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Gary McCracken

Case from South-bend, IN dated Mar 19, 2002

Victim Details

Gary McCracken

Male

White / Caucasian

South-bend

IN

2002-03-19

43

Gary

McCracken

07/11/2026

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In the early morning hours of March 19, 2002, the quiet of a South Bend, Indiana neighborhood was broken by a grim discovery. In an alley in the 1300 block of College Street, a resident found the body of 43-year-old Gary McCracken. Emergency crews responded to the scene and pronounced the South Bend man dead from a gunshot wound. At the time of his death, McCracken was working for Affordable Auto, engaged in the process of repossessing a vehicle.

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