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No film, novel or listicle gives Lakeville, Indiana a serial killer — the search for one is itself the article. The fiction test collects claims that exist only in entertainment or aggregation and dispels them on the record. Run for this ground: state-by-state serial-killer aggregations reached assign Indiana's notoriety to its documented cases (Baumeister, Eyler and their like) and name no Lakeville offender; no film or novel reached gives this town a fictional serial killer of its own; and the town's real multiple-murder cases travel in the true-crime record under their court names (Pelley, Stroud), not under any invented killer-name of the "Shovel Slayer" pattern. The one confusion the record does breed is geographic, and it is dispelled here: Larry Eyler's Lake Village victims (Newton County) are not Lakeville's, and any list that drifts them onto this town misreads the map. The fiction limb prints negative: there is no invented killer to dispel beyond the name hazard itself.