Jeff Pelley and the Prom Night Murders

Cryptic Soup Pod

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to talk about the 1989 Prom Night Murders from Northern Indiana. When Jeff Pelley attended his Lakeville Prom everyone suspected that his dad must have changed his mind and let him go… only little did they later find out that Jeff had murdered his family. Revenge? Humiliation? What was the reasoning? Let’s find out together and talk about Jeff Pelley and the Prom Night Murders.

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Our sources for this episode:

• https://casetext.com/case/pelley-v-state-1
• https://www.wvpe.org/wvpe-news/2024-05-01/no-new-trial-for-prom-night-murders-judge-rules
• https://www.wndu.com/2024/04/29/jeff-pelley-convicted-nearly-20-years-ago-prom-night-killer-denied-retrial/
• https://www.abc57.com/news/convicted-prom-night-murderer-denied-a-retrial
• https://www.in.gov/apps/indcorrection/ofs/ofs?previous_page=1&detail=168287
• Book - The Prom Night Murders: A Devoted American Family, their Troubled Son, and a Ghastly Crime by Carlton Smith