Arrest Made in Hamilton County Case from 1992
ARCADIA, Ind.–On Tuesday, Thomas L. Anderson, Jr., 53, of Arcadia in Hamilton County, was arrested and charged in the 1992 murder of Tony J. Bledsoe, whose beheaded and dismembered remains were found at a dump on a county road about four miles east of Brazil.
Bledsoe had been missing since March 16, 1992 and his body was found April 3, 1992.
His remains were identified through DNA.
Indiana State Police indicated the case is not completely solved.
In October the Atlanta Town Hall, in Hamilton County, was searched and building superintendent Andy Emmert was put on administrative leave.
Reporting from our newsgathering partners at WISH TV, included a statement in a probable cause document from State Police, which cited an interview with Thomas Anderson’s nephew Scottie, incidcating Anderson told his nephew he and Emmert had witnessed the killing.
In the document was a paraphrased summation from a Sept. 2019 interview.
“Scottie told us the entire thing was over Tony hassling Andy about a stolen car. Scottie told us Tommy brought Tony over to Andy’s house and Andy shot Tony in the head with a shotgun. Scottie then told us Andy and Tommy cut up Tony’s body and dumped it off bridges all over the state of Indiana. They cut off his head, hands, and feet and put them in a bucket full of concrete.”
