A Crothersville couple was killed died in a four-vehicle wreck that left U.S. 50 east of Seymour closed for nearly three hours Friday evening.

The wreck also left a woman hospitalized with a leg injury in Indianapolis.

According to an Indiana State Police report, 24-year-old Tiffany Whillhite and 27-year-old Christopher Muncy were killed. They were married in April.

Chelsea Bowling, 27, of Seymour was treated and taken by personnel with Jackson County Emergency Medical Services to Schneck Medical Center in Seymour. She was then flown by helicopter to the IU Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.

According to police a 2007 Ford 150 pickup driven east on U.S. 50 by 65-year-old Larry Jacobs, of Commiskey, slowed because a motorist in front of him was making a turn.

Bowilng, also driving east in a red 1997 Chevrolet Silverado, hit the rear of Jacobs’ truck. The truck then crossed the centerline and hit the brown 1999 Hyundai Willhite was driving west.

Police say, the Silverado pushed the Hyundai off the road, into the ditch. The truck then landed on top of the Hyundai leading to the deaths of both Willhite and Muncy.

A 2012 Chevrolet van being driven east on U.S. 50 by 32-year-old Jacob Simmons, of Seymour then struck a tool box, which had come off of the 1997 Chevy Silverado.

Jacobs and Simmons did not report any injuries.

Morgan Jackson of Charlestown was crowned Miss Indiana 2015 and Audrey Ferguson of Evansville was crowned Miss Indiana’s Outstanding Teen Saturday night at the Zionsville High School Performing Arts Center.

Jackson, 21, competed as Miss Harvest Homecoming and is a student at the University of Louisville.

Morgan’s platform is “Project Impact: If not you, then who?” and her talent is lyrical ballet. She won preliminary awards for talent, lifestyle and fitness in swimsuit and interview. Morgan will serve as Miss Indiana for the next year and will represent Indiana at the Miss America Competition, in Atlantic City, NJ, in September of 2015.

First runner-up to Miss Indiana was Miss Collegiate North Rose McClimans, 22, of South Bend; 2nd runner-up was Miss South Bend Kathleen Raab, 24, of South Bend; 3rd runner-up was Miss Indiana University Lauren Mnayarji, 21, of Terre Haute and 4th runner-up was Miss Central Indiana, Gracie Lyons, 23, of Elkhart.

A record 35 young women between the ages of 17 and 24, from all over Indiana, competed this week in three preliminary nights of competition in talent, lifestyle and fitness in swimwear, evening wear and onstage question, and all had a ten-minute private interview with judges. From this, a Top 10 group of finalists was named at the beginning of Saturday’s competition.

No decision was made Wednesday in the request by the defense to move the trail of Daniel Messel out of Brown County.

According to police, 49-year-old Messel of Bloomington was arrested after police found his cell phone near the body of 22-year-old Indiana University student Hannah Wilson. On April 24, Brown County Deputies found Wilson’s body near Plum Creek Road and State Road 45 after a woman driving on Plum Creek Road saw Wilson’s body face-down in a vacant lot. An autopsy determined Wilson died from blunt force injuries to the back of her head.

On May 22, Messel’s attorney, Dorie Maryan, filed a motion requesting a change of venue.

She cited her client cannot receive a fair trial from impartial jurors in Brown County because of public outrage over the offense, public hostility against the defendant, and news stories that reprimand Messel and disclose “otherwise inadmissible evidence.”

During the hearing, Maryan mentioned connections made in the media of Messel to the disappearance of Lauren Spierer and the murder of Jill Behrman. Spierer went missing from Bloomington in June 2011 and has not been seen since. Behrman went missing from Bloomington in 2000 and her remains were later found in Morgan County in 2003. John Myers II was convicted of her murder and is serving time in prison

Brown Circuit Judge Judith Stewart took the change of venue request under advisement and will issue a ruling later. She said it is unlikely that news of the crime is contained to Brown County, and that any adjacent county would have significant media exposure to the crime as well.

Prosecutor Ted Adams argued the defense motion was “premature” in his opposition to the defendant’s request saying “public hostility” and “outrage” could not be determined until potential jurors were questioned by the court. He stated this case will continue to be newsworthy and will generate publicity no matter where it goes to trial.

The next hearing on the case is scheduled for July 22.