Darren Deon Vann (March 21, 1971 – ) is a suspected American serial killer. He was arrested on October 18, 2014, at the age of 43, for the strangulation death of 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy at a Motel 6 in Hammond, Indiana and has confessed to the murders of six other female victims in Indiana. He led police to those women's bodies, all of which were found in abandoned structures in Gary, Indiana.