The investigation wing

Investigations

Two lanes, kept separate and labeled, so a reader always knows whose investigation they are reading — and a third room in the wing: the Unsolved Crimes bureau, which opens a case file only when an official cold-case listing publishes one.

Lane 1 — Official investigations

Cases worked by FWPD, the Sheriff, the Indiana State Police and federal agencies, reported only from releases, affidavits and filings.

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Lane 2 — Our investigations

Moosed Crime's own desk: primary records first, every claim graded. Home of Investigation 001 — “The missing months,” finding so far: DOCUMENTED.

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Unsolved Crimes bureau

Cold cases filed as case files — from official cold-case listings only. No invented cases, names, or details. Charter published; case list opens as official listings are filed.

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Lane 1

Official investigations

Cases being worked by the Fort Wayne Police Department, the Allen County Sheriff's Department, the Indiana State Police, and federal agencies in Allen County. This desk reports official investigations only from primary material: agency releases, probable-cause affidavits, charging documents and court filings. Where an agency has published nothing, we say the case is being reported without official material — we do not reconstruct an investigation from rumor or social media.

How official cases land here

FWPD's Crime Analysis Unit reviews daily crime reports, prepares daily incident summaries and monthly statistical reports, and forwards the city's statistics to the FBI-UCR program — the department's own description of its work (cityoffortwayne.in.gov, Crime Analysis).
Charged cases are followed in Allen County court records on Indiana MyCase, by cause number — the same spine used for booking dispositions on this desk.
Federal cases are followed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (Fort Wayne division) filings.

Status at launch (November 3, 2026): no official-investigation features are published yet. Features publish as they are sourced to releases or filings — none will be back-dated or reconstructed after the fact.

Lane 2

Our investigations

Launched November 3, 2026

Moosed Crime's own investigations desk opens today. Its rules:

Primary records first — documents, data and filings before commentary, ours or anyone else's.
Claims are graded on every published finding: PROVEN (the primary record settles it) · DOCUMENTED (a primary record supports it) · UNPROVEN (asserted, not yet carried by a record) · MISIDENTIFIED (the record shows the claim points at the wrong thing).
No accusation without a primary record behind it. An investigation can clear a name as readily as it can raise a question — both publish the same way, with the record attached.
Investigations do not go with the status quo: an official statement is evidence to examine, never a conclusion to copy.

Evidence 001 Investigation 001 — The missing months in the city's crime data

Status: Open Finding so far: Documented

The question: how current is the crime data the City of Fort Wayne publishes about itself?

What the record shows: on November 3, 2026, this desk read FWPD's Crime Stats pages on the city's own website first-hand. The newest cumulative table there is Cumulative April 2026 (January–April 2026), and the newest single-month table is February 2026. Tables for the months after April 2026 do not appear in the city's published archive. The department's Crime Analysis Unit states that it prepares monthly statistical reports — so monthly reports exist as an internal product; the public archive is what lags.

Why it matters: every public claim about whether Fort Wayne crime is rising or falling in late 2026 currently rests on data the public cannot see. The desk's Stats page publishes the city's tables as they stand and flags this gap rather than filling it with estimates.

Next steps: this desk works only from what is accessible online, so the follow-up is monitoring, not requesting: the city's Crime Stats archive is re-checked on the desk's cadence, and when the department publishes the missing months, the tables and this file's grade are updated here. The gap stays labeled “not published” until then — it is not estimated and it is not filled from any other source.

Records read first-hand November 3, 2026: FWPD “Cumulative April 2026 Crime Statistics” and “February 2026 Crime Statistics,” and the FWPD Crime Analysis Unit page, cityoffortwayne.in.gov.

Case File · Unsolved Crimes Bureau Case board · Open

Unsolved Crimes Bureau

The bureau keeps case files on unsolved crimes in Fort Wayne and Allen County — homicides, missing persons, and unidentified-persons cases that the responsible agencies still carry as open. A case file here is a public-record summary of what the official listing itself publishes: the name as the listing gives it, the date and place as listed, the agency carrying the case, and a link to the official listing. Nothing more is added.

The sourcing standard — official listings only

A case is filed only when it appears on an official cold-case listing — the Fort Wayne Police Department's or Allen County Sheriff's own cold-case listings, the Indiana State Police cold-case listings, or the FBI's published case listings (including its kidnappings / missing persons and Violent Criminal Apprehension Program material).
No invented cases, names, or details. If an official listing does not publish a fact, the case file does not state it. There is no reconstruction, no dramatization, and no material taken from television, podcasts, forums, or aggregator sites.
People are named only as the official listing names them. A person of interest or suspect is named only where the listing itself names them; a listing's wording governs, and this bureau adds no accusation of its own.
Files follow the listing. When an agency solves, clears, or removes a case, the file here is updated and marked with what the agency published — a closed file is never quietly deleted, and a case is never left labeled unsolved after the record says otherwise.
Tips do not come to this site. Anyone with information should contact the agency carrying the case through that agency's own published tip channels. This bureau publishes records; it does not take or forward tips.

How a case file gets opened

1 · Listed

The case appears on an official cold-case listing (police, Indiana State Police, or FBI). No listing — no file.

2 · Transcribed

The file carries exactly what the listing publishes — name, date, place, agency — with the listing linked as the source.

3 · Followed

The file is checked against the listing on the desk's cadence and updated when the agency updates, solves, or withdraws it.

Listings sweptFWPD · Allen County Sheriff · Indiana State Police · FBI

Filing standardOfficial cold-case listings only — nothing invented

TipsGo to the agency carrying the case — never to this site

The case board

CaseAgency carrying the caseOfficial listingStatus

The board is open and current as of November 3, 2026 — no case has been filed to it yet. Cases are entered here as they are filed from official cold-case listings, one at a time, each with its listing cited; the board is checked against those listings on the desk's cadence, and a case that is solved or withdrawn is marked as the agency publishes it, never silently removed. An unsolved case will never be invented to fill this board.