"Prominent" Suspect Finally Decides It is Convenient to Stop By the Jail and Bond Out

    
      Police arrested an Indianapolis woman Monday in the hit-and-run death of a Greenfield police officer.
Sue Anne Vanderbeck, 61, turned herself in Monday afternoon to the Henry County Sheriff’s Department, said Maj. Derek Towle of the Greenfield Police Department.
     Vanderbeck is charged with leaving the scene of an accident causing death, Towle said. The felony charge carries a standard four-year prison term. She bonded out of the Henry County Jail after being processed, Towle said, adding that his information came from Henry County Sheriff Butch Baker. Vanderbeck’s bond had been set at $10,000.
      Officer William Phillips, 32, was killed early Thursday morning when a vehicle struck his bicycle while he was training with two other officers along U.S. 40 in Henry County just west of Knightstown.
     “We’re relieved that an arrest has been made,” Towle said. “There’s still a long way to go. We realize that. But at least we can start to get some closure.”
      Greenfield, where Phillips lived and worked, is in Hancock County – the county just west of Henry County, where Phillips was killed.
      Henry County Prosecutor Kit Crane did not return a call placed to his office Monday.
Phillips’ funeral is set for 11 a.m. today Tuesday at Greenfield-Central High School, 810 N. Broadway St. The Rev. Adam Detamore of Greenfield’s Realife Church will officiate.
      After the funeral, a procession will carry Phillips’ casket from the high school – likely around 1 p.m. – and head south on Broadway to Main Street. It will proceed west on Main Street before turning back north at Franklin. The procession will proceed east at New Road before turning south at Blue Road. At Main Street, the procession will again head west – this time turning south at State Street and concluding at Park Cemetery, 621 S State St.
      Several ceremonial stops are planned along the procession. The posthumous awarding of a garrison flag to Phillips will occur near Main and Pratt streets. The procession also will stop in front of the Greenfield Police Department, where Phillips will be marked out of service over the police radio frequency for a final time.

(INDYSTAR.COM)