(© The Indianapolis Star)
The Reese home on North Bosart Street still looks much as it did in 1986.
(Robert L. Snow)
Detectives arrested Paul Reese Sr. (shown here in a 2011 mugshot) in 1986 for Dawn Marie Stuard’s murder, but later released him for lack of evidence.
(Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department)
Left: Paul Reese Jr. (shown here in a 2013 mugshot) was arrested with his father in 1986 for Dawn Marie Stuard’s murder, but later released for lack of evidence. Right: Barbara Reese (shown here in a 2012 mugshot) was arrested in 2008 for trying to help her son, Brian, escape from the police.
(Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department)
Dawn Marie Stuard’s murder was Detective Sergeant Roy West’s first case as a homicide detective, and he never gave up in his determination to solve it.
(Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department)
The police suspected Brian Reese of having been involved in multiple crimes, including several murders.
(Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department)
Lona Bishop’s house on North Hamilton Avenue, where police detectives first encountered Brian Reese on July 10, 2008.
(Robert L. Snow)
The crime scene on North Euclid Avenue, where Officer Jason Fishburn was shot and critically injured during his chase of Brian Reese on July 10, 2008.
(Robert L. Snow)
Officer Jason Fishburn and his wife, Tonya, who married in 2002.
(Courtesy of Dennis Fishburn)
Officer Jason Fishburn came from a close-knit law enforcement family.
(Courtesy of Dennis Fishburn)
Officer Jason Fishburn and his wife, Tonya, who worked for the county crime lab.
(Courtesy of Dennis Fishburn)
Ted Stuard never doubted that the Reese family was involved in the murder of his daughter. Over two decades later, he and his second wife, Linda Stuard, both played key roles in getting Dawn’s murder case reopened.
(Courtesy of Ted and Linda Stuard)
Left: Detective Mark Albert of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Cold Case Squad reopened the Dawn Marie Stuard murder case in 2011, with assistance from retired detective Roy West.
(Courtesy of Mark Albert)
Right: Deputy prosecutor Denise Robinson prosecuted both the Officer Jason Fishburn shooting case and the Dawn Marie Stuard murder case.
(Courtesy of Denise A. Robinson)
1 See author’s previous book, Slaughter on North LaSalle, for a full accounting of that case.
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