The Unsolved of the Record, and the Record's Edge

1985–2003

One Mishawaka killing stands named as unsolved in the record of the press of record, beyond Rohr's above: Gordon Wolfe, 54, found dead on December 28, 2003, at 59355 Bremen Highway. St. Joseph County Police answered a panic alarm at the house and found that Wolfe had been killed by a shot fired through the front of the house. The South Bend Tribune's accounting six years on — "Homicide Unsolved 6 Years Later" (2010) — carries the case as unsolved, and it stands here at exactly that size: a name, a date, an address, a method, and a file still open. The unsolved-mysteries leg (80) digs this ground separately; this entry carries the case as the crime record's own open item.

Two boundary lines close the file. Donald Wasserman was a Mishawaka man, and his case is not Mishawaka's: he disappeared in August 1981 after a meeting in Elkhart, the case is the Elkhart County Homicide Unit's, and two men were charged there in 2025 — the charges are allegations, the proceedings theirs, and the case belongs to Elkhart's build. The supposed 2007 disappearances of “Jules Conner” and “Casey Monroe,” the “Mishawaka girls” of the podcast record, are not a case at all: no such missing persons exist, and the names belong to characters in the 2025 novel The Missing Half — Jules Connor and Kasey Monroe in the book’s spelling — whose correction stands printed whole in the Unsolved Mysteries section. And the modern era's counts — the homicide and offense totals of the last decades as the police department's annual reports and the federal Uniform Crime Reporting series state them — were not assembled; they are named here as the record's open edge, with their sources, rather than estimated. The history of crime, as this city's paper gives it, is the record above: an acquittal in 1858, a burning in 1906, an execution in 2005, and the long quiet dockets in between.

Sources:

1. South Bend Tribune, "Homicide Unsolved 6 Years Later" (2010) — the Wolfe case as unsolved
2. Elkhart County reporting on the Wasserman case and its 2025 charges — the boundary disposition