ANDERSON, Ind. —
The Madison County Sheriff’s Department has recovered what it believes to be the remains of Roy L. Parmley, 53, who is wanted in the fatal shooting of Amanda Wiles, 31.
Sitting about 250 to 300 yards from the 6400 block of West 100 South, behind a cornfield, is a gravel road and treeline. It was there deer hunters were setting up cameras when they spotted what they believed to be a body, Sheriff Ron Richardson said Sunday evening.
Dispatch received the call at 3:57 p.m. Sunday and police headed out to the site where they did find a partially decomposed body.
“Investigators are very confident with the items found (with the body) that it is Roy Parmley,” Richardson said.
While confirmation will have to come from the coroner’s office, Richardson said investigators would be surprised if it wasn’t him.
The search for Parmley has been ongoing for nearly two months, since Amanda’s death June 9. According to the probable cause affidavit in the case, Amanda and her mother, Terri Wiles, had found Parmley waiting for them inside Amanda’s home with two shotguns.
Parmley was the estranged boyfriend of Terri Wiles.
He bound both women to chairs with duct tape and, according to the affidavit, “Terri Wiles stated Roy told her he was going to take something away from her that she loved more than him.”
Amanda Wiles died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to Madison County Coroner Ned Dunnichay.
Since then, the Sheriff’s Department has been traveling two avenues: Parmley was either alive and dangerous, or had committed suicide.
The location of the remains was about three miles from Wiles’ home.
Richardson said the department is “hoping and praying” to get that confirmation so that police may lend closure to the family and friends of Wiles.
Since her death, Amanda’s closest friends and family have formed Mandy’s Wish, an organization devoted to raising awareness of domestic abuse. They have also held several events in memory of Amanda.
The search for Parmley had also been featured on the nationally televised “America’s Most Wanted.”
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Investigators come out of a field in the 6400 block of West 100 South with the body of a partially decomposed male Sunday afternoon that the Sheriff's Department believes could be the remains of Roy L. Parmley. John P. Cleary
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Investigators load up the body of a partially decomposed male Sunday afternoon found in a wooded fence line in the 6400 block of West 100 South that the Sheriff's Department believes could be the remains of Roy L. Parmley. John P. Cleary
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A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Roy L. Parmley, left, in connection with the shooting death of Amanda Wiles early June 9 near Lapel.
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