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The campus row asks whether a single-institution case — a killing inside one school or workplace, unsolved — belongs to this jurisdiction, and if so, whether it belongs to this ground. The jurisdiction has exactly one, and it is carried here at boundary size. Helen Tobolski, sixty-two, had worked thirteen years as a Notre Dame custodial employee, a maid in Grace Hall who took extra hours cleaning academic buildings. On the rainy Saturday morning of 22 March 1975 she was shot once, at close range, in front of her left ear, in the university's aerospace engineering building, a one-story structure just north of what is now the Joyce Center. Notre Dame Magazine's fiftieth-anniversary account calls it, in terms, "the only known murder on campus in Notre Dame history. And 50 years later, the killer has never been found." Across the hall, a chalkboard carried a message: "2-21-75 the day I died" — the date on the board a month off the actual date, 3-22-75. University President Father Theodore M. Hesburgh offered a $5,000 reward. The initial report was taken by St. Joseph County Police Corporal Charles Eby; Deputy Coroner Dr. Louis Grwinski ruled the death a homicide; campus security chief Arthur Pears recorded that nothing had been touched. The evidence is still stored among boxes of decades-old unsolved cases, and county police Captain Aaron Santa states the files have recently been reviewed for DNA-era reopening — and that Tobolski's is not one of the three cases that were reopened. She is buried in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, South Bend. The Notre Dame campus stands in Portage Township, South Bend, outside the Granger CDP line; the case is this jurisdiction's campus case, printed whole, and it is not this ground's. A neighboring death is not folded into it: Elizabeth "Lizzy" Seeberg, a nineteen-year-old Saint Mary's College freshman, died by apparent suicide in September 2010 after reporting a sexual assault by a Notre Dame football player; her death was ruled a suicide, not an unsolved murder, and the two cases are not the same class.