Town note
The town motto is 'Grown from tradition'.
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FILE 568 / 1 February 2025 / 72 MIN / express
Uh, Middlebury, Indiana. It's in northern Indiana, about an hour and 20 minutes away from Fort Wayne. This is in Elkhart county. about 0:03:13
The town motto is 'Grown from tradition'.
about 0:04:38The first settlers came in 1832 from Middlebury, Vermont.
about 0:04:46They chose the area because the rolling hills reminded them of Vermont.
about 0:04:59The first children born in Middlebury were born in 1835.
about 0:05:24The town motto is 'Grown from tradition'.
about 0:04:38The first settlers came in 1832 from Middlebury, Vermont.
about 0:04:46They chose the area because the rolling hills reminded them of Vermont.
about 0:04:59The first children born in Middlebury were born in 1835.
about 0:05:24A carpenter named Squire Lee arrived in 1839 and allegedly lived to be a hundred years old.
about 0:05:41The railroad arrived and the town became a manufacturing centre.
about 0:05:57By 1839 there were only twelve families living in the town.
about 0:06:10The first Amish families came from Pennsylvania in 1841 and settled around the town.
about 0:06:16Middlebury was incorporated as a town in 1868.
about 0:06:30"3,446"
No direction stated.
As told in 2025 about 0:04:03
"$78,813"
Comparison: "above the national average". Direction: above.
As told in 2025 about 0:04:13
"$313,100"
No direction stated.
As told in 2025 about 0:04:30
3.7 / 5 · average of 3
“The quintessential Norman Rockwell community: safe, friendly and caring, with children playing outside, families using the Pumpkinvine bike trail, and Chicago an hour to an hour and a half away for day trips.”about 0:06:38
“A wonderful small town rich with Amish and Mennonite history, where Amish and English live, work, eat and socialise together.”about 0:07:23
“The town has only two parks and they are seldom used; people go to nearby towns for things to do and entertainment.”about 0:07:50
Barbara Jo Neff was born in 1964 and lived all her life in Elkhart County, Indiana. One of six children, she became a maternity nurse at Elkhart General Hospital and was known as a kind, caring woman. In 1996 she married Robert Kime, a deputy with the Elkhart County Sheriff's Office, and their son Timothy was born in 2000.
Barbara banned the relationship.
They drove towards the county line and stopped at a cornfield. He later said he had been fascinated by the way her body fell and that it felt good to take someone's soul.
Barbara failed to appear at work on August 4 or at any of her appointments. On August 5 a sister called the police, who found cigarette ends in an apartment where nobody smoked and a wallet holding the ID but no credit card. Neighbours reported shouting and scuffling on August 4 and two people loading boxes into Barbara's red car. When police returned, the cigarette ends, wallet, keys and ID had gone, and the case became a kidnapping.
At 3.40 a.m. on the Saturday the red car was found at the Goshen Motel, with a broken window and vomit beside it.
A psychiatrist, Dr Yoder, found him manipulative and deceptive.
Barbara Kime is buried at Prairie Street Cemetery in Elkhart.
August 4, 2005 / her apartment in Middlebury, Indiana, and a cornfield near the county line
As told in the episode, on 1 February 2025.
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Public places are marked on the map.
body found
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about 0:30:17other
about 0:21:47school
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about 1:10:14police
about 0:15:28landmark
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about 0:31:05home
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