Fears of Indianapolis serial killer as the bodies of two women in their fifties including a deaf mother of one are found stabbed to death just a few hundred yards apart in the same week

Fears of an Indianapolis serial killer are growing as the bodies of two women are found stabbed to death just days apart and within blocks of each other.

Shannon Lessere, 58, was found on Saturday, January 27. Just five days later and 150 meters away, Marianne Weis, 52, was discovered.

Police said the two deaths are not officially linked at this time, but they did highlight similarities.

“Both victims lived in or had strong ties to this area on the east side,” Capt. Roger Spurgeon said during a news conference Friday. ‘Both victims died in a similar manner. Both victims were white women in their 50s.”

“We are here out of an abundance of caution to share with the community any information that we can share and to request information that will advance this investigation,” Police Chief Christopher Bailey said during the briefing.

Just five days later and 150 meters away, the body of the second victim, Marianne Weis, 52, was discovered

Weis’ body was found Thursday near a strip mall – less than 500 feet from where Lassere was discovered stabbed to death in the parking lot of a dental office.

It’s unclear exactly how Weis died, but police said they were both “murdered in a similar manner.” had ‘signs of trauma’ on their bodies.

Officers were called to the 2200 block of N Mitthoeffer Rd. just between I-70 and 21st St. for a report of a body last Saturday morning. There they found the body of Lassere, who was deaf, stabbed to death.

Although police say there is no official connection, the victims’ grieving families think otherwise. “If my mother is found and if someone else is found later in the same area, something is definitely going on,” Lessere’s daughter Cecilia told 13 News.

‘I had a bad feeling this morning. I got a hold of my sister and the rest of my siblings and that’s when we got the news,” Lassere’s son Justin Smith told 13News

The call was made by an employee of a nearby business, who reported it FOX59/CBS4 that she saw Lassere’s body in a parking lot she drove to work around 9am.

“She left the house Friday evening around 10:30, 11 o’clock,” Lassere’s son, Justin Smith, told the outlet. ‘I had a bad feeling this morning. I got a hold of my sister and the rest of my siblings and then we got the news.”

‘Funny. Nice. She was disabled. She was deaf. The most amazing woman ever,” Smith added. ‘There was another woman. There was another case that was very similar to my mother’s. So someone is here, someone is doing something here.”

Officers were called to the 2200 block of N Mitthoeffer Rd. just between I-70 and 21st St. for a report of a body last Saturday morning

There they found the body of Lassere, who was deaf, stabbed to death

Weis’ body was found Thursday near a strip mall — less than 500 feet from where Lassere was discovered stabbed to death in the parking lot of a dental office

Although police say there is no official connection, the victims’ grieving families think otherwise.

“If my mother is found and later someone else is found in the same area, there is definitely something going on, and I hope they find justice, and I hope God will certainly punish that person for what that person did,” says Lessere. said daughter Cecilia 13 News.

“If you ever meet her or run into her, you would love to come back and be in her presence,” Lassere’s son, Justin Smith, told the oulet. “She was just beautiful, inside and out.”