Hi, Crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

And I'm Brett. And do I have a doozy of a case for you today?

And here's the thing. This is a well-known case. Like, there's been a 48 hours, books the whole nine.

And if you're from Indiana like Brett and I, this case, defined the small town of Lakeville for years.

Because it seemed like such a senseless crime. There was a pastor, his wife, and her two daughters,

who were brutally murdered inside their own home for seemingly no reason, or at least a senseless reason.

It took over a decade for an arrest to finally be made, and in another four years before somebody actually went to prison for the crime.

But at least it was solved. Or at least, that's what you've probably heard if you've been around Indiana long enough.

And it might be true, but if you're a crime junkie, you know there are two sides to every story.

And one side of this story has never been told.

So take my advice. Stick around to the very last second of this episode.

Because audio chucks about to tell a whole new story. And it's a story no one's ever heard before.

This is the prom night murders of the Pellee family.

But I know you know this, but Lakeville, Indiana is a speck of a thing. Like a blink and you'll miss it kind of town, just south of where you are right now in South Bend.

Yeah, I mean, I pass it, like pass it, not even go through it when I go down to the offices in Indy.

It's maybe 10 minutes away from where my husband grew up. It's blink and you miss it. That's the only way to just gripe it.

Yes, well, in April of 1989, it was even smaller, even more tight knit and nothing holds a tight knit communities together like church.

Now we went to a mega church back home, but between the mega churches are always tiny little steeples that you can find off long country roads.

Usually bordered by corn fields on more than one side. And that is exactly the kind of church at the center of our story.

A little light chapel with more pews than people, olive branch church on Osborne Road.

It was 32 years ago this very week that the community gathered for their normal Sunday service. It was April 30th, 1989.

Normally, Bob Pellee, the church's pastor, was there to greet everyone. I mean, he's first one in last one out to leave.

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