Security officer assists in homicide investigation www.privateofficer.com
Indianapolis IND. Dec. 31, 2007
Police continued Sunday to search for a missing piece of luggage they say could be evidence in the slaying of a woman whose nude body was found beneath a Near Northside interstate overpass.
The body of Debra Furnish, 48, was discovered Thursday under I-65 on Central Avenue near 12th Street. Police said she had been strangled.
Derek Martin, 34, was arrested Saturday on preliminary charges of murder and confinement.
The luggage is described by police as a 3-to-4-foot black trunk trimmed in gold, possibly left in the area of the 1200 to 1300 block of Central Avenue or the 900 to 1000 block of North Beville Avenue, said police spokesman Lt. Jeff Duhamell.
Anyone with information is asked to call the metropolitan police at (317) 327-3475.
Martin was found after a security guard at Lugar Tower Apartments, 901 Fort Wayne Ave., where Furnish stayed, remembered signing him in.
The guard alerted police, who say they then found images of Furnish and Martin on the apartments' video security system, leaving together.
Several years ago, Martin served two years in prison on a guilty plea to battery, Duhamell said.
Rufus Myers, executive director of the Indianapolis Housing Agency, which operates Lugar Tower Apartments, hopes Martin's arrest increases funding for security in low-income housing projects in the city.
Myers said there wasn't enough money to purchase video cameras on every floor of Lugar Tower, but there is a camera at the entrance.
"This camera has proved its worth," he said of the video system.
"We want to expand it to family and senior housing, but we really need to expand them to all floors," he said.
The body of Debra Furnish, 48, was discovered Thursday under I-65 on Central Avenue near 12th Street. Police said she had been strangled.
Derek Martin, 34, was arrested Saturday on preliminary charges of murder and confinement.
The luggage is described by police as a 3-to-4-foot black trunk trimmed in gold, possibly left in the area of the 1200 to 1300 block of Central Avenue or the 900 to 1000 block of North Beville Avenue, said police spokesman Lt. Jeff Duhamell.
Anyone with information is asked to call the metropolitan police at (317) 327-3475.
Martin was found after a security guard at Lugar Tower Apartments, 901 Fort Wayne Ave., where Furnish stayed, remembered signing him in.
The guard alerted police, who say they then found images of Furnish and Martin on the apartments' video security system, leaving together.
Several years ago, Martin served two years in prison on a guilty plea to battery, Duhamell said.
Rufus Myers, executive director of the Indianapolis Housing Agency, which operates Lugar Tower Apartments, hopes Martin's arrest increases funding for security in low-income housing projects in the city.
Myers said there wasn't enough money to purchase video cameras on every floor of Lugar Tower, but there is a camera at the entrance.
"This camera has proved its worth," he said of the video system.
"We want to expand it to family and senior housing, but we really need to expand them to all floors," he said.
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