Article: SHOULD COOPER DIE? VICTIM'S FAMILY DIVIDED

Article: LOCAL ACTIVIST WILL PROTEST EXECUTION WILLIAM PELKE ...
Post-Tribune (IN);  November 28, 1995 ;     634 words ...THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. SOCIAL ISSUES Portage resident William Pelke will wear a warm coat and carry a strong set of convictions as he heads to Michigan City tonight for the early-morning execution ...

Article: PELKE, COOPER TRADE LETTERS PRISON OFFICIALS WON'T ALLOW VISIT
Post-Tribune (IN);  February 29, 1988 ;     700+ words ...PHOTO (COLOR) William Pelke sorts through letters from Paula ... SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. William Pelke says he has never written so many ... Cooper. Those people, his father, Robert Pelke, and his aunt, Francis Fidler ...

Article: VICTIM'S GRANDSON PLANS TO RESUME BID FOR MERCY
Post-Tribune (IN);  May 18, 1987 ;     421 words ... ... ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. William Pelke, grandson of a slain Gary Bible teacher, said Sunday he ... is one of Italy's most popular television programs, William Pelke said, and is viewed by millions each week. Pelke, whose ...

Article: ON FORGIVENESS
Post-Tribune (IN);  May 14, 1987 ;     341 words ... ... sticking their noses into our judicial system. Why would William Pelke go to Rome to ask for forgiveness? I never realized that Rome had the Omnipotent living there. I wonder if William Pelke will tell how his grandmother, the Sunday school teacher ...

Article: PELKE'S GRANDSON TO GO TO ROME ON COOPER'S BEHALF
Post-Tribune (IN);  May 9, 1987 ;     700+ words ...PHOTO WILLIAM PELKE THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION ... Christian. It is what my grandmother would have wanted," said William Pelke, 39, of Portage during an interview with the Post-Tribune Friday ...

Article: ORR SAYS 2 MILLION ITALIANS CAN BE WRONG HE WON'T ACT ON COOPER ...
Post-Tribune (IN);  June 15, 1988 ;     661 words ... ... working to have her sentence commuted. Ruth Pelke would have wanted it that way, William Pelke said. "That is the kind of person she was," William Pelke said. At the time Cooper was sentenced Indiana law allowed the execution of someone ...

Article: DEATH PENALTY FOES PLAN 17 DAYS OF STATE ACTIVITIES
Post-Tribune (IN);  December 16, 1991 ;     651 words ...PHOTO - 3 PAULA COOPER, WILLIAM E. VANDIVER, WILLIAM PELKE THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE ... by Murder Victim Families for Reconciliation, said William Pelke, a member of the group who lives in Portage. The group ...