By January 1987,

1987, Marshall County authorities were noticing a pattern emerging.

Here's an excerpt read from Sergeant Dave Yokoetz 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 Hulse Homicide, the other in 1986, the Pelt's 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.

Yoglet 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 autostereogram. It's

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

Brandy was killed just a mile and a half away from Darlene

in the middle of the day.

It's easy to see why Darlene's case, which

was still fresh in everyone's mind, was compared.

But unlike Darlene, Brandy got a harassing phone call before her death.

And maybe that is the piece of red string that they were connecting from Brandy to Pam.

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