A 64-year-old Indianapolis man has been charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found in Brown County last fall after his DNA was found on her body.

Paul Fox was charged Sept. 8 with the murder of 38-year-old Angela Weisheit, also of Indianapolis. Her body was found by a deer hunter under a bridge near the intersection of Bell and Bean Blossom roads on Nov. 21 last year.

She had been stabbed multiple times and was bound with duct tape, according to the probable cause affidavit filed last week.

Three DNA profiles were collected from her body and clothing. One of those profiles returned to Fox and his DNA was found in, and around, the stab wounds along with on the duct tape and on a piece of the victim’s clothing, the affidavit states.

Indiana State Police Det. Ian Matthew and Det. Tim Cummins investigated the murder and were able to establish that Weisheit had been at Fox’s home at least two times on the Friday she was murdered.

The victim’s mother told police she had dropped her daughter off at a gas station near Fox’s home to be picked up by someone else to go babysit. Her mother did not know where she was going to babysit and did not ask who she was babysitting for, but the victim’s boyfriend later told police Weisheit was going to babysit for a man named Paul on Nov. 20, the affidavit states.

The boyfriend did not know Paul’s last name. Weisheit’s last conversation on her cell phone was with her boyfriend later that Friday afternoon and she told him she was at “Paul’s” house babysitting. She ended the conversation because “his niece just got there,” according to the affidavit.

At that same time, police used cell phone records to determine that Weisheit was instead picked up by a relative’s boyfriend. Using statements from different interviews, including the relative’s boyfriend, police determined that Weisheit was dropped back off at Fox’s home later that evening.

While conducting surveillance on Fox’s home police reported seeing a silver Mercedes-Benz. It was was the only vehicle on the property registered to Fox and active with the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

A second DNA profile found on the victim’s clothing returned to a woman who was arrested at the same time as Fox on a Level 5 felony for assisting a criminal. Formal charges have not been filed against her at press time.

Police also believed the Mercedes-Benz had evidence of the crime in it because the body was transported a “considerable distance” from Indianapolis to rural Brown County.

Using the information gathered police executed a search warrant on Sept. 1. They conducted a traffic stop on Fox and took him into custody for questioning.

Fox told police he had known “Angie” since around 1995 and considered her to be a close friend. Fox said he also used to date Weisheit.

Fox then began accusing others of murdering Weisheit and told police he thought it was a “shame that women around the area were being killed or dying.”

In his interview, Fox told police Weisheit had been at his home the afternoon of Nov. 20. He had picked her up at a house and brought her back to his home. After some time at his home, Fox said he dropped Weisheit off at another home or nearby liquor store, but could not remember exactly where.

After dropping her off that afternoon, Fox told police that was the last time he saw Weisheit and, to the best of his knowledge, he did not leave his home again for the rest of the night.

Fox also denied knowing the woman whose DNA was also found on the victim’s clothing.

Police asked Fox if he and Weisheit had any issues or confrontations the day she was murdered. Fox said they did not and that they “never had issues.” He then also described situations where he had asked Weisheit to not come to his home due to her behavior.

Fox said he had heard Weisheit’s body was found in Avon and that he never tried to research what happened to her on the internet further other than hearing rumors.

He also told police that he had not been to Brown County since the 1960s when he came to visit with his family. He said he did not have any family or friends in the area.

When asked if he was sure Weisheit did not return to his home the evening of Nov. 20, Fox said it was possible she could have came back over, but that he was having a difficult time remembering due to his age and how much time had passed.

Fox denied murdering Weisheit and said it was impossible for any DNA to be found on her body that was not related to the consensual sex the two had early in the day Nov. 20 while Weisheit was at his home.

When told his DNA was found near the wounds and on the duct tape Fox implied that the police had planted his DNA. He said that the ISP and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department were in a conspiracy to “get back at” him, the affidavit states.

He continued to deny any involvement with her murder and continued to accuse another man.

Fox was arrested and transported to the Brown County Jail where he was booked in on no bond Sept. 2.

Fox’s initial hearing was Sept. 8 in Brown County. A preliminary plea of not guilty was entered on his behalf. He is being represented by Indianapolis attorney Ranissa Dycus. She was not available for comment by deadline.

A jury trial has been scheduled for Jan. 19 next year.