Unsolved Indiana: Murder Mysteries, Bizarre Deaths & Unexplained Disappearances

by Arcadia Publishing

Overview

Enduring mysteries from the Hoosier State

Crime and tragedy have all too often disturbed the peace and stained the memory of Indiana's bucolic countryside. The small town of Dupont was thrust into the nation's spotlight in 1947 after a series of suspicious deaths were blamed on a well-known local housekeeper—suspected serial killer Lottie "Tot" Lockman. On a fall day in 1976, a Benton County farmer found an unusual package in his cornfield—a corpse. Dubbed "The Box Lady of Benton County," her identity remains a mystery. On September 13, 1989, Joseph Bova was killed outside of his Merrillville home when a pipe bomb rigged to his truck's ignition exploded. With no witnesses, suspects, or motive, his case remains unsolved.

Author Autumn Bones explores some of Indiana's least-known unsolved cases.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467152815
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	10/03/2022
Series:	True Crime
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	617,062
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Autumn Bones is an Indiana native who lives in Brown County with her family and pets. As a freelance journalist, Autumn spends her free time sifting through newspaper archives, searching national missing persons registries and scouring state records to find unsolved cases from Indiana.

Table of Contents

1 The Woman in the Well 11

2 The Brown Family Murders 16

3 The Door in the Floor 19

4 The Box Lady of Benton County 22

5 The Blindfold Death 27

6 The Murder of Sarah Gibbs 31

7 The Skeleton in the Attic 33

8 Abducted in Broad Daylight 37

9 Birthday Double Murder 40

10 A Savage Attack 44

11 The Bebop Killer 48

12 Mercury and Old Lace 51

13 Murder in Merrillville 56

14 The Wandering Widow of Southern Indiana 59

15 The Disappearance of Mark Tomich 64

16 A Clue on the Chalkboard 66

17 The Robinson Murders 68

18 Where Is Baby Larry? 72

19 The Richmond Scissors Slaying 76

20 A Kept Secret 78

21 The Undertaker of Owen County 81

22 The Pope Sisters 87

23 A Surprise Suspect 89

24 The Laundromat Murder 93

25 Rose Acres 96

26 The Icepick Murder 102

27 A Father's Wrath 106

28 Merrillville's Cinderella 113

29 The Kokomo Schoolteacher 117

30 Forty-Eight Hours or Less 121

31 Murder in New Haven 125

32 One Building, Two Mysteries 128

33 Company Secrets 135

34 A Stolen Future 139

35 The Simmons Sisters 141

Postscript 149

Works Cited 151

About the Author 159