Muncie woman killed, set on fire identified by police

Muncie, Ind.

The Muncie Police Department said the woman found wrapped in a sheet and set on fire this weekend was 40-year-old Tonia Ingram.  

Detectives said they believe Ingram was killed on Friday night inside a home in the 300 block of North Hackley Street. Her body was discovered the following morning when the fire was reported.

Three suspects have been charged in connection with the homicide. Terry Rutledge, 24, was charged with murder. He was arrested several hours after police discovered Ingram’s body.  Antowyn Warren, 33, and Regina Miller, 36, were charged with assisting a criminal and obstruction of justice.  

According to the probable cause affidavit, Miller told police she and Warren helped Rutledge dispose of the body. In her statement to police, Miller said she had no part in killing Ingram but said she helped “trim the woman’s fingernail and helped in disposing the woman’s clothing, and some of Terry’s, into plastic bags.”  

The probable cause stated Rutledge admitted to killing Ingram and disposing of the body. According to documents, Rutledge confessed to “placing his hands over the woman’s nose and covering her nose so that she could not breathe”.   Additionally, Rutledge said he received a can of gasoline from Warren.

Detectives think Rutledge and the woman killed were friends, but that Miller and Warren did not know her.  Police said they do not have a motive for the murder at this time.

The official cause of death is still pending. 

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