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The cold-case playing cards — the viewing route corrected; the unread suits stand unread

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2008 – 2013

The banked pull:The second-edition release (July 13, 2010) and the third-edition release (April 22, 2013) each state that the deck profiles 52 unsolved homicides and missing persons, and that the cards could be viewed on the Department's site — the second edition at in.gov/idoc/2827.htm, the third at in.gov/idoc/2826.htm. Those legacy viewing pages are the route; their archived copies were not reached.

What stands: The unread suits stand unread: the second edition's Clubs and Diamonds, the third edition's Hearts, Spades and Diamonds, and the first edition of 2008 entire. The county's two documented deck cases stand as banked: Vickie McDonough, 22, of the second edition — with the deck's case number and the State Police page's number printed standing against each other in the banked file — and Lawrence (Larry) Howard Groves, 40, the king of hearts of the second edition, found in June 2003 in the crawl space of his Lakeville home, whose case still rests on the deck alone.

Sources:

  1. Indiana Department of Correction, press releases of July 13, 2010 (second edition) and April 22, 2013 (third edition) (in.gov/idoc) — read first-hand: the 52-case decks and the viewing pages.
  2. this history and EXPAND-UNSOLVED-NOTE — the banked deck entries and the two documented county cases.

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Source: The cold-case playing cards — the viewing route corrected; the unread suits stand unread, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/south-bend/crime/cold-case-playing-cards-the-viewing-route-corrected-the/