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December 2007 – November 10, 2026
Delia Lerma: The Unsolved file carries her whole: she left her home at 713 South Bendix Street at about 2 p.m. on December 4, 2007, to buy ingredients at Rosales Food Store, 2812 West Western Avenue, and was found four days later in the family's van along South Carlisle Street, stabbed; the case was worked by cold-case investigators Craig Whitfield and Gary Hasbrook and featured, with the department's cooperation, on Cold Justice in November 2025. The documented follow-through is now a charge: a St. Joseph County grand jury sat March 16–19, 2026, and indicted Lucio Lerma Sr. on a murder charge; the South Bend Police Department announced the indictment on March 24, 2026; he was held without bond, with a hearing set for April 6, 2026. Two searches found no trial date set and no verdict in the record reached through November 10, 2026. The charge prints as a charge; this section's closing line updates in the natural cycle when a verdict documents.
Rachel Zentz: The Unsolved file carries her identification whole: her remains were positively identified as Rachel Zentz, 43, formerly of LaPaz, Indiana, by county investigators with the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, and the same release ruled "the cause and manner of death has been ruled as undetermined." This pass's searches surfaced no later coroner's ruling and no further release. Her file stands where the release leaves it: the identification closed, the death undetermined, as of November 10, 2026.
Sources:
- South Bend Police Department, the indictment announcement of March 24, 2026, as carried in the press (US Magazine, March 25, 2026) — the grand jury of March 16–19, the charge, the bond status, the April 6 hearing.
- this history — the banked Lerma entry and the banked county homicide-unit release on Zentz.