The raid's Friday, the coroner's index, and the cold-case cards

The exact raid Friday was a named pull, and it does not settle. No opinion — there are none, per the sweep — and no index item reached fixes the calendar date of the single Friday on which all four stores were raided. The three banked datings therefore stand together, printed whole as they were banked: the Tribune's raid report is indexed to 2000; a 2001 Tribune report calls the raids "last winter"; and Judge Beamer's 2002 suppression ruling dates "the February 2001 search."The raid's exact Friday closes NAMED GAP — settlers: the Tribune archive and the court files, where the search-warrant returns would date the searches to the day.

The coroner's index — a premise correction, flagged loudly. GAP-O4-6 named the St. Joseph County coroner's index as a settler on the expectation that it might not be openly readable. It is: the South Bend Area Genealogical Society's Saint Joseph County Coroner's Records — Index 1879–1960 (SBAGS, © 1998–2007) is published openly as per-letter files at sbags.org. But the index, read at its own strength, carries name and year only — "Henderson, Danny Lee, 1958" is its whole form — with no place, cause or manner field. It therefore cannot seat a death in Penn Township or exclude one, and the post-1960 records lie outside it entirely. The element closes as index read at its strength, with the residue a NAMED GAP: place attribution for any coroner's case — settler: the coroner's underlying records at the St. Joseph County Coroner's office. The index is named, open, and read; what it cannot do is stated, not papered over.

The cold-case playing cards. The file the register named as "the ISP cold-case playing-cards file" is, on the record reached, an Indiana Department of Correction publication produced with ISP and IMPD — the Indiana Cold Case Homicides Playing Cards — and the viewing-route correction is printed here for assembly: the decks are read through IDOC's cold-case cards pages, not as an ISP District 24 publication. The first deck (Tribune, 2008) carried 45 unsolved killings labeled "murder," four missing-person reports and one "body found," drawn from 26 Indiana counties, with cases running 1971 (John Terhorst, Boone County) to 2004 (Tracy Sissom, Brown County), sold to inmates at $1.10 and not marketed to the public; a second edition followed July 13, 2010 and a third on April 22, 2013, each of 52 unsolved homicides and missing persons. Tested against this ground — against the ISP District 24 (Bremen) cold-case list this build already read whole (Vickie McDonough, Clay Township; Brandie Peltz; Darlene Hulse, Marshall County — none of them Osceola or Penn) and against the deck descriptions reached — no Osceola or Penn Township card was identified: TESTED NEGATIVE at the strength reached. The settler for a card-by-card certainty is named plainly: the IDOC deck face-lists themselves, read card by card.

Sources:

1. This build's Crime & Public Safety (pass O-4) — the raid's three datings as banked (Tribune raid report indexed 2000; "last winter," Tribune 2001; "the February 2001 search," Beamer ruling 2002) and the District 24 cold-case list read whole, November 2026: McDonough (Clay Twp), Peltz, Hulse (Marshall Co.), none Osceola/Penn (banked).
2. South Bend Area Genealogical Society, Saint Joseph County Coroner's Records — Index 1879–1960 (sbags.org, © 1998–2007) — openly published per-letter index; entries carry name and year only (premise correction: the index IS openly readable; place attribution is the named gap, settler the Coroner's underlying records).
3. South Bend Tribune, 2008 (MBRL index) — the Indiana Cold Case Homicides Playing Cards: 45 "murder" cases, four missing-person reports, one "body found," 26 counties, 1971–2004, $1.10 inmate sale; Indiana Department of Correction pages for the second edition (July 13, 2010) and third edition (April 22, 2013), 52 cases each — IDOC publications with ISP and IMPD (viewing-route correction printed).