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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Ind. Law - More on: "Anderson police remain on the lookout for a man believed to have abducted his lawyer at knifepoint"
An update to this ILB report from July 8th, this story from the Muncie Star-Press:
Police on Wednesday night found a sport-utility vehicle stolen Monday from an Anderson attorney after a client left him tied up in a Madison County nature preserve.A 2007 red Ford Escape owned by lawyer Thomas Hamer was found parked on Muncie's south side, outside the Aldi store at 3221 S. Madison St.
On Monday, Hamer was in the process of returning client Richard L. Hudson, 52, of Anderson, to the Madison County jail after a civil hearing in Indianapolis when Hudson allegedly took the lawyer hostage at knifepoint.
Hamer told investigators Hudson left him bound in the Rangeline Nature Preserve on Anderson's east side, the drove away in the attorney's SUV.
Authorities searching the SUV in Muncie late Wednesday said they believed they had also recovered the knife used in the abduction.
Hudson -- who spent more than 20 years in Florida prisons for 1981 armed robbery and assault convictions -- had been in the Madison County jail since June 11.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 10, 2008 10:49 AM
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