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June 9, 1985 – November 10, 2026
The Unsolved file carries the man found shot to death on June 9, 1985, behind the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge at Cleveland Road and State Road 933, buried at Tutt Cemetery, and exhumed on September 15, 2025, by the county police and the Coroner's Office for genetic genealogy, Detective Allan Barnes named in the coverage. He was unidentified when the file was written, and the exhumation was this section's closing fact.
The follow-through: This pass searched the identification record repeatedly on November 10, 2026 — under genetic-genealogy identification phrasings, under St. Joseph County and Tutt Cemetery phrasings, and through the Doe Network's case index. The searches returned identifications from other jurisdictions and no South Bend item; no Doe Network case page for this man surfaced. No identification of the Howard Johnson John Doe, and no statement from the coroner or the county police about the genealogy work, stands documented in the record reached since the exhumation.
The re-log: The silence is printed at its true size: as of November 10, 2026 — fourteen months after the exhumation — the documented record carries nothing further. The file re-opens the moment an identification documents.
Sources:
- WNDU, Michiana Unsolved (banked) — the case and the September 15, 2025 exhumation.
- Forensic Magazine / ISHI News summary, September 15, 2025 (banked) — the exhumation and the genetic-genealogy purpose.
- The Doe Network case index, searched November 10, 2026 — no case page for this man surfaced; carried here as the searched record, not as a source for any fact about him.