Daniel Messel, the man convicted of murdering IU student Hannah Wilson, has now been charged with the 2012 rape of another student after DNA evidence from .
The IU Police Department filed five felony charges against Messel on Friday after DNA evidence collected from the 2012 crime was found to be consistent with DNA collected from Messel, according to an IUPD release.
Messel, who is serving an 80-year sentence for Wilson’s murder, now faces charges of rape, criminal confinement, criminal deviate conduct, battery and theft.
In 2012, the victim told police she met a man she did not know at a local establishment and was driven against her will to a parking lot near Griffy Lake where the man beat and sexually assaulted her.
The man left her in the parking lot and drove away with some of her belongings. The student walked to a nearby house to ask for help and police collected evidence from the victim and the scene, according to the release.
The woman could not remember specific details about the crime or describe the suspect or his car in 2012, according to the release, but she contacted police in August 2016 to discuss similarities between her case and the Wilson case.
Nyssa Kruse
