BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) – The southern Indiana man facing a preliminary charge of murder in the slaying of an Indiana University student has a criminal record of violence, including against woman.
The Herald-Times reports (http://bit.ly/1GwFQVU) 49-year-old Daniel Messel of Bloomington was arrested more than 25 years ago after a girlfriend told police he battered her and on allegations that he beat his grandmother and broke bones in her face.
Messel pleaded guilty to one of three battery charges in 1993 and received a 30-day suspended jail term and six months' probation.
In 1996, he received the maximum eight-year sentence on a felony battery conviction.
Messel's now charged in the death of 22-year-old Hannah Wilson of Fishers. Authorities say her body was found Friday in Brown County after she was struck in the head.
