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Confessed serial killer says he began 20 years ago

Police in Gary, Ind., have been searching for more bodies after a suspected serial killer helped find six dead women.

By Frances Burns

GARY, Ind., Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The man suspected of killing at least seven women in northwest Indiana told investigators his first killings were committed 20 years ago.

Darren Deon Vann of Gary, Ind., has so far been charged with one murder. He was arrested Saturday after the body of Afrika Hardy, 19, was found in a Motel 6 in Hammond.

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During the weekend, police found six more bodies in abandoned houses in Gary. Police said the women, only three of them identified so far, had been killed in the past 17 months.

Vann provided the information that helped police locate the bodies.

"He was very specific on the locations, very specific about what transpired at each location and how they were concealed," Gary Police Det. Cpl. Edward Gonzalez told WLS-TV in Chicago.

Police have been searching other abandoned houses looking for more bodies. They are also trying to determine if unsolved killings or missing women can be linked to Vann.

"We're getting calls from all over, all over the country from relatives of missing individuals wanting information," Lake County Sheriff John Buncich told WLS-TV.

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Vann, a former marine and convicted sex offender, is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in the Lake County Jail.

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