BURLINGTON – Walter Sartory spent his last days alive, drugged and duct taped to a chair in Willa Blanc’s basement, a detective testified Monday. After the 73-year-old reclusive millionaire died, his body was stuffed into a trash can then burned, he said.
Meanwhile Blanc was using a Power of Attorney supposedly signed by Sartory to drain the millionaire’s investment accounts, Detective Coy Cox testified Monday during a preliminary hearing for Blanc and her son Louis Wilkinson.
Blanc, a housekeeper with a love of Corvettes, was hoping to get at least $7 million of Sartory’s money, Cox said.
Blanc, 47, and Wilkinson, 27, are charged with kidnapping, tampering with physical evidence, abuse of a corpse and knowing exploitation of an adult. If convicted of kidnapping they could face the death penalty.
On Monday, Boone District Judge Michael Collins set bond for each at $10 million. Collins also ruled that the case can be presented to a grand jury.
Sartory was last seen alive on a surveillance camera at Fifth Third Bank in Hebron on Feb. 17. Investigators think he died soon after and his body was burned Feb. 22 inside a trash can in Indiana. Authorities are still working to identify the remains found in a wooded area in Morgan County Indiana on March 13.
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