On the night of August 3, 1992, Peru, Indiana attorney and former county prosecutor James Hurst Grund, 47, was found dead on a bedroom sofa at his Summit Drive home with a single gunshot wound through his left eye. A 911 call placed shortly before midnight came from his wife, Susan Grund, who told the dispatcher there was blood on him and suggested he may have interrupted a burglar.

First impressions at the scene included overturned suitcases and a ransacked jewelry cabinet, but investigators noted troubling inconsistencies. James was discovered in a comfortable position on the sofa with bills, checks and the TV remote on the coffee table and a tissue in one hand, and a forensic technician described the room’s disarray as seeming unnatural, possibly staged. Suspicion shifted toward Susan Grund as evidence accumulated that contradicted her initial account.

The case went to trial and on March 23, 1994, a jury found Susan Grund guilty of murdering her husband; three weeks later the judge sentenced her to 60 years in prison. Does anyone have information about James Grund’s life in Peru or details about the period leading up to August 1992?