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The statute that took a victim's name: searched for, and not found

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No Indiana law carries the name of any Lakeville victim — the Aubree's-law pattern was tested on both cases and returns negative. The multi-victim cases themselves stand whole in lk-rem-crime: the Pelley family (Bob, Dawn, Janel and Jolene Pelley, 1989) and the Stroud victims (Wayne Shumaker, Lynn Ganger and Corby Myers, 2000), printed as the court record carries them. The statute limb asks whether any act of the Indiana General Assembly, or any provision of the Indiana Code, took a victim's name from either case — the pattern by which a child's name becomes a law's short title. Searched on the victims' names: no act, code section, or enrolled bill naming a Pelley, Shumaker, Ganger or Myers law, act or fund was found in the state's legislative record as reached, and no carrier reached styles any Indiana statute by a Lakeville victim's name. The keeping these cases actually received was of another kind — broadcast and appellate (the keeping article below) — and the statute page prints empty at the strength of the searches named, with the General Assembly's own acts index as the settler that governs it.

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Source: The statute that took a victim's name: searched for, and not found, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/murders/statute-that-took-a-victim-s-name-searched-for/