Indianapolis man arrested after stabbing deaths of 2 women in their 50s

INDIANAPOLIS — Prosecutors filed two murder charges against an Indianapolis man on Friday following the stabbing days apart of two women in their 50s.

Shannon Lassere, 58, was found dead on Jan. 27 and Marianne Weis, 52, on Feb. 1 on the city’s east side, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. They were found dead within a block of each other.

The Marion County Coroner’s Office determined that both died from multiple sharp wounds to the neck.

“No one deserves what these two women went through,” said Acting IMPD Chief Chris Bailey. “This was cruel and malicious.”

Multiple videos from area businesses showed Weis and a man together the night she was killed, the department said.

Detectives tracked down the man Tuesday and the next day a search warrant was executed at the apartment where he had been staying, turning up shoes stained with blood from both victims and jeans soaked in bleach in a bucket in the bathtub, police said.

The man was taken into custody on a probation violation out of LaPorte County and has been in custody since then, police said.