On Tuesday, Porter County Sheriff Detective Dan Alonzo walked the jury in John Silva’s trial through the department’s evidence collection from Kerner’s grandparents’ home March 2 and March 3, 2019. Silva, 20, of Hamlet was charged May 22, 2020, with two felony counts of aiding, inducing or causing murder in the perpetration of a robbery and two felony counts of aiding, inducing or causing attempted robbery in connection with the Feb. 25, 2019, deaths of Molley Lanham, 19, of St. John, and Thomas Grill, 18, of Cedar Lake.
