Court starts at 9 a.m. Thursday. Clouse, who lends humor to the proceedings and normally does his judicial work in Noble County, will demand that Calvert decide to testify or not. Then the closing arguments will begin and Clouse said allows as much time as is needed. A verdict is expected tomorrow afternoon. Chief Deputy Tom Chaille and Chief Counsel Tesa Helge, the department’s top prosecutors, have presented a large amount of evidence. Many deputy prosecutors, local a

It was was the viciousness of the attack that made people put their heads down or turn away when autopsy photos came around. Marcia Linsky, a few days shy of her 65th birthday, was stabbed at least 34 times, according to the forensic pathologist, Dr. Lyndsey Emery, and there could have been more.

Sources have told The Probable Cause that two local gangs opened fire, with no regard to the large crowd spilling out of a hall in the 2200 block of Oliver Street around the corner from where the homicide occurred, or to other early morning partiers at the “blue house,” a well known party house at the corner of Greene and Oliver.

The victim was 67 years old and lived far north in Allen County. His home in the 700 block of Hathaway Road is peaceful with large homes. Roger Marvin Swedzinski died Saturday morning around 9:30 a.m. of multiple gunshot wounds.He was at his home.

On the night of Feb. 19, 2023, Brandon Golden and Daisha “Twink” Fitts walked out of the Fraternal Order of Eagles casino on Bluffton Road at 11:23 p.m., got into Golden’s van and left happy, pulling out on to Winchester Road Six minutes later, Golden was frantically speeding back into the casino parking lot, his friend Daisha, a beloved local barber, dying between the passenger and the back seat after she was shot in an ambush at Winchester and Airport Expressway.

Royal Davis, Jr. took the stand on the last day of his trial and told his story, even though it would have been difficult to overcome a felony murder charge when you flat out admit you were there when the homicide occurred. Friday, after the full four-day trial, Davis was found guilty of those charges and the gun enhancement that can add up to 20 years to a sentence. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 8.