INDIANAPOLIS – Two men were arrested Monday and charged with murder in connection to a decades-old cold case involving the death of an Indiana teen, police said.
On Monday, members of the Indiana State Police and Noble County Sheriff’s Department arrested Fred Bandy Jr., 67, of Goshen, and John Wayne Lehman, 67, of Auburn, in connection to the death of Laurel Mitchell of North Webster, who went missing after leaving work at a church camp in 1975.
According to a release from Indiana State Police, the body of Mitchell, 17, was found floating in the Elkhart River by two fishermen, according to an article that appeared in the Kendallville News-Sun dated Aug. 7, 1975. Authorities initially believed Mitchell’s death to be a case of accidental drowning.
