Media Release:

May 30, 2013

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Lara Beck (317) 727-0016

Serial rapist Quanardel Wells sentenced to 100 years

Conviction for summer 2009 assaults on 10th Street
(Indianapolis, Ind.) -- After two days of trial and less than four hours of deliberation on May 22, Quanardel Wells was found guilty of the 2009 sexual assaults of four women. Today, Wells was sentenced to 100 years in the Indiana Dept. of Correction for the crimes. During the summer of 2009, Wells confined, raped, tortured and abused four prostitutes. He threatened the victims with deadly force and strangled one victim while sexually abusing them. In 2010 he was convicted for the 2008 sexual assault of a 16 year-old-girl, who was walking home from a friends house on a school night when Wells abducted her. The charges related to the other four victims were tried last week. The conviction of Quanardel Wells struck at the very chord that motivates law enforcement to work the difficult cases, sometimes spending years to get the justice every victim deserves, Prosecutor Terry Curry said. Deputy Prosecutors Eric Schmadeke and Charnette Garner, along with Victim Advocate Pat Fitzgerald and IMPD Detective Laura Smith, all worked tirelessly to ensure that they collectively put an end to the victimization of women by Quanardel Wells. The jury convicted Wells on all counts as charged: two counts of Criminal Deviate Conduct (Class A Felony), one count of Rape (Class A Felony), two counts Criminal Deviate Conduct (Class B Felony), two counts of Criminal Confinement (Class B and Class C Felony), and one count of Strangulation (Class D Felony). Wells new sentence will run consecutively to the 80 year sentence he is currently serving in the Indiana Dept. of Correction for the 2010 conviction. In each of his current convictions, Wells targeted prostitutes as his victims. From 1998 to 2005, he was acquitted by multiple juries on five cases involving major felony sexual assault and robbery. In all cases, he pitted the victims word against his own and convinced the juries that the acts were consensual. -30-