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The raised-here test: no Lakeville-raised offender whose series belongs elsewhere

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The home-grown test was negative; the raised-here test is a different question, and it is negative too. A town can produce a serial killer without hosting his series — the Charlie Brandt pattern, raised in one place, killing in another. Tested as its own class for this ground: neither of the township's two multiple-murder men fits it — Jeff Pelley was of this town and his single event was here; Phillip Stroud was a South Bend man whose single event was here (lk-rem-crime, stated exactly there) — and no other Lakeville-born or Lakeville-raised name appears as a serial offender in any carrier reached: not in the state's serial-case record as surfaced, not in the FBI's published serial-case material reached, and not in the press record of the town's own people. The class prints as a searched negative at reached strength. Residue, stated: ViCAP itself is a law-enforcement system, not a public register; the public settler remains the Tribune file and the state police serial-case record, and a raisings-case documented only there would not have surfaced.

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Source: The raised-here test: no Lakeville-raised offender whose series belongs elsewhere, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/serial-killers/raised-here-test-no-lakeville-raised-offender-whose-series/