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Passed through · 2000
A South Bend man whose crime happened here; entered so that no later telling makes him a Lakeville man. Phillip A. Stroud has no birth, raising or schooling tie to Lakeville, and none is claimed. On 14 September 2000 he and three men from Detroit burglarized an upscale Lakeville home, and the three workmen building a loft in its pole barn — Wayne Shumaker (59), Corby Myers (30) and Lynn Ganger (54) — were tied up, robbed and shot in the head. Stroud was convicted in 2002 and sentenced to death; the Clark County Prosecutor's record carries him "OFF DEATH ROW SINCE 05-25-04." The case reached national screens (Extreme Forensics, "Rooted in Murder," 2010; Forensic Files II, "Dog Proof," 2022). He stands in this section for one reason: to fix his tie at scene-of-crime only, at the place a reader will look for it.