The Nation - News from May 2, 1989

A minister, his wife and two of their children were found shot to death in their parsonage in Lakeville, Ind., as the congregation of the Olive Branch Church of the United Brethren in Christ sang hymns in the church next door. Investigators believe the four were shot to death Saturday. The house was locked and showed no sign of forced entry, St. Joseph County sheriff’s Cpl. Charles Feirrell said. The body of Robert Pelley, 38, was found in the hallway, and the bodies of Dawn Pelley, 32, and their daughters Janel, 8, and Jolene, 6, were in the family room, Feirrell said. The Pelleys’ three other children, ages 10, 14 and 17, were not home when the attack occurred, police said.