Prom Night Massacre - The Pelley Family Murders

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True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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On April 29, 1989, 17-year-old Jeffrey Pelley put on his tuxedo and headed to his high school prom in Lakeville, Indiana. But the next morning, when his father, Pastor Robert Pelley, didn't show up for Sunday service, a horrifying discovery was made next door at the parsonage. Robert, his wife Dawn, and their two young daughters had been gunned down with a shotgun. The front door was locked, the curtains were drawn, and the primary suspect was the son who had supposedly spent the night dancing.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, igniting conversation. This is True Crimecast.
0:25.9	Jamie and John, your host.
0:27.4	What is up?
0:28.7	Not much, man.
0:29.7	Enjoying the weather in Kentucky right now.
0:32.3	Finally, 70 degrees, sunny, all as well.
1:11.1	Well, it's going to be like this week. For like 10 minutes. Yeah, I don't, I never trust it, you know. Yeah. I mean, tomorrow it could definitely snow or be 90 degrees. Yeah. Either one of those is legitimately a possibility. Both. Let's go with that. How are you doing, man? Sorry to always be an old man and talk about weather. You always, every, without hesitation, go into weather. Yeah. Sorry. We need to just go have our morning meetings at Hardee's sooner than later. Like, I'm at that stage of life. I don't think are we old enough yet? I think We're getting close. We're getting close. We could go ahead and save us a seat.
1:12.5	You think they want to talk about crime?
1:14.8	No,
1:15.7	they want to talk about the farmers on the neck,
1:18.3	stuff like that.
1:19.1	I get it.
1:19.6	But we heard to talk about crime,
1:21.7	a pretty brutal one.
1:23.9	This is a case I cannot believe I had never heard of.
1:27.4	Right.
1:27.9	Yeah.
1:29.5	Yeah, I had heard of it, but it's certainly the details of it are worse than I thought.
1:35.1	I'm excited to not only talk about the details of the case, but at the end, when we get to do our own kind of wrap up thoughts, feelings.
1:42.9	Like, is there more to this case? I'm excited to hear
1:45.9	your thoughts on that. Was justice served? You'll find out after we're not taking a break. John's
1:51.6	just going to thank Patreon people now. I do. I want to say thank you to Jad X. HD. If I didn't say
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