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An unsolved file should end with its closures, and this section's closure run was made honestly. For St. Joseph County, no solved-after-decades case appears in the record reached: no county file in the lists, rolls, and press record read for this section was closed by a DNA hit, a genealogy identification, or a late confession after decades open. Nor does this ground carry a corrected vanishing — a famous "unsolved" story the record later showed never happened; the stories leg dispels legends, and a dispelled legend is not a vanishing corrected, so the class stands empty rather than stretched. The Crime Stoppers roll's older county cases, for their part, remain open on the roll itself: Ada Haradine, who disappeared in 1985 and whose remains were found in 1988 near Birch Road and U.S. 12 in Cass County, a blow to the head, hundreds of leads run, unsolved; and Wesley Poindexter, killed 12 May 1999 in the 55000 block of Country Club Drive west of the South Bend city limits, a county police case, unsolved.
The region's closures exist, and they are printed at boundary size so the shape of a closing is on the record without borrowing another county's ending. Allen County's April Tinsley case ran thirty years: an eight-year-old abducted, raped, and murdered on 1 April 1988 in Fort Wayne, her killer leaving taunting notes in 2004, and John Miller, fifty-nine, arrested in 2018 on DNA and forensic genealogy. The Laurel Jean Mitchell case ran longer: a seventeen-year-old killed on 6 August 1975 in Kosciusko County ground, and Fred Bandy Jr. and John Lehman arrested on 6 February 2023, forty-seven and a half years later, on a State Police laboratory evidentiary correlation. La Porte County's Juanita Boyd case closed on a name rather than an arrest: reported missing 22 February 1981, found dead by asphyxiation in the trunk of a green Pontiac, her suspected killer, Carl David Phillips, identified by DNA in July 2026 — forty-five years on — having died in La Porte County on 24 September 2017, before the identification. Those are the honest endings this section can show: real, dated, and other counties'. For this county and this ground, as of November 2026, the open files named in this section remain open, and the record is printed that way because that is what the record says.