NastyNate
12-12-2003, 06:04 AM
News Story (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,105559,00.html)
An abuse conviction, a murder conviction, and he has struck again. Bastard should have been executed a long time ago.
HAMMOND, Ind. — David E. Maust (search), the man charged with murdering one of three teenage boys found dead and buried in his basement, will be arraigned in court on Friday.
Maust was only charged with one count of murder, though officials said there is an ongoing investigation.
The single murder charge was filed Thursday against Maust, 49, a tenant of the rundown apartment house from which investigators this week removed the bodies of three teenagers who had been reported missing in recent months.
Maust, who has been in police custody since Tuesday, has a criminal record that includes a murder conviction for the death of a 15-year-old boy in Illinois and a conviction in Texas for committing bodily injury to a child, police said.
Lake County Coroner David Pastrick identified the remains found this week as those of Michael Dennis, 13; James Raganyi, 16; and Nick James, 19.
Dennis and Raganyi were last seen Sept. 10 at a home near where Maust lived in the northwestern Indiana city.
About three weeks later, on Oct. 2, police arrested Maust on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, alleging he had given Dennis and a 12-year-old boy marijuana and beer at his home during August. Maust was released on $300 bond the same day and later pleaded innocent to the charge.
Dennis and Raganyi were friends and had visited Maust in his second-floor apartment, where he had given them money, beer and marijuana during the summer, a friend of the boys told detectives.
James was last seen in May but reported missing two weeks ago. He died of blunt trauma to the head, Pastrick said, but strangulation or suffocation were the suspected causes of death for the younger teens.
Maust confessed to strangling Raganyi with a rope while drinking with the teen Sept. 10, a police affidavit said.
Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter declined to say whether any sexual abuse was involved.
Police Chief John Cory would not say whether Maust had talked about the deaths of Dennis and James, or whether investigators suspect anyone else was involved in the slayings.
The link between Maust and the two younger teens caused detectives to search the house last month, where the fresh 8-foot-by-5-foot concrete pad was found in the basement.
Holes were first drilled through the 12-inch thick concrete last Friday. Further digging on Tuesday revealed two of the bodies, wrapped in plastic and tied with cords and tape, a police affidavit said. The third body was removed Wednesday.
Investigators completed their search Thursday for bodies in the house where Maust had lived for about 15 months, said Sgt. Christopher Matonovich, a city police spokesman.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
An abuse conviction, a murder conviction, and he has struck again. Bastard should have been executed a long time ago.
HAMMOND, Ind. — David E. Maust (search), the man charged with murdering one of three teenage boys found dead and buried in his basement, will be arraigned in court on Friday.
Maust was only charged with one count of murder, though officials said there is an ongoing investigation.
The single murder charge was filed Thursday against Maust, 49, a tenant of the rundown apartment house from which investigators this week removed the bodies of three teenagers who had been reported missing in recent months.
Maust, who has been in police custody since Tuesday, has a criminal record that includes a murder conviction for the death of a 15-year-old boy in Illinois and a conviction in Texas for committing bodily injury to a child, police said.
Lake County Coroner David Pastrick identified the remains found this week as those of Michael Dennis, 13; James Raganyi, 16; and Nick James, 19.
Dennis and Raganyi were last seen Sept. 10 at a home near where Maust lived in the northwestern Indiana city.
About three weeks later, on Oct. 2, police arrested Maust on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, alleging he had given Dennis and a 12-year-old boy marijuana and beer at his home during August. Maust was released on $300 bond the same day and later pleaded innocent to the charge.
Dennis and Raganyi were friends and had visited Maust in his second-floor apartment, where he had given them money, beer and marijuana during the summer, a friend of the boys told detectives.
James was last seen in May but reported missing two weeks ago. He died of blunt trauma to the head, Pastrick said, but strangulation or suffocation were the suspected causes of death for the younger teens.
Maust confessed to strangling Raganyi with a rope while drinking with the teen Sept. 10, a police affidavit said.
Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter declined to say whether any sexual abuse was involved.
Police Chief John Cory would not say whether Maust had talked about the deaths of Dennis and James, or whether investigators suspect anyone else was involved in the slayings.
The link between Maust and the two younger teens caused detectives to search the house last month, where the fresh 8-foot-by-5-foot concrete pad was found in the basement.
Holes were first drilled through the 12-inch thick concrete last Friday. Further digging on Tuesday revealed two of the bodies, wrapped in plastic and tied with cords and tape, a police affidavit said. The third body was removed Wednesday.
Investigators completed their search Thursday for bodies in the house where Maust had lived for about 15 months, said Sgt. Christopher Matonovich, a city police spokesman.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.