The appellate record, the Bureau, and the prosecutors' releases

Justia and Google Scholar; the FBI's published case histories; USAO and IRS-CI releases

The case law's homes: the Crime and Controversies files take their dispositions from the opinions themselves, read in full text at Justia and Google Scholar: Reeder v. State, 994 N.E.2d 763 (Indiana Court of Appeals, 2013); Allen v. State, No. 33A04-0305-CR-249 (reversed 9 August 2004) — the Osco case's reversal, and the reason that file prints "convicted once, reversed, dismissed — never acquitted"; Birdsell v. Shaliol, 112 U.S. 485 (1884), the Oliver patent's day in the Supreme Court, in the Inventors file; Bajdek v. Pulaski Post 357 Trust (Indiana Court of Appeals, 1961); the police-tapes litigation whole — the district case at 3:12-CV-475, the Seventh Circuit at 865 F.3d 889 (2017), and Judge Woods's destruction order of 28 May 2026, stayed pending appeal; the Housing Authority fraud at 3:21-cr-64; and a Supreme Court order list (certiorari denied 17 April 2023, No. 22-615). Dispositions in this history come from those texts or from the prosecutors' own releases — the United States Attorney's and IRS Criminal Investigation's sentencing releases, which the Controversies file uses as its disposition source in place of headlines.

The Bureau: the FBI's published case histories of Dillinger and Nelson were read first-hand for the Bank Robberies file — with a documented wrinkle: fbi.gov refused this build's reading tool (an HTTP 403), and the Nelson summary was read in the verbatim form in which it is reproduced in the open record, printed at that strength. The Bureau's vault file on the Dillinger gang, file 62-29777, is named in that file as the deeper source it was not — it was not re-read page by page in this build — and the BOMBROB teletype in file 91A-IP-79372 stands named as the FOIA target whose full file would deepen the robbery record. Around them: the Justice Department's archived Indiana Drug Threat Assessment (National Drug Intelligence Center, April 2001, and the May 2002 update), the NCJRS copy of the South Bend Police Department's Community Relations Bureau report (ojp.gov), the Indiana State Police Bremen Post's cold-case list, and the IDOC/ISP cold-case playing-card decks, whose second-edition Hearts and Spades and third-edition Clubs were read in full for the Unsolved file — the remaining suits not reachable card by card, and printed as not reached.

Sources:

1. The opinions at Justia and Google Scholar, as cited in entry.
2. FBI published case histories (Dillinger; Nelson); FBI Vault file 62-29777 (named, not re-read); the BOMBROB teletype, file 91A-IP-79372.
3. USAO and IRS-CI sentencing releases; NDIC, Indiana Drug Threat Assessment (2001) and 2002 Update; NCJRS/ojp.gov report 69959; ISP and IDOC cold-case lists and decks.