KOKOMO, Ind. — Charges filed against a central Indiana murder suspect have been dismissed for a second time in under a year, with the local prosecutor saying it is “in the interest of justice.”
Howard County Prosecutor Mark McCann announced Wednesday that charges filed against a man on trial for murder have been dismissed, again. McCann said this is “in the interest of justice and the integrity of the prosecution.”
Chad Rouse’s family had to wait more than 16 years for an arrest to be made in the 20-year-old Kokomo man’s cold case murder. It then took almost two more years for suspect Kevin Maddox to be put on trial in April, only for the accused killer to have his charges dismissed the same day…