Weighted Key at Pelham Lake: How a Motel Secret Unraveled a Murder
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Weighted Key at Pelham Lake: How a Motel Secret Unraveled a Murder
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The quiet pull of a weighted motel key from Pelham Lake started a chain that led to a body and a courtroom battle spanning six decades - a diamond-shaped brass key stamped "LAKESIDE MOTOR COURT / 7" tied to a concrete block with baling wire and tossed from the opposite shore. Who would weight and hide a motel key and why was the victim found face down under gravel with two blows to the skull?
In this episode, we follow the discovery, the immediate police actions, and the small details that turned routine motel housekeeping and a fisherman's trotline into the first clues of a homicide - could a single weighted key reveal who killed Grant Vickers?
Person: Grant Vickers
Date: August 9-15, 1953
Location: Pelham Lake, Garnet County, Indiana
Event: Missing person turned homicide
Status: Body recovered; two blunt-force skull wounds
- The key was diamond-shaped brass, stamped "LAKESIDE MOTOR COURT / 7," tied to a concrete block with baling wire.
- Leon Norris, a 61-year-old retired feed-mill worker, found the weighted key in his second trotline on the morning of August 14, 1953.
- Grant Vickers checked into Room Seven around 9:30 PM on August 9, signing the register as "R. Holden" and paying cash.
- The motel room had been laundered on the morning of August 11, two days before the missing-person report was filed.
- Divers recovered Vickers on August 15 beneath a gravel bar at the eastern end of Pelham Lake, with two blows to the rear of the skull and $37 in cash still in his wallet.
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