“Ninety percent of the guys are STG,” Parish said. “All these murders (at Miami), they keep people locked down with no sunlight. We have not been out for one hour for six months. Pretty soon, their mental health is…..”

—Her mother was asleep on the couch just a few feet away when her stepdad put his hands down her pants and molested her. She was eight years old. Scared, she finally pulled away and ran to the bathroom, but it got even creepier. When she opened the door, her stepdad was standing there, waiting for her. The monster in the dark, so to speak, put his arms around her and whispered into her ear. “I’m sorry. I thought you would like it it,” he said.

We are mourning the loss of My Right Hand whose name was Stacey Davis. It’s difficult to quantify the impact she had on the criminal justice system. She developed such a level of knowledge of the criminal legal system that the prosecutor’s office started to rely on her when they brought in families of homicide victims. She was there for support and to help translate the process.

ssix Robinson is only 15 years old, yet shares the burden of his family on his slim shoulders. He thought he’d found a safe place at an abandoned home in the 4400 block of Bowser Avenue. On Jan. 5, Essix was waived into adult court by Judge Brent Ecenbarger, the county’s juvenile judge.

"He got jumped,” was the explanation for the fatal Piere's stabbing the day after Thanksgiving. “Read between the lines.” Immanuel “Manny” Ryshawn Walker, 27, was taken into custody in the 2600 block of Painted Desert Run by the Fort Wayne Police Department’s Homicide Task Force Dec. 6, about a week after two people were stabbed at the club, in the 5600 block of St. Joe Road, an FWPD news release said.

Louisa Young is still waiting to hear from the Indiana Department of Correction concerning her son’s death. Damarcus Thomas turned 25 on his deathbed, so to speak.

Maybe because of memories of a lost romance or loneliness, or because of fear or coercion, or maybe the awkward hope of a diamond ring, Priya Whitt kept her silence for years. “Don’t say nothing,” she was told and Reginald Gant and Gregory Robinson expected her to keep her mouth shut.

Five of the six charged who - Douglas Zuber, Christopher Yoho aka Chris Woho, Ryan Minick, Jerrad Impton and Wert - are scheduled to appear Sept. 26 in front of Allen Superior Court Judge Fran Gull. Vard Warnock, the sixth defendant charged a week later after a misidentification, still has a hearing on Aug. 25, according to online court documents.

Inmate Jeffery Clouser, 60, was found hours later with his face smashed in so badly, it's hard to imagine anyone surviving such an attack.