An Indianapolis man has been convicted in the fatal shooting of his father, whose body was found in a suburban storage unit nearly 17 months after his disappearance.
A Marion County jury convicted Jeremy Farmer, 38, of murder Wednesday in the killing of his 58-year-old father, Roger Farmer, who was last seen in early November 2019.
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His body was found in May 2021 in a storage unit in Brownsburg, west of Indianapolis, after an employee became suspicious of the name listed on the unit and contacted police.
A coroner found that Roger Farmer had died of a gunshot wound to the head.
The Marion County Prosecutor's Office said interviews with several of Roger Farmer’s friends revealed that he and his son had a fractured relationship and that Jeremy Farmer had in the past stolen money from his father.
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After Roger Farmer vanished, relatives continued to receive text messages from his phone but they told investigators they didn’t believe he had sent those messages. They said he used a talk-to-text app that made his messages long, run-on sentences, while the new messages had punctuation and emojis.
Jeremy Farmer's sentencing is scheduled for April 28.
