Indiana Double Homicide: Bodies Possibly Of Mother, Toddler Son Found In Evansville Home, Investigation Underway

Investigation was underway after the bodies of a woman and a toddler were found at a home in Evansville, Indiana, on Wednesday (April 22).

Officials with the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office responded to a home in the 300 block of Bob Court Drive around 5.30 p.m. after receiving a report of a dead person. The responding officers found a woman lying motionless in the garage of the home. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding said the woman’s body was found with "obvious trauma" to her face and body. The officers then found the body of a toddler in a bedroom.

Information regarding how long the bodies were in the home before being discovered by the officers was not known. The deaths were being investigated as possible double homicide and no suspect was taken into custody as of Wednesday night.

“The Vanderburgh County Coroner's Office responded to the scene and is assisting with the investigation. The identities of the deceased will be released by the Coroner's Office. A search warrant was obtained and the home is being processed for evidence. No suspect has been identified at this time,” a press release from the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office said. Autopsies were scheduled for Thursday.

The relationship between the woman and child was not known, however, Wedding believes they were mother-son.

"You get called out to something like this, you have a probably mother and a young child deceased; so it's disturbing," he said.

The incident comes days after an Indiana man was charged with murder in connection with the death of two men. The bodies of two men, later identified as 62-year-old Fred Bissel and 41-year-old Jason Dush, were found inside an apartment on April 12. Investigation revealed that another man, identified as 56-year-old Kenneth Hoskins , lived with the two men in the apartment. Hoskins was taken into custody. During interrogation, the accused confessed to the crime and said he got into a heated argument with the two men following which he attacked them with a knife. He was charged with two counts of murder and placed in the county jail in Kalamazoo.