
Dave Bangert Lafayette Journal & Courier
Published 2:24 PM EST Dec 28, 2019
Ray Hanish, 49, a nurse living in Reynolds, was found dead in his home on March 17, 2019. The coroner has ruled his death a homicide.
Photo provided
"KENTLAND, Ind. – The November morning a bailiff escorted Garett Kirts, a Lebanon 21-year-old shackled and dressed in an orange jumpsuit, into Newton Superior Court, Dottie Hoagland-Hanish had squeezed into one of two rows of the gallery already filled with more than a dozen people in light blue T-shirts printed with a hashtag #justicefornicole.
Hoagland-Hanish was a mismatch in a white T-shirt with big block, rainbow letters.
She’d made the two-hour-plus drive from Warsaw with her daughter, Roxanne Collins – who had come from her home in North Carolina, there in an identical white T-shirt – knowing she’d have to explain the message across her chest, “Justice for Ray,” and what it had to do with a murder case on another side of Indiana, in another time zone.
When her son, Ray Hanish, died in March at age 49, his body found in his Reynolds duplex days later, there were no accounts in a newspaper in or around the White County town 25 miles north of Lafayette. Nothing on TV, either. Nothing much on social media, even. The initial word she received was that Hanish, a nurse at a nursing home in Monticello, had died of natural causes.
“It didn’t add up,” Hoagland-Hanish said.
Months later, in September, Ray Hanish’s death certificate was released by the White County coroner. Under the manner of death section, the coroner put a checkmark next to “Homicide.”
The cause of death: “Asphyxia due to ligature strangulation.”
The how and the why still are sketchy from official sources.
Sgt. Kim Riley, spokesman for the Indiana State Police post in Lafayette, said results of an ISP investigation into Hanish’s death were turned over to the White County prosecutor. Beyond that, Riley said he wasn’t in a position to share details of what police suspect happened to Ray Hanish.
What the family knows from the prosecutor is that Kirts – charged in Newton County, jailed and waiting a trial in connection with the strangulation death of Nicole Bowen, a West Lafayette mother of two found dead in late March a few miles from Kentland – was somehow tied to Ray Hanish’s death, as well."
More at link above.
Gosh I hate that photo of him. He almost looks like he's smirking. What an evil man.
I wonder if there are additional victims of ligature strangulation committed by this and his cronies? Seems to be his preferred method of murder.
I sincerely hope the families of the victims get the justice they deserve!
The photo I was referring to is the one in the article posted of the suspect in the orange jumpsuit. (If you scroll down under the heading "
