Indiana man sentenced to 55 years in state prison for beating man to death
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An Indiana man will spend about 50 years of his 55 year sentence in state prison for beating and murdering a 22 year-old man. Ethan Cain worked with two others to rob Drake Smith.
The victim, who was from Summitville, was found dead in May 2018 by mushroom hunters inside the Frances Slocum Forest, the Kokomo Tribune reported.
According to court documents, police said Cain and fellow defendants Joshua Kean and Brittany Morris were involved in a plot to rob Smith of drugs and money. That plot allegedly led all four to the state forest, where police say Cain and Kean beat Smith to death with a metal pipe.
Police said Cain, Kean and Morris then fled the scene with Smith’s clothing, cash, drugs, beer and a small speaker. Mushroom hunters found Smith’s body in the woods the same day he was slain.