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1934–1990 · A NAMED GAP
Between the Wagner killing and the morning in 1990 that opens the modern record, this section states its finding the way the Fort Wayne record stated its own: the decades were not free of murder in South Bend, but a search of the sources reached — the appellate reports, the memorial record, the press of record — produced no second tried case of those years with a documented profile comparable to the cases in this section, and the space is not filled with lesser cases promoted beyond their record. One story from those years lives in neighborhood memory: killings near Rum Village in the winter of 1958, retold in our own time under a “Shovel Slayer” name. No court record and no press-of-record account reached for this history sustains that story as a tried case, and no one was ever charged in it in any record reached; it belongs, so far as it belongs anywhere in this history, to the unsolved record, and it is pointed there rather than retold here.
Sources:
- The appellate reports of Indiana and the memorial record for St.