INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - Exactly four years ago, someone got away with murder.
On the anniversary of the crime, police, and the family of Sherese Bingham begged for help and justice. They returned to the scene of the crime - a popular walkway along the White River near New York Street on the edge of the IUPUI campus.
Bingham's brother, Keith Walker, organized the vigil.
"We want to keep praying about it and justice will prevail," he said. "It really will. We just can’t give up."
Bingham was walking her dogs. It was early evening. She was murdered with her own gun.
Her family and friends are pleading and praying someone steps forward and points police in the direction of her killer. Monday, they crowded around Sherese's picture, holding onto candles, each other and hope.
"We know things are done in secret," one woman prayed out loud. "Things are done in the dark, will come to light."
The walkway bordering the IUPUI campus and the White River was dark. There are no known witnesses.
Sherese's brother remembers that night in 2012.
"My life was turned upside down and it's still turned upside down," Walker said.
Bingham's two dogs were so fiercely protective, police and EMS workers couldn't get close to her until Animal Control officers took them away.
"What was in your heart and your mind do to something like that to a human being?" Walker asked.
In 2014, a year-and-a-half later, state police arrested Sherese's husband, Eugene Bingham. Murder charges were later dropped by the prosecutor for lack of evidence. The investigation, ISP Sgt. Rich Myers said, is at a standstill.
"We are asking and pleading with the public to come forward with some sort of information we can have," Myers said.
Sherese's family believes someone will help or at some point the killer will turn themselves in.
"They can't sleep. Their life is not going to go right," Walker explained. "Everything is going to be upside down for them and something is going to break and they can't just hold that in."
Because the dogs were so protective of their owner, detectives believe Sherese Bingham and her killer knew each other. They are counting on that killer saying something to someone and that someone calls Crime Stoppers.
