Investigators with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department held a press conference shortly after 9 a.m. Friday morning to announce their arrest of a suspect in the horrific death of a freshman from Ben Davis High School.
Fifteen-year-old Dominique Allen was abducted on Aug. 31 while sitting outside of her sister’s house in the wee-early morning hours. After a short search, the teen’s body was found dumped behind a neighborhood house. According to the probable cause affidavit, Allen, “appeared to be ‘hog-tied’ around her neck and ankles with a coaxial cable cord. She had been set on fire and partially burned. There was a plastic grocery style bag over her head.” She had been strangled.
Forty-six year old William Gholston is now under arrest in this case. Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry has filed a murder charge against him. Investigators were led to Gholston when they got a positive hit on his DNA. The suspect’s DNA was matched to evidence collected at the scene and in the neighborhood where other items from the victim had been scattered, including Allen’s hand, foot and sandal.
Curry said it didn’t appear Gholston and Allen knew each other. Gholston was not a person of interest in Allen’s murder until the DNA match, Curry said. Gholston had been in trouble with the law including arrests in a 2002 murder case, where he was later acquitted and on a minor parole violation earlier this month in Bluffton, Ind.
He had been released from prison in May after serving eight years of a 16-year sentence. The lead detective in this investigation was IMPD’s Marcus Kennedy who noted that the Indianapolis community as well as the vigilance of Allen’s family to see that justice was done kept this homicide case alive.
Watch the uncut video from this morning’s press conference below:
(video: courtesy WRTV-6)
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