Crime and Justice in South Bend History

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Crime and Justice in South Bend History

Crime, robberies, murder cases and cold cases.

Crime & Justice

§ 48South Bend Crime HistorySouth Bend's criminal record begins where its government begins: with a county organized in 1830, a sheriff appointed in 1831, and a jail of hewn oak ordered that November. This page follows that record era by era — the…28 entry pages § 49South Bend Bank Robberies: The Documented CasesSouth Bend's banks are chronicled in the Banks section, and its crime in the Crime section. This section holds the narrow ground where the two meet: the times men took money out of a South Bend bank by force, in the…17 entry pages § 50Serial Killers and South Bend: What the Record ShowsEvery American city of any age eventually asks the question, usually in the form of a name half-remembered from a headline: did we have one of those? For South Bend the question has three forms, and this section puts…4 entry pages § 51South Bend's High-Profile Murder CasesSome murder cases a city tries and forgets. A few it cannot put down: the trial the whole county followed, the sentence the newspapers carried for years, the case that changed how the police work or how the courts sit.…15 entry pages § 52South Bend Cold Cases and Unsolved Mysteries: The Open FilesThe Crime section of this history closes its cases: the trials, the verdicts, the sentences. This section is its companion — the cases that never closed. It holds the killing on the Notre Dame campus in 1975 that the…8 entry pages

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Source: Crime and Justice in South Bend History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/south-bend/topics/crime/

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