Local murder gets national attention

2005 murder in LaGrange county still unsolved


Updated: Sunday, 14 Dec 2008, 10:56 PM EST

Published : Sunday, 14 Dec 2008, 10:36 PM EST



MONGO, IND. (WANE) - The search for answers in a local murder is getting beefed up. In October of 2005, Terry and Darleen Anderson were beaten to death inside their Mongo, Indiana home. That's in Largrange County.



Now, America's Most Wanted is featuring the double homicide on their website. Terry Anderson's daughter -- Sherry Musilek -- has been persistent about finding the murderer.



Awhile back, she started a foundation and also put up a billboard. She's hopeful this extra attention from America's Most Wanted will help solve the crime.They contacted the sheriff and asked them, and so I knew about it eight months ago, but I didn't know when or if it was going to happen," Musilek said, speaking on the phone from her home in Chicago.




She found out it would be on the website of America's Most Wanted in an e-mail the day before Thanksgiving. The case has only been on the website of America's Most Wanted for a few days. Musilek is hopeful that the case might be featured on the TV show.



A $20,000 reward is still being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer. Terry Anderson would have turned 63 on Sunday. Musilek says she and her late father shared the same birth month.



That fact, along with the Christmas holiday, makes this time of year even more difficult she says. But, Musilek says that the coverage from America's Most Wanted is encouraging.