Staff Reports
SEYMOUR — The 62-year-old Seymour man accused of stabbing a woman to death on the morning of Sept. 26 at Jamestown Apartments told police he “blacked out.”
Daniel Lee Baldwin was arrested shortly after police received a 911 call from a woman reporting she had found 74-year-old Sandra Luedeman lying bleeding in the hallway of an apartment building at 725 Miller Lane in Seymour.
Officers responding to that report attempted to administer first aid to Luedeman who had been stabbed seven times, but the attempts to save her failed, according to the probable cause affidavit signed by Detective Michael Henley and filed Thursday in Jackson Circuit Court. Baldwin remains in the Jackson County Jail in Brownstown on a murder charge.
Shortly after the first 911 call, Seymour dispatchers received a second 911 call about a male, later identified as Baldwin, flagging down traffic at Oak Street and Jackson Park Drive near the Jamestown Apartments, police reported
During that 911 call, Baldwin could be heard saying “I don’t have a knife. It’s on the pavement. I am not a threat.”
He then told a dispatcher that he may have stepped on a woman’s dog and she started to yell at him and said something about calling the cops, Henley wrote.
Officer Bernard Petro responded to the area of Jackson Park Drive and Oak Street and arrested Baldwin, who said he had stepped on the leash of the woman’s dog when he went to check his mail. Both Luedeman and Baldwin lived in the same building.
Baldwin told Petro when the woman started yelling at him he had “blacked out.”
Baldwin later said he had “brain issues” from an incident that had happened in the past where he had killed his stepfather with a pickax, Petro said in his report. A check of court records show Baldwin has not had a prior arrest in Jackson, Jennings or Bartholomew counties in recent years and has not served time with the Indiana Department of Corrections.
He also told Petro he could not remember if he had stabbed or cut Luedeman.
An autopsy conducted Tuesday at Schneck Medical Center showed Luedeman had died as a result of multiple stab wounds.
