Todd Keith Roll, 49, was found dead after being shot in the head behind Showplace Cinemas North in Evansville in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2023. Roll had been sleeping behind the theater when the shooting occurred; his body was later discovered in a nearby creek, prompting a homicide investigation by the Evansville Police Department.

Police traced the killing to 22-year-old Brandon Schaefer after he called a woman and confessed to shooting someone behind the movie theater. Officers located Schaefer at his apartment, and he surrendered. He told detectives he did not know Roll and said the killing was random. Schaefer admitted he shot Roll, moved the body first to a dumpster then to the creek, disposed of the firearm in the water, and took some of Roll’s clothing to his apartment.

Schaefer was arrested and charged with murder and held in the Vanderburgh County Jail without bond. If anyone has information about Todd Roll’s last known whereabouts or saw activity around the Showplace Cinemas North that night, please share what you know.