An Indiana Department of Correction employee who personal notes indicate fantasized about killing people and was inspired by serial killers is a suspect in a stabbing that left two people dead on the west side, according to Indianapolis police and court documents.
Kristen L. Wolf, 28, was arrested Saturday in connection with the May 11 attack, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police announced Tuesday. Wolf, records show, is being held on two counts of murder but has not been formally charged.
Wolf was an employee at Madison Correctional Facility, according to a preliminary probable cause affidavit. IDOC spokesman Dave Bursten confirmed to IndyStar that Wolf was employed at the department from February 2014 until May 22.
"Her employment was terminated based on allegations of criminal actions being investigated by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department," Bursten said via email on Tuesday, directing additional questions to police.
Wolf is a suspect in the murders of Victoria Cook and Dylan Dickover, according to IMPD. Police said Cook, Dickover and a third victim, Elizabeth McHugh, were found with stab wounds at an apartment in the 5600 block of Portsmouth Avenue the night of May 11.
Cook, 24, was pronounced dead at the scene, and Dickover, 28, died later at Eskenazi Hospital, police said. McHugh continues to recover from her injuries.
During a brief interview with police, Wolf denied being in Indianapolis on May 11, a police affidavit obtained by IndyStar said.
The affidavit details accounts of the brutal slaying by two witnesses who were interviewed by police.
One witness, a roommate, told police that she, Cook and three friends — Dickover, McHugh and the second witness — were in the apartment around 8 p.m., Officer Caleb Melloh wrote in the affidavit. The roommate and the third friend later went upstairs.
At some point they said they heard a "loud bang followed by screaming."
The friend then went downstairs, the roommate told police. When he came back up he was looking for a weapon and told the roommate that a woman was stabbing people. A short time later, Melloh wrote, the roommate went downstairs and saw Cook lying on the floor.
The roommate then saw Dickover and McHugh, who were both injured. She called 911 and tried to stop the bleeding, the affidavit stated.
McHugh described the stabbing in an interview with police at Eskenazi. She said there was a "commotion" at the door and then a woman came into the living room dressed in "some kind of uniform" with black pants, a shirt with patches on it and a black knit hat. Holding a knife in her right hand, the woman came at McHugh and started stabbing her in the neck, she told police.
Dickover tried to stop the woman by grabbing her from behind, McHugh said, but the woman turned her knife on Dickover and began stabbing him over her shoulder, according to the affidavit.
When police asked the roommate who might want to harm them, she said that she and Cook had broken ties with a "violent" man. Cook had been dating the man, the roommate told police, and he was "teaching them to kill with knives and axes."
"She said that he trains women to kill," Melloh wrote in the affidavit.
After the attack, the suspect left a hat behind, the affidavit said. Investigators discovered an IDOC patch on it and a tag with the name "Wolf" written on it, the affidavit said.
A DOC internal affairs investigator matched the description of the suspect with the last name "Wolf" and found Kristen Wolf, according to the affidavit.
A search of Wolf's residence in Madison on May 22 found several "combat style knives" and uniforms with patches identical to the patch on the hat found at the crime scene, Melloh wrote in the affidavit.
Investigators also found sheets of paper on Wolf's nightstand in her bedroom that described how Wolf had "wondered what it would be like to kill someone and how she took inspiration from serial killers," the affidavit said.
There was also a short will that appeared to be signed by Wolf, Melloh wrote.
A neighbor identified the man that Cook purportedly had dated as Wolf's current boyfriend, according to the affidavit.
Contact IndyStar reporter Crystal Hill at 317-444-6094 or cnhill@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter: @crysnhill.
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