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Crime History
Crime History: Whole
The Pelley course, at crime-leg strength. The Rev. Robert Pelley took the Olive Branch pastorate in 1986; on the evening of 29 April 1989 — LaVille prom night — Bob, Dawn, Janel, and Jolene Pelley were shot dead in the parsonage…
The crime leg's banked strength is its two great cases; its audit rows are everything around them — the county's first courts, the marshal line before 2012, the dry years, the counts that do not exist. This addendum digs the frame: courts and jail at county strength, executions on the state's own list, the seized-liquor scandal at its documented size, and the official-count negative proven rather than assumed.
First courts, first jail, first officers — the county frame and the township's own
St. Joseph County's justice begins in a trader's house and a tavern room, and its first courthouse cost $3,000. The county was organized by act of 29 January 1830, effective 1 April 1830, out of Cass County; the first county seat…
The marshal line before 2012: the shortfall, printed expressly
No marshal of Lakeville before 2012 is named in any source this build has read, and this article is this section's express statement of that shortfall. The record as it stands: the state's Gateway salary record carries Patrick J.…
The first-murder test: nothing before 1989 in any carrier reached
No first murder, no first murder trial, and no saloon-era killing is recorded for this township in any carrier reached — the documented homicide record opens in 1989. The test was run where such a record would live: neither…
Executions for county crimes: the Jones/Grzyb pair, on the state's own list
The state's execution list opens with a St. Joseph County hanging, and this county's pair closes its local course in 1928. The Indiana Department of Correction's official list, "Indiana Executions 1897–Present," read first-hand…
The dry years: the seized-liquor scandal at its size, the township limb negative
South Bend's dry-years scandal was a resale market in confiscated liquor run by its own enforcers — and no bootlegging case on Lakeville ground surfaced beside it. The Indiana Historical Bureau's account names the market's…
Murders and officer killings, era by era: two cases and a searched silence
Walked era by era, the township's homicide record is: a long quiet, then two cases eleven years apart, then a quarter-century quiet again. 1830s–1988: 1989: the Pelley murders (29 April 1989) — charged 2002, convicted 2006, 160…
The drug era in the federal record: searched negative, and a name-collision printed
Attorney releases and the federal carriers, searched November 2026
No federal drug case names Lakeville, Indiana, or Union Township in the carriers reached — and the one Lakeville drug case the federal record does carry is Massachusetts'. The search ran over the U.S. Attorney's release record…
The homicide counts: the official series does not carry this town
Lakeville files no crime statistics with the FBI — the counts circulating under its name are models, and this article is the proof and the warning. The negative is quotable, and it is quoted: the AreaVibes carrier, presenting the…
Crime records: the cold-case decks and the coroner index
The state's cold-case decks were checked card-class by card-class, and the coroner's index was located — neither yields a Lakeville case at reached strength. The decks: the Indiana Department of Correction and State Police's Cold…