Public Court Records • File No. 3
THE VICKI BECKER FILE
Prosecuting Attorney, Elkhart County, Indiana
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Vicki Becker. Official portrait, Elkhart County Prosecutor's Office / IPAC.
This file is built from the government's own records: court orders, appellate opinions, docket pulls, her committee's own campaign filings, certified state payroll reports, and letters her office signed. Where a court has made a finding, this file prints the finding. Where a claim exists only as an allegation in a complaint or a motion, this file labels it an allegation, every time. Where the record has not been produced yet, this file says so and names the pull that settles it.
It also prints what the record shows in her favor, in its own section, in full. No court has ever found that Vicki Becker lied, knowingly withheld evidence, or committed misconduct, and this file will not say otherwise. What the courts have found, case by case, is below.
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Every file in this series is built the same way: public records, exhibited in full, and nothing in them that the paper does not say. Finish one file, and the next is waiting — the loop does not close.
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THE PETE AGOSTINO FILE
He has sat in Roseland’s town attorney chair since at least the year 2000. In all that time, no one has produced the contract that hired him, the vote that appointed him, or one figure for what the town has paid him. This file is the search for that paper.
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THE WHOLE SHELF — CHOOSE BY CATEGORY
POLICE OFFICERSThe Shawn Apps File — 13 appointments, 6 terminations for cause, 4 waiver denials — the academy’s own ledger, and the departments that kept hiring him.
POLICE OFFICERSThe Aaron Knepper File — the sergeant in his own department’s log, case 25-6153, and seventeen years of paper behind one line.
POLICE OFFICERSThe Ryan O’Neill File — The sergeant who shot Eric Logan — cleared for the shooting, a convicted felon for the month before it, and barred from public employment by his own plea.
POLICE OFFICERSThe Tim Corbett File — The homicide commander from the police-tapes fight — now a $90-an-hour school investigator with no end date on his contract.
ELECTED OFFICIALSThe Mike Schalk File — The council president, on tape — and the 1985 record underneath it.
ELECTED OFFICERSThe Sharon McBride File — The DuComb Center director the county fired in 2024 — and the sworn deposition that put her District 3 seat in question.
PROSECUTORS
The Vicki Becker File — YOU ARE HERE — The 2003 discovery letter that left two internal-affairs files out of a murder case — and the exoneration that came 19 years later.
ATTORNEYSThe Pete Agostino File — Roseland’s town attorney since at least 2000 — no contract, no appointment vote, and no pay figure anywhere in public.
SPECIAL FILEThe Nikki Lopez File — Found dead at 32, labeled a natural death by 5:36 AM — and a prosecutor who says no agency ever called her.
ORGANIZATIONSThe Mishawaka FOP Lodge 91 File — A police lodge’s decade of deficits in its own tax returns, the staffing deal it co-wrote, and its official Facebook account in the reaction list of File No. 1.