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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 years, the post-conviction denial affirmed 13 August 2025; the case stands whole in the remainder file and is cited, not re-told. 2000: the Stroud triple murder (14 September 2000) — life without parole on the 2005 plea; likewise banked whole. The officer-killing limb was tested against the two registers that keep such rolls — the Officer Down Memorial Page and the Indiana Law Enforcement Memorial — searched: no Lakeville town marshal and no Union Township officer appears in either, a searched negative printed at searched strength. 2001–2026: no third case joins the roll; the high-profile roll of the remainder file stands at exactly two, confirmed by this walk. The era table's lesson prints plainly: this township's murder history is two nights, and this section's honesty is in the quiet around them.
Principal sources: the banked this history lk-rem-crime and lk-rem-crime-tests (the two cases whole, the roll of two); ODMP and the Indiana Law Enforcement Memorial, searched November 2026; the county histories as read for this build.