A Bremen man faces murder and other felony charges in the beating death of a 15-year-old Bremen girl.
Desi Jones’ body was found on Friday, Dec. 19 by a man walking his dog a just off of 5th Road in rural Marshall County, according to court documents. Fabian Roman Rubio, 20, also of Bremen, is charged with murder, sexual misconduct with a minor and abuse of a corpse in connection with Jones’ death. During a news conference, Marshall County Prosecutor Nelson Chipman said investigators needed to determine the cause of death.
Dental records were used to make a positive identification.
Jones’ father reported her missing the day she was found. Rubio and Jones lived by each other near Lake of the Woods in Bremen. They had been in contact with each other through electronic messaging the night prior, and the day of her death, according to court documents.
Chipman said Rubio left for Crown Point the same weekend Jones’ body was found. Indiana State Police investigators questioned him when he returned.
“During that interview, he stated that he had washed his truck before he left town. Officers went to the public parking lot of the post to look at the exterior of the truck. They detected in plain view with their training and experience was a blood stain on the rear license plate. Subsequent laboratory analysis of that stain concluded that it was consistent with a DNA profile of Desi Jones.”
Investigators got a search warrant for Rubio’s house and seized other items, some of which tested positive for Jones’ blood.
Rubio has been charged with murder and felony charges of sexual misconduct with a minor and abuse of a corpse. He has been in custody in the Marshall County Jail since Dec. 21, 2014 on charges in an unrelated case and was read the warrant containing these charges Monday morning while detained in the jail.
Chipman said this case included assistance from several departments to come to this point in the investigation.
“Meticulous evidence gathering and analysis, interviews of dozens of people, search warrants for electronic devices and cell towers – thousands of hours have now brought us to this point.”
