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The crime corner at its exact size: the parsonage, 29–30 April 1989

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The locations roll named the parsonage without its date; the date stands in the crime file and is printed here at the size the checklist demands. On the evening of 29 April 1989 — LaVille prom night — the Reverend Robert Pelley, his wife Dawn, and Janel and Jolene Pelley were shot dead in the parsonage beside Olive Branch Church; the bodies were found the next morning, 30 April 1989. That pairing — one evening, one morning's discovery — is the dated corner, and the case that grew from it, through the 2006 trial, the 2008 reversal, the 2009 Supreme Court affirmance and the post-conviction affirmance of 13 August 2025, is carried whole in the crime file. The address is printed at exactly the strength the banked build set and this section keeps: the parsonage stands beside Olive Branch Church, and no address beyond the congregation's own published one is printed here — a crime scene that is also a church's house is located by its church, not by a street number, in every file of this build. With the date restored, the locations roll's entry reads whole: a national-fame location, dated 29–30 April 1989, revisited on camera by 48 Hours, its present state not asserted in any banked file.

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Source: The crime corner at its exact size: the parsonage, 29–30 April 1989, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/landmarks/crime-corner-at-its-exact-size-the-parsonage-2930/