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The District List, Re-Read First-Hand
The omitted-case test: the district's list, re-read — and one flaw in the state's own page, flagged
AUDIT ROW #443 · ISP BREMEN DISTRICT (24) COLD-CASE PAGES, IN.GOV, READ THIS PASS
The test asks whether any Walkerton case is missing from the state's cold-case list — and the list was re-read first-hand, because the banked set's read of it was borrowed from sister-county builds and the audit flagged exactly that (DF-W-67). The Indiana State Police's Bremen District (District 24) cold-case pages, read at in.gov, carry three cases for the district's southern counties: Vickie McDonough — found November 27, 1974, in Clay Township; Darlene Hulse — case 24F-1905, taken August 17, 1984, from her home on 20B Road near Argos, in Marshall County, and found the next day in woods off Olive Trail, dead of blunt force trauma (the State Police renewed the appeal in August 2025, Detective Arthur Smith of the Cold Case team, hotline 833-466-2653); and Brandi Peltz — case 24-29966, December 11, 1986, found at her Argos home, strangled, the house set afire. None of the three is seated in Walkerton or Lincoln Township, and no Walkerton-seated case appears on the district's published list as re-read: the omitted-case test returns negative at list strength, and DF-W-67's shared-strength weakness is cured for this build by the re-read. Two residues are printed with it. First, the list-strength limit: a Walkerton case omitted from the state's list altogether (the Parker pattern — a case the list never carried) would not be caught by reading the list, and its settler is the Independent's and Tribune's files, named here. Second, a flaw in the state's own record, flagged and not folded: the ISP's Peltz page carries a "Location of Offense" line placing the offense at a railroad access road some 300 feet south of Brick Road in Clay Township — which is the McDonough case's geography, not Peltz's, and which contradicts the same page's circumstances text (found at home, in Argos).
The ones that closed: checked for a Walkerton seat — and a story corrected
AUDIT ROW #444 · COUNTY COLD-CASE CLOSINGS, CHECKED · THE HULSE CASE IS ACTIVE, NOT CLOSED
The closing item runs the other direction: of the county's cold cases that have closed — solved, cleared, or written off — does any carry a Walkerton seat, and does any "unsolved" story in the banked set need correcting? On the first limb: no closed cold case seated in Walkerton or Lincoln Township stands in the records reached; the district's three listed cases (article 1) are all open, and the county's celebrated closings are its cities' cases, at boundary size. On the second limb, one correction of emphasis is due and is printed: the Hulse case is sometimes carried in summary accounts as a stale file, and the state's own record says otherwise — the State Police renewed the public appeal in August 2025 with a named detective and a dedicated hotline, which makes the case an active cold case in the district whose edge touches this township's world (Argos is Marshall County's, and the abduction ground lies a few miles from the county line). It is not Walkerton's case, and this build does not adopt it; but the leg that lists the district's unsolved owes the district's living investigation its correct tense. The item closes mixed: the closings test negative at reached strength, the tense corrected at first-hand strength.