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Where no department board exists, the era run is made from the lists that do exist — the State Police list, the older state deck, the Crime Stoppers roll, and the banked crime record — and each era is stated, including the empty ones, so no decade is silently skipped. The first decade of the modern record, the 1970s, holds one flagged entry: the McDonough recovery in Clay Township in 1974, flagged in the article above, its CDP seat unsettled. The 1987–89 bucket holds no case on this ground: the county's cold cases of those years live on the Crime Stoppers roll and are South Bend and Elkhart cases — the 1988 Theresa Burns homicide that the 2002 Cold Case Squad was built around among them — and none is seated in the CDP. The turn of the century holds the Groves case of 2003, a county case in Union Township, on the older state deck and off the current district list. The 2006–09 bucket holds no CDP case in any list read. The 2014–19 bucket holds no CDP case in any list read. The 2020–25 bucket holds exactly one: the Heritage Square shooting of 20 June 2021, still open as of November 2026, carried in the banked crime fragment and in the omission article below. The era shape is therefore not a wall of cases thinning toward the present; it is one flagged 1974 recovery, long empty stretches at the CDP line, and a single open case in the current decade.