Indiana judge finds guns tied to 1967 homicide while cleaning courthouse
The Lake County Government Center is shown in October 2017 in Crown Point, Indiana. (Photo Provided/Google Street View)
CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — A judge cleaning a courthouse closet says she discovered two handguns linked to a 1967 homicide — the “Madonna Murder” — that shocked northwestern Indiana.
In 1967, Sharon Potts, a 19-year-old hospital aide, was found dead behind a church in East Chicago.
Police said she had threatened to report that she had been sexually assaulted at a party.
Two people were convicted; one died in prison and another was released in 1983.
Lake County Judge Marissa McDermott says it’s interesting how “something could sit in a box for 50 years and then kind of bring a light.”
The judge would like to see the two guns made inoperable but then kept as “part of Lake County history.”