 In 1984, Detective Mel Willsey of the Marion County Sheriff's Department received a call from an inmate at the Pendleton Correctional Facility named Donald Forrester, who was serving a 95-year prison sentence for rape.Forrester said he was involved in the murders and was willing to confess in order to avoid his scheduled transfer to the notoriously violent Indiana state prison.At first the call seemed promising, as Forrester was a career criminal who was living in Speedway when the murders took place, and was not incarcerated at the time.