Police have defended their conduct in the case of a man who has confessed to killing seven women, amid fears there may be more victims.
Darren Vann is due in court charged with strangling one woman in Hammond, with more charges expected after he directed them to the bodies of six more women in nearby Gary.
Court records from 2004 show he was jailed for a year after grabbing a woman in a chokehold, dousing her with petrol and threatening to set her on fire.
He was convicted of raping a woman in Texas in 2009 and had only just been released from jail when he moved back to Indiana last year.
Vann also registered as a sex offender in Indiana and police made a routine check in September to make sure he lived at the address he provided.
But Gary Police Chief Larry McKinley told a news conference: "He was not on our radar at all."
He added that Vann was never suspected of taking part in murders in the days or months before his arrest at the weekend.
Texas and Indiana authorities have been searching through cold-case files and missing person reports to determine if there are more victims.
Family and friends of victims said police should have known the 43-year-old was a threat and taken reports of women disappearing more seriously.
Victim Teaira Batey's family filed a missing person report in late January nearly three weeks after she disappeared.
Her mother, Gloria Cullom, said she had repeatedly attempted to report the matter to police in Gary.
She said: "I'm trying to find out, 'Have you heard anything. Do you have any information for me?' Nobody ever called me back."
But Mr McKinley defended the actions of police.
"We take every report seriously," he said.
Vann appeared to keep a low profile and stay on the right side of the law after serving his prison sentence.
But Edward Matlock, his former stepson, said Vann would talk to himself while staring into the distance.
He said his mother and Vann lived in an area of Austin known for prostitution and drugs, and Vann would sometimes go walking around late at night.
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