State police still seeking help with Daviess County homicide

Indiana State Police are still seeking answers or information about a homicide that occurred near Elnora over the weekend.

On Saturday, September 13, Aaron Byers of Elnora was found murdered along County Road 300 East, one quarter mile south of State Road 58, just west of Elnora.

Detectives and investigators have been working relentlessly pursuing leads and conducting interviews and are still asking for the public’s assistance with the case.

Anyone with information or a possible tip is asked to contact the Indiana State Police Jasper Post by calling 1-812-482-1441. Any information provided has the potential to be critical in solving this case.

Other details concerning the cause of death and the autopsy results are being withheld at this time, due to investigators still using that information within their investigation. No specific timetable has been set for that information to be released.[hr]

Original story:

Indiana State Police are investigating a homicide discovered early Saturday morning one mile west of Elnora.

At 5:09 a.m., a state trooper responded to a call of a traffic accident with injuries on County Road 300E in Daviess County, approximately one quarter mile south of State Road 58. While approaching the scene, the trooper was informed by two pedestrians that they saw a male with injuries walking south along CR 300E.

The trooper drove south but was unable to locate a crash or the injured male. After turning around and checking the area again, the trooper discovered Aaron Michael Byers, 40, Elnora, lying, unresponsive, along the corn field on the west side of the roadway.

Emergency medical personnel and first responders arrived on scene; however, were not able to revive Byers. He was pronounced as deceased by the Daviess County Coroner.

Byers’s vehicle had been driven through the cornfield and crashed into a tree line approximately one quarter mile southwest of where he was found. State Police detectives and crime scene investigators gathered enough evidence to determine that the death was in fact a homicide and was not a result of the crash. The official cause of death will be determined and released pending an autopsy.

The case remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Indiana State Police Post in Jasper by calling 1-812-482-1441.