By January 1987, Marshall County authorities were noticing a pattern emerging.

Here's an excerpt read from Sergeant Dave Yolk-Lets case summary.

In the past several years since 1982, this officer has been involved in the investigating

of several violent crimes that have occurred in the extreme southern portion of Marshall

County, Indiana.

Two of those crimes involved homicides, one of which was in 1984, the whole summer.

The other in 1986, the Peltz homicide.

In each of the three cases that have been investigated, I have found to be a two-year

interval.

The geographical area and the close proximity of each of these cases are a concern of this

investigator.

Yolk-Lets starts that window of time in 1982 because he's including Pam's case.

If you remember from last episode, Pam is the woman who survived a break-in and attempted

rape in December of 1982.

That was the first of the three cases.

There's nothing I can find that shows what exactly the thread was that finally connected

all three.

38 years later, and the people in charge today say that they don't know either.

But I think it was just one of those things, like an auto-stereogram.

It's fuzzy until you see it.

And then once the image within the picture emerges, you can't unsee it.

Maybe it was killed just a mile and a half away from Darleen in the middle of the day.

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