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THE PUBLISHED LIST, AS CHECKED IN NOVEMBER 2026
The Fort Wayne Police Department works its old homicides through a Homicide and Cold Case Unit — the listings name Detective Brian Martin as lead investigator on case after case — and it publishes them, through its Solve the Case partnership, as a board of thirty-four cases. Twenty-nine are open homicides, the cases carried in the four entries that follow this one. One is an open missing-person case, carried below with the county's. The rest of the board is not this section's business: two listings seek wanted fugitives rather than answers about a victim, and the board marks three of its own files solved. The board's reach is worth stating plainly, because it defines what "unsolved" publicly means in Fort Wayne: the oldest homicide on it dates to 1987. No published case on any official list reached falls between the wartime series of 1944–45 and 1987 — not because nothing happened in those decades, but because no agency publishes a list that reaches back into them. The cases in the entries below are printed as the board prints them: victim, date, place, case number. That is the whole of the public record for most of them, and this section does not pretend otherwise. Anyone with information is asked by the department to give it to Greater Fort Wayne Crime Stoppers, (260) 436-STOP — the board exists to be answered.
Sources:
- Fort Wayne Police Department, Cold Cases page, cityoffortwayne.in.gov — the department's statement of its partnership with Solve the Case, Inc., and its link to the department's database there.
- Solve the Case, Inc., Fort Wayne Police Department agency board (34 cases as checked, November 2026) — the listings transcribed in the entries below; the platform's own accuracy disclaimer is quoted in this section's headnote.
- Indiana State Police cold-case listings for the Fort Wayne district, as checked November 2026 — eight cases, none in Allen County.