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Joseph County
The strongest passed-through test available is Samuel Little, because his file is the largest and the most completely published. Little confessed to killing ninety-three women between 1970 and 2005 across nineteen states; he was convicted of eight murders, and the FBI's ViCAP program has confirmed at least sixty of the confessed cases. He died on 30 December 2020. If any drifting killer's pattern were going to brush this ground, his published victim list is the one wide enough to catch it, so the list was filtered for Indiana and then for this county.
Indiana's confirmed Little cases are real, and they are Allen County's. The Allen County Sheriff's Department announced on 8 March 2020 that Little had confessed to two homicides committed there in October 1980 — two women, one night, separate incidents. Valeria Boyd, eighteen, was found dead on 4 November 1980 in the 14000 block of Conners Road, in southern Allen County. Mary Ann Porter, thirty-one, was found dead on 13 December 1980 in the 4600 block of West Wallen Road, in northern Allen County. Both women had been picked up near Maumee and Division Streets in Fort Wayne. That is the pattern this row exists to test — a passer-through leaving two victims in one county in one night — and it happened ninety miles southeast of here, in a different county, on streets the record names.
Against St. Joseph County the Little file returns nothing: no confirmed victim, no confessed victim, and no Little case in the FBI record reached carries this county, either township, or this place. The same filter was run across the corridor cases in the article above — Eyler's twenty-one-case confession list names seven Indiana counties and this is not one of them — and across the I-65 and I-70 series. The passed-through and victim-here test is therefore not an assumption that drifters avoided Granger; it is a negative returned by the widest published list in the record, with the nearest positive ninety miles away and printed whole so the distance can be checked.