The body of Laurel Jean Mitchell was found in the Elkhart River in rural Noble County just off of this bridge. (Police file photo)

There has been a setback in the unsolved murder case of Laurel Mitchell.

This morning, Indiana State Police Detective Kevin Smith said a lead on a youth musical group that performed in North Webster on the night of Aug. 6, 1975, led to the wrong group of performers.

Given the name of a group known as “Celebrate the Son,” Detective Smith spent about a week searching for members of that group. This morning he said he made contact with one of the members and, in an email to StaceyPageOnline.com, Detective Smith noted, “It is clear to me that they are not the group of young people from the Delphi area who stopped at the North Webster Fire Department that night. None of the members of Celebrate the Son are from the Delphi area.”

Detective Smith is once again looking for the name of the musical group and its members from Delphi, Ind., who would have been between the ages of approximately 16 and 20 years old when they performed at the Cokesbury Inn in August 1975. Anyone with knowledge of that group or any of its members are urged to call 260-403-2841. “I just want to talk to them to see if they saw anything,” he explained.

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