“The murder of a minister’s family near South Bend at the end of April 1989 was, at the time, the worst case of mass murder in the history of northern Indiana. Police very quickly focused on Robert Jeffrey Pelley, the son of the minister, Robert Lee Pelley, and within a matter of hours concluded that he had to be the killer.
But was Jeff Pelley, as he was called, really the murderer? The case of the Pelleys fascinated Indiana for almost two decades – for every fact that seemed to suggest that Jeff Pelley had murdered his father, stepmother, and stepsisters, there were other facts that seemed to show he was innocent.
It took Indiana authorities years to charge Jeff Pelley with the murders of his family, and still more years to bring him to trial. And the story isn’t over yet …
But the truth of what really happened on April 29, 1989, remains a mystery.”
Oooh, I do love me a good true crime mystery! 🕵
