UPDATE: Boone County Circuit Judge Kimberly Shaw has delayed Dana Shepherd’s extradition hearing until November 14. Boone County assistant prosecutor Merilyn Ferris tells Judge Shaw there has been a delay in getting governor’s warrants. Judge Shaw says this will be the final continuance, indicating the extradition hearing will happen on November 14.
HERE IS OUR ORIGINAL STORY:
An extradition hearing is scheduled for Thursday morning at the Boone County Courthouse for the Columbia custodian charged with raping and murdering a woman in Indianapolis more than 31 years ago.
Boone County Judge Kimberly Shaw has scheduled the 9 am extradition hearing for 52-year-old Dana Shepherd, who remains jailed without bond in Boone County.
939 the Eagle News covered Shepherd’s initial court appearance in Columbia on September 4, when he was arraigned via video. Shepherd is charged in Boone County with the felony of being a fugitive from out-of-state. Shepherd is charged in Indiana with murder and rape for the March 1993 stabbing death of Carmen Hope Van Huss. Shepherd told Judge Shaw in early September that he would submit an application for a public defender to represent him.
Judge Shaw has kept the case at no bond. Boone County prosecutors have described Shepherd as a flight risk.
It had been a cold case until Shepherd was arrested in late August. Indianapolis television reporter Marina Silva of WTHR quotes court documents as saying Van Huss was stabbed 61 times. Court documents say Shepherd lived in the same apartment complex as Van Huss in 1993.
