The case the lists do not carry · Kim White-Stout

MARCH 22, 2011 · LAST SEEN ON MAIN STREET

She was reported missing to this city's police, and her case was solved in the only way the record states — she was found, and finding her opened a homicide file in another state. Kim White-Stout lived in the 200 block of Ardennes Avenue, in Mishawaka. On the evening of March 21, 2011, she was with friends at Bleachers Pub on Grape Road. In the early morning of March 22, walking north on Main Street toward Traverse Circle with a companion, she — in the words the police gave the press of record, from her companion's account — simply disappeared. Her family reported her missing; her niece, Summer White, filed the missing-person's report with the Mishawaka Police Department.

Her body was found in Cass County, Michigan, and the South Bend Tribune's headline on the finding states the ruling: "Woman's death ruled homicide" (2011). The Cass County Sheriff, Joseph Underwood, told the press it was hard to say whether the body had been placed where it was found, but that the sheriff's office did not believe the killing had taken place at that spot, and that his deputies were retracing her steps and gathering background. The investigation was, from that point, Cass County's. No arrest, charge, or later public accounting in her case was reached, in either state's record; her name stands on no state list and in no published appeal that. Mishawaka's share of the case is its beginning — a woman who walked out of a Grape Road pub and partway up Main Street and did not arrive — and that share is printed here whole, at its true size, with the rest of the file acknowledged as another county's to close.

Sources:

1. South Bend Tribune, "Woman's death ruled homicide" (2011) — the Ardennes Avenue address, the evening at Bleachers Pub, the walk north on Main toward Traverse Circle, the missing-person's report filed with the Mishawaka Police Department, the finding in Cass County, and Sheriff Joseph Underwood's statements.
2. Indiana State Police, Indiana Missing Person Bulletin and Bremen District Investigations, read whole November 2026 — the case's absence from the state's standing lists, stated as a finding about the lists.