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   Daniel Meridy   
      
   An Orleans Parish grand jury handed up indictments against three men who are   
   facing life in prison if convicted on Thursday, including a man accused of   
   abducting and raping a series of women at gun or knifepoint.   
      
   The lengthiest indictment was for Daniel Meridy, a 35-year-old man who   
   authorities say has been linked by DNA evidence to five sexual assaults in New   
   Orleans from 2015 to 2018 and another three assaults in Kansas City from 2004   
   to 2005.   
      
   Meridy was arrested in December after a joint investigation by the District   
   Attorney’s Office and Police Department.   
      
   DNA linked the same unknown assailant to four rapes in September -- but   
   Meridy’s DNA was not yet on file, authorities said. Prosecutors said NOPD   
   Detective Kevin Richardson linked to Meridy to the DNA profile through a   
   license plate one victim reported    
   to police.   
      
   Authorities allege that he raped the women after using weapons to force them   
   to secluded locations across the city.   
      
   Meridy’s total bail now stands at $7.5 million on five counts of aggravated   
   or first-degree rape and five counts of aggravated kidnapping. Authorities in   
   Missouri have not yet charged him, prosecutors said.   
      
   Separately on Thursday, the grand jury charged Tyrone Fountain, 40, with   
   second-degree murder in the Dec. 17 beating of talent agent Marla Belin in the   
   7th Ward. Prosecutors said Fountain became enraged after Belin refused his   
   sexual advances. She died    
   in the hospital 11 days after the attack after slipping into a coma.   
      
   Meanwhile, 40-year-old Erik Beasley was charged with aggravated arson and   
   first-degree murder in the smoke inhalation death of his mother Sarah Beasley,   
   78.   
      
   Investigators suspect that Beasley set fire to his family’s home in the 4700   
   block of Corinne Street on Nov. 23.   
      
   Beasley is currently receiving treatment at the psychiatric unit of the state   
   Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, according to prosecutors.   
   Prosecutors said they do not intend to seek the death penalty against him.   
      
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