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1985–1990 · TEST ENTRY
The home-grown test is negative. No serial offender born, raised, or based in Mishawaka stands in the record reached. The name the open web attaches to this city, Herbert Baumeister, belongs to Westfield in Hamilton County — his Fox Hollow Farm stood there, and nothing in his documented record touches Mishawaka; the association is a search-engine error, printed here once so it can stop traveling. The activity test — whether a serial offender worked this ground — returns one documented suspected tie, printed at suspicion strength because that is where the record leaves it.
Thomas Lionel Rohr, 41, manager of a Mishawaka coin shop, was killed on August 28, 1985, during a robbery of the shop. Investigators linked the killing by its pattern — a coin dealer, shot, his shop robbed — to Charles Thurman Sinclair, the offender the databases call the "Coin Shop Killer," and the link stands in Michael Newton's Encyclopedia of Serial Killers and the case databases built on it. Sinclair was arrested in Alaska on August 16, 1990, and charged with at least eight murders in other places; he died in an Anchorage jail cell on October 30, 1990, never tried for any of them and, in the record reached, never charged in Rohr's case. The consequence is printed plainly: the attribution is a suspicion carried by encyclopedias of the genre, not an adjudication, and Rohr's killing stands unsolved in the adjudicated record.
Sources:
- Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers — the Rohr killing and the Sinclair attribution, at the suspicion strength stated
- The coin-shop case databases built on Newton's encyclopedia — Rohr (August 28, 1985) and Sinclair's arrest (August 16, 1990) and death in custody (October 30, 1990)