Man who strangled 75-year-old realtor to death and left her in the basement of her home pleads guilty

Inset left: Jamerus Parkman (Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office). Inset right: Susan Haynie (Obituary). Background: The location successful Evansville, Indiana, wherever authorities accidental the sidesplitting occurred (WEVV/YouTube).

After a 75-year-old Indiana pistillate was recovered strangled to decease successful the basement of her home, a antheral has admitted to the crime.

Jamerus Parkman, 35, has pleaded blameworthy to murder successful the decease of Susan Haynie, arsenic good arsenic burglary, Vanderburgh Superior Court records reviewed by Law&Crime show. The suspect is owed to beryllium sentenced connected Dec. 2.

The Evansville Police Department says that connected Aug. 27, 2025, astatine astir 5 p.m., it was called to a location connected the 3300 artifact of East Gum Street successful Evansville. The metropolis sits connected Indiana's confederate borderline with Kentucky.

Haynie lived successful the home, and officers arrived to find her dormant successful her basement. Police said the pursuing time that they had a "person of interest" — aboriginal revealed arsenic Parkman — successful the case.

Investigators said they judge Parkman entered Haynie's location done an unlocked doorway earlier sidesplitting her, country CBS and Fox affiliate WEVV reported. It was seemingly a signifier for the suspect — arsenic helium was convicted of burglary, robbery, and attempted rape successful a transgression spree betwixt 2008 and 2010.

According to the outlet, Parkman was paroled successful February 2025 aft serving 13 years of a 35-year sentence, months earlier Haynie was killed.

Parkman was arrested, and constabulary said grounds tied him to the crime, specified arsenic a tablet that showed helium was successful Haynie's gait astir the clip she was killed. He primitively pleaded not blameworthy earlier changing his plea connected Friday, according to tribunal records.

Haynie was "a beingness nonmigratory of Evansville," according to her obituary, and she "combined her heavy roots successful the assemblage with her nonrecreational expertise to supply clients with personalized and caring service" arsenic she was a section realtor.

The obituary adds: "Susan volition beryllium remembered not lone arsenic a dedicated existent property nonrecreational but besides arsenic a cherished person whose generosity and tone touched everyone who knew her. Susan had a peculiar acquisition and committedness to crook each accidental to entertain into an unforgettable experience. Time and again, she stepped successful to marque her friends' lives overmuch much joyful."

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