By Steve Lannen
slannen@herald-leader.com
Indianapolis Police are investigating information a man is offering in the disappearance of an Eastern Kentucky University student.
Molly Dattilo, who is from Indiana, has been missing since July 6, 2004. She was last seen in Indianapolis, where she was studying and living over the summer months.
Police are investigating some claims made by a man named John Shelton, said Sgt. Paul Thompson, an Indianapolis Metro Police spokesman on Friday. Shelton is thought to have been with Dattilo on the night of her disappearance
Shelton is in custody on an unrelated charge. Thompson declined to comment on reports that Shelton is offering information in exchange for a plea bargain. He did say that Dattilo’s case remains a missing persons investigation.
Some confusion was created because the lead detective on the case was transferred from the missing persons department to the homicide department but continues to work the Dattilo case, Thompson said.
By Ashlee Clark
aclark@herald-leader.com
RICHMOND — A judge has given prosecutors until next week to provide defense attorneys with more information about the alleged hazing of an Eastern Kentucky University student.
The order was issued after attorneys for EKU students Thomas Barnes and Gabriel M. McLaren and alumnus Alonzo C. McGill said during a hearing in Madison County District Court Thursday morning that prosecutors had provided them with very little of the information they had requested.
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Brent Whiteside
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Thomas Barnes
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Attorney Jim Baechtold, Alonzo McGill and Gabriel McLaren
The attorneys had previously requested a list of names and contact information for the other men who allegedly hazed EKU student Brent Whiteside while he sought admission into EKU’s chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. The attorneys also requested Whiteside’s spring 2008 class schedule.
“It seems to me that the victim isn’t being forthcoming,” said Baechtold, who represents McLaren.
Richmond police say Barnes, McLaren and McGill struck Whiteside with their fists, a paddle and a cane earlier this year, causing kidney failure. Whiteside spent several days at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington.
The men are charged with fourth-degree assault in the case. They have pleaded not guilty.
District Judge William Clouse Jr. ordered that all information requested — or a written explanation of why it is unavailable — be submitted by Tuesday.
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