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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 Case Homicides Playing Cards — first edition 2008 (45 murders, 4 missing persons, and 1 found body, drawn from 26 counties, cases of 1971–2004), second edition 13 July 2010, third edition 22 April 2013, each a 52-case deck distributed only inside state prison facilities — were tested at the edition level their carriers publish: no Lakeville or Union Township case is identified in any carrier reached for any edition. The test's limit prints with it: the decks' full card lists are not published whole in the reached carriers, and the per-county instrument — the State Police's cold-case pages by county — stands as the continuing settler for a card-level certainty. The index: the St. Joseph County Coroner's Records Index, 1879–1960 stands located at the South Bend Area Genealogical Society (sbags.org) — the record class (coroner's inquests: the county's violent and unattended deaths, 1879–1960) that could open the township's pre-1989 homicide record, and the first-murder article's named settler. It was located, not read,; no entry is claimed from it.
Principal sources: the IDOC/ISP cold-case deck record as carried by the department and press carriers (editions of 2008, 2010, 2013); the South Bend Area Genealogical Society's coroner-index page (sbags.org), located November 2026; the banked this history crime articles.