Earl Speller Finally Decided To Set The Body Out For The Trash

**Dakota Valkyrie** · February 15th, 2011, 02:32 PM

Police have arrested a 40-year-old man in connection with a body that was found wrapped in a carpet on the Northside Monday.

Earl E. Speller, Indianapolis, was preliminarily charged with the murder of his roommate, according to an Indianapolis Metropolitan police report. The report identified the roommate, but IMPD spokeswoman Linda Jackson said the family of the roommate has not been notified.

The body was found wrapped in carpeting by a garbage bin at 9 a.m. Monday in the 3700 block of North Meridian Street.

Speller told police he killed the roommate on Feb. 3 and kept the body in his apartment until St. Valentine's Day.

Detectives Bill Rogers and Robert Flack discovered from talking to the maintenance man at the Howland Manor Apartments that the carpeting in which the roommate was wrapped was used in only four apartment units.

The detectives knocked on door Apt. No. 204 and when Speller opened it, the detectives smelled "a strong odor of decomposing flesh," according to the report.

Flack noticed a "large section of carpet that was missing from the living room area," according to the report, and the investigators also saw bloodstains on the floor and walls.

Brown confessed to the killing and said he kept the roommate's body, unwrapped, in the apartment for four days, then rolled him in the carpet and put his body in a closet.
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http://www.indystar.com/article/20110215/NEWS02/102150388/Roommate-charged-slaying-carpet-wrapped-man?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|IndyStar.com

Did he really think the old "roll the body in a rug" trick would fool anyone?

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...135254&sk=wall

Something went wrong. In December her changed his status to "Married" but now listed as "Separated".
And from his wife's page:

Maybe she discovered he's a wackadoodle. It's not her in there because other reports list the body as "36yo male".

**walkingeagle** · February 15th, 2011, 03:26 PM

At least he wasn't obvious?!?!?!?!?!

**Tundratot** · February 15th, 2011, 03:41 PM

Wow! He's fit, isn't he? I bet there are a lot of girls thinking, "Hey, new guy available at the dating agency!"

[Taking a shot at prison groupies. Sorry. I have no idea where that came from. I need a drink.]

**walkingeagle** · February 15th, 2011, 04:21 PM

That pic is fucked up! I'm tripping on those eyes!

**Jerri Blank** · February 15th, 2011, 04:22 PM

Originally Posted by walkingeagle

At least he wasn't obvious?!?!?!?!?!

omg that was my thought too! geez, my two year old could wrap a body better than this guy (my lil Cinderella probably would have cleaned the crime scene too).

**Miss Anthrope** · February 15th, 2011, 04:29 PM

I guarantee he will not get his security deposit back from the landlord.

**Bohring** · February 15th, 2011, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by walkingeagle

At least he wasn't obvious?!?!?!?!?!

Especially with like, a shoe sticking out the bottom.

**MinorAbrasions** · February 15th, 2011, 06:13 PM

They haven't notified the family, but don't you think they know who the roommate was?

**walkingeagle** · February 15th, 2011, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by Bohring

Especially with like, a shoe sticking out the bottom.

Note to self: The next time I roll a body up in a carpet, remove the shoes! They will get you busted!

**Dakota Valkyrie** · February 15th, 2011, 08:19 PM

Since one end is tied, I'm sure the other end was also. They probably untied it and looked inside in order to confirm it's a body. Not that a tied carpet that has a sausage bulge in it is any less obvious...

His mug released:

**Parrot Toes** · February 15th, 2011, 10:36 PM

This is why I always use a duffel bag.

**Gidget** · February 15th, 2011, 11:09 PM

Wait. He left the rug on the ground in front of the dumpster just like the photo? OMFG. That is fucking fantastic.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · February 16th, 2011, 09:14 AM

Hmmmm... several media outlets now calling the victim his "boyfriend". No wonder his marriage was so short. Victim ID'd.

Indianapolis police say a 40-year-old man killed his 36-year-old boyfriend, then kept his body in their apartment for four days before rolling it up in the living room carpet and dumping it in the trash.
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Thompson says Speller confessed to killing Jerry Brown on Feb. 3. Thompson had no details on the motive or weapon.

http://www.wlky.com/r/26884122/detail.html