After a just about six-month-long seek, lacking Indiana 17-year-old Valerie Tindall was once discovered only a hundred yards from her anxious folks’ entrance door, hidden within a selfmade field on her landscaping boss’ assets subsequent door.
Patrick Scott was once charged with homicide and booked into Rush County Prison on Tuesday night after the lady’s frame was once came upon.
Tindall’s reason for dying has but to be decided, in keeping with the Rush County Sheriff’s Division. The stays have been definitely recognized as Tindall’s by means of the county’s coroner on Thursday, WTTV reported.
Scott additionally faces obstruction of justice and false informing fees, in keeping with court docket paperwork got by means of Fox Information Virtual, stemming from previous false accounts he gave to police.
The court docket paperwork divulge that Scott confessed to police that he strangled her with a belt, which he endured to put on after the truth, within the bed room of his house on June 7.
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Patrick Scott, 59, is charged with homicide within the dying of his landscaping worker and neighbor, Valerie Tindall. (Rush County Sheriff’s Division )
“I put it round her neck and I held onto it till she hand over,” Scott allegedly informed police.
The accused killer informed investigators that Tindall had attempted to seduce and blackmail him into purchasing her a brand new automobile, in keeping with court docket paperwork.
The killing “simply roughly took place,” he mentioned. When requested if he “hated” the lady, he defined to police that the 2 had a pleasant courting and did issues outdoor of labor, like buying groceries and going out to consume.
When requested if he was once stricken by means of the homicide on his arms, Scott allegedly mentioned that he “wasn’t too loopy about it.”
He allegedly buried Tindall in a field crafted from two-by-fours and strand forums. He informed the police that prior to he constructed the field, he saved Tindall’s frame in his administrative center.
Greater than 40 brokers descended on Scott’s Arlington assets on Tuesday, a few of whom “straight away” noticed orange-painted fingernails on Tindall’s frame that matched the nail colour she sported in her closing social media photograph posted on June 7, the day she was once closing observed, in keeping with court docket paperwork.
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Valerie Tindall, 17, mowed lawns for Patrick Scott’s landscaping trade. The 2 have been “pals,” her mom mentioned, and regularly hung out in combination outdoor of labor. (Rush County Sheriff’s Division )
A 2nd buried field reportedly contained VHS tapes and miscellaneous forms. It’s unclear what the contents of those paperwork have been. Scott informed police he have been the usage of the field to “put s— in” since July.
Investigators with the sheriff’s division discovered data appearing that Scott bought the forums at a House Depot in Greenfield on June 7.
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Scott, who paid Tindall to mow lawns for his landscaping trade in the summertime, was once a relied on neighbor to the lady and her circle of relatives.
“She and him had a bond – they have been pals,” Tindall’s mom, Shena Sandefur, informed WRTV-TV. “She labored for him, however she additionally frolicked together with his circle of relatives. His granddaughter was once her good friend, and we went puts with them.”
Then again, Sandefur informed FOX 59 that she started to really feel uneasy about the best way the older guy was once treating her daughter.
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Valerie Tindall’s mom informed FOX 59 she had moved from Indianapolis to rural Arlington to break out from violence within the town and lamented that, within the procedure, she moved subsequent door to the lady’s “predator.”
Sandefur mentioned Scott acted like a “jealous boyfriend” or even tracked the teenager’s telephone. Then again, Tindall didn’t see anything else unsuitable with the connection, she mentioned, as a result of Scott was once her boss.
Tindall’s mom informed the hole that any other particular person overheard Scott telling Tindall he was once going to take her to Indianapolis for lunch “somewhere particular” on June 7, prior to she vanished.
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Her deserted car was once later discovered parked in Shelbyville. Scott, who have been observed riding the automobile, informed police on the time that he moved the car for the lady prior to she were given into his garden care truck, in keeping with FOX 59.
He claimed on the time that he dropped Tindall off in Homer, kind of 5 miles from their group, and she or he were given right into a automobile with an unknown male. FOX 59 reported Scott was once prior to now charged with false informing after telling conflicting tales to investigators.
No longer lengthy after Tindall disappeared, Scott was once noticed tearing down and burning his storage within the wee hours of the morning. The field that contained the teenager’s frame was once reportedly discovered within the rubble of the storage, Fox 59 reported.
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On Oct. 11, in keeping with court docket paperwork, police searched Scott’s assets with cadaver canine. The animals reportedly indicated the presence of human stays at a pond at the guy’s assets, however no stays have been exposed. Canine handlers later informed police that water is understood to carry smell, in keeping with WTTV, and that the wind may have carried the smell to the pond.
The wind was once blowing from the route of the burnt-down storage that day, police famous of their file reviewed by means of the hole.
“Evident floor disturbance” was once additionally famous on a flyover of the valuables performed on Oct. 12, in keeping with the hole.
The sheriff’s division would no longer explain to FOX 59 whether or not new proof or pointers ended in Tuesday’s seek of Scott’s assets. Fox Information Virtual was once not able to succeed in the administrative center for remark at press time.
Scott informed police after his Tuesday arrest that his spouse and daughter “have no idea not anything” about his confessed homicide of Tindall, in keeping with court docket paperwork.
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In a Wednesday interview with FOX 59, Sandefur lamented her choice to transport her daughter to rural Arlington from Indianapolis, a transfer they made to “break out from violence” within the greater town.
“[But] we moved around the side road from her predator,” Sandefur informed the hole.
The girl informed the hole her daughter was once a “actually excellent particular person” and a “candy child” who had skilled trauma at a tender age.
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“She labored onerous to get her grades up, she was once gonna cross to university, she was once authorized and now she’ll by no means have the danger,” Sandefur mentioned. “I sought after to get her lend a hand and she or he would not and I believe [Scott] took benefit of that.”
Rush County Sheriff Allan Rice mentioned that even if Scott is at the back of bars, the case is “some distance from over.” Investigators proceed to look the person’s assets to assemble proof for the person’s prosecution.
The dept is reportedly nonetheless looking for out pointers from the neighborhood and someone who can have noticed the lady with an older guy in Shelbyville on June 7.
