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An appeals court upheld a Whiting man’s conviction last year in a 1998 Hammond triple homicide.

Lindsey Lanham didn’t plan on becoming a criminal prosecutor. In February 2019, not long before her sister Molley, 19, and Molley’s boyfriend, Thomas Grill Jr., were brutally murdered outside of Hebron, Lindsey, now 25, had been accepted to New York Law School in Manhattan, part of her plan, after an undergraduate degree in finance at Loyola University in Chicago, to go into business law or securities regulation after law school on the East Coast.

The Indiana Supreme Court unanimously upheld a Gary man’s murder conviction in a deadly gas station shooting. The decision, issued Tuesday, reversed a lower Indiana Appeals Court decision in May that threw out Marquis Young’s case.

Jurors found David C. Cotto, 27, guilty of murder and his girlfriend, Felicia A. Nelson, 32, guilty of assisting a criminal.

David C. Cotto, 27, and Felicia A. Nelson, 32, each were charged in connection with the shooting death of 28-year-old man in 2021 outside a bar in Gary.

A star witness who flipped against his co-defendant in a 1998 Hammond triple homicide was sentenced to 45 years Friday — in line with the deal he struck with prosecutors.

A judge sentenced a Gary man to 65 years Friday in a fatal gas station shooting.

A Whiting man was sentenced to 180 years Friday in connection with a 1998 Hammond triple murder.

A judge sentenced a Lake County man to 180 years in prison Friday for killing a woman and two teenage boys found bludgeoned to death in 1998 in a house

"We honor jury verdicts," the judge told James H. Higgason III. "As I sit here today, you got a fair trial and you got a proper trial."