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The Michigan Murders

Author : Edward Keyes
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504025598
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Michigan Murders written by Edward Keyes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a serial killer who terrorized a midwestern town in the era of free love—by the coauthor of The French Connection. In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen alive walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body—stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm—was discovered, partially buried, on an abandoned farm. A year later, the body of twenty-year-old Joan Schell was found, similarly violated. Southeastern Michigan was terrorized by something it had never experienced before: a serial killer. Over the next two years, five more bodies were uncovered around Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan. All the victims were tortured and mutilated. All were female students. After multiple failed investigations, a chance sighting finally led to a suspect. On the surface, John Norman Collins was an all-American boy—a fraternity member studying elementary education at Eastern Michigan University. But Collins wasn’t all that he seemed. His female friends described him as aggressive and short tempered. And in August 1970, Collins, the “Ypsilanti Ripper,” was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole. Written by the coauthor of The French Connection, The Michigan Murders delivers a harrowing depiction of the savage murders that tormented a small midwestern town.

Terror in Ypsilanti

Author : Gregory A. Fournier
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1627874038
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Terror in Ypsilanti written by Gregory A. Fournier and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2016 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the summers of 1967 through 1969, a predatory killer stalked the campuses of Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan seeking prey until he made the mistake of killing his last victim in the basement of his uncle's home. All-American boy John Norman Collins was arrested, tried, and convicted of the strangulation murder of Karen Sue Beineman. The other murders never went to trial, with one exception, and soon became cold cases. With the benefit of fifty years of hindsight, hundreds of vintage newspaper articles, thousand of police reports, and countless interviews, Fournier tells the stories of the other victims, recreates the infamous trial that took Collins off the streets, and details Collins's time spent in prison.

Darker than Night

Author : Tom Henderson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429997087
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Darker than Night written by Tom Henderson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling account of the murders of two hunters in rural Michigan—a mystery that haunted a community and baffled the police for two decades. In the bitter cold of 1985, two buddies from Detroit embark on a hunting trip to the Michigan wilderness, unaware they will soon become the hunted. The eerie silence surrounding their sudden disappearance is broken after nearly two decades when a relentless investigator inspires a terrified witness to break her silence. The witness narrates a haunting scene that had unfolded years back, pointing fingers at the prime suspects—the Duvall brothers. With no bodies unearthed, the justice system is riveted by the startling revelations during an electrifying trial in 2003. The brothers, Raymond and Donald Duvall, had bragged about the murders, evocatively explaining how they dismembered their victims and fed them to pigs. Despite the shocking confession, the case holds its ground purely on a single witness’s account, taking the courtroom through a labyrinth of dark secrets and sinister acts. This gripping thriller presents a vivid tale of crime that reveals the devastating power of evil.

The Snow Killings

Author : Marney Rich Keenan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476642044
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Snow Killings written by Marney Rich Keenan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 13 months in 1976-1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them held for days before their still-warm bodies were dumped in the snow near public roadsides. The Oakland County Child Murders spawned panic across southeast Michigan, triggering the most extensive manhunt in U.S. history. Yet after less than two years, the task force created to find the killer was shut down without naming a suspect. The case "went cold" for more than 30 years, until a chance discovery by one victim's family pointed to the son of a wealthy General Motors executive: Christopher Brian Busch, a convicted pedophile, was freed weeks before the fourth child disappeared. Veteran Detroit News reporter Marney Rich Keenan takes the reader inside the investigation of the still-unsolved murders--seen through the eyes of the lead detective in the case and the family who cracked it open--revealing evidence of a decades-long coverup of malfeasance and obstruction that denied justice for the victims.

Blood on the Mitten

Author : Tom Carr
Publisher : Blood on the Mitten
ISBN 13 : 9781961302013
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Blood on the Mitten written by Tom Carr and published by Blood on the Mitten. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling at its fully imagined best." -Ben Hamper, bestselling author of Rivethead

Cold Case Michigan

Author : Tobin T. Buhk
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467148733
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Cold Case Michigan written by Tobin T. Buhk and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blanketed by forests, dotted by lakes, crisscrossed by rivers and surrounded by Great Lakes, Michigan is a good place to hide secrets, bury bodies and stash evidence. Dig deep enough and you will unearth something sinister. Is the suicide note of a prominent Detroit physician also a confession of murder? Were inmates unlawfully released from Jackson State Penitentiary to carry out a contract killing on a politician before he could turn state's evidence? Who silenced a fiery radio personality known as the "Voice of the People"? Did a notorious serial killer stalk women in Lansing during the 1970s? Join true crime author Tobin T. Buhk as he excavates some of the most vexing unsolved crimes in the history of the Great Lake State.

Isadore's Secret

Author : Mardi Link
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472026569
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Isadore's Secret written by Mardi Link and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Isadore's Secret, Mardi Link shines a journalist's lamp on this dark, quiet corner of Michigan's history, assuring that the tragic story of Sister Janina is not forgotten. Link's telling is fascinating and thorough, making a story you will not soon forget." ---Steve Lehto, author of Death's Door A gripping account of the mysterious 1907 disappearance of a young nun in a northern Michigan town and the national controversy that followed when she turned up dead and buried in the basement of her own church. Swinging planks of lantern light shine through the musty air and onto the dirt floor of the church basement. The oddly glowing rectangles syncopate over the damp ground and illuminate even the darkest, stooped-down corners of the space beyond. The only sound is the ragged breathing of two men, a young parish priest and a much older laborer. Aboveground these men belong completely to this place, in both body and soul. A glimpse of their faces anywhere in the sanctuary, the rectory, the school, the barn, or the gardens would be a welcome sight. But here below, these men of Isadore are interlopers. Only trespassers would sneak silently into the church's sloped underbelly without witness to carry out such a sinful and secret errand as this one. Despite their tools, and their lantern, and their resolve, neither is equipped for the task at hand or for what is to come. Mardi Link, a former crime reporter, was named Antioch's Betty Crumrine Scholar for Creative Nonfiction in 2007. Her first book, When Evil Came to Good Hart, also published by the University of Michigan Press, spent four months on the Heartland Indie Bestseller List. This true story was the basis for the Broadway play The Runner Stumbles and the film of the same name. Front cover: Photograph of cemetery © John L. Russell, Great Lakes Images; image of face ©iStockphoto.com/duncan1890.

Murder in Battle Creek

Author : Blaine L. Pardoe
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625845898
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Battle Creek written by Blaine L. Pardoe and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, Daisy Zick was stabbed twenty-seven times at her home in Battle Creek, Michigan—and locals are still talking about the unsolved case today. On a bitterly cold morning in January 1963, Daisy Zick was brutally murdered in her Battle Creek, Michigan, home. No fewer than three witnesses caught a glimpse of the killer, yet today, it remains one of the state’s most sensational unsolved crimes. The act of pure savagery rocked the community, as well as the Kellogg Company where Zick worked. Here, Blaine Pardoe offers a detailed chronicle of this shocking and mysterious crime. With long-sealed police files and interviews with the surviving investigators, the true story of the investigation can finally be told. Who were the key suspects? What evidence do the police still have on this cold case more than fifty years later? Just how close did this murder come to being solved? Is the killer still alive? These questions and more are masterfully brought to the forefront for true crime fans and armchair detectives.

Clare County Murders

Author : Jon H Ringelberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Clare County Murders written by Jon H Ringelberg and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clare County Murders, 1871 - 2020, presents 67 suspected and actual murders during the 150-year history of Clare County. Four additional murders are presented because of their individual uniqueness - a murdered dog, a murdered and burned body discovered in an icebox, and single fingerprint solving two over 10-year-old murders. From the 1877 murder resulting in the naming of Deadman Lake to Michigan's 3rd largest mass murder in 1982 to a murder-suicide in 2017 Clare County history has averaged a murder every 2.24 years. Shootings, knifings, poisonings, strangulation, suffocation, and other means of murder are all present in a wide variety of Clare County murders.

Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Author : Sonny Longtine
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625848471
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula written by Sonny Longtine and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residents of the idyllic villages scattered throughout the Upper Peninsula's richly forested paradise live in quiet comfort for the most part, believing that murder rarely happens in their secluded sanctuary3/4but it does, and more often than they realize. This collection of twenty-four legendary murders spans 160 years of Upper Michigan's history and dispels the notion that murder in the Upper Peninsula is an anomaly. From the bank robber who killed the warden and deputy warden of the Marquette Branch Prison to the unknown assailant who gunned down James Schoolcraft in Sault Ste. Marie, Sonny Longtine explores the tragic events that turned peaceful communities into fear-ridden crime scenes..

Butcher's Dozen

Author : Lawrence Wakefield
Publisher : Altwerger and Mandel Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Butcher's Dozen written by Lawrence Wakefield and published by Altwerger and Mandel Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Killing Women

Author : Rod Sadler
Publisher : WildBlue Press
ISBN 13 : 1952225280
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Killing Women written by Rod Sadler and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true crime biography reveals the disturbing story of a serial killer who terrorized central Michigan—and now has a chance to go free. As a former youth pastor who attended the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice, Don Miller seemed like a decent young man. But in 1978, he was arrested for the attempted murder of two teenagers. Police soon connected Miller to the disappearances of four women. In exchange for a controversial plea bargain, he led police to the missing women’s bodies. Now, thanks to the deal he was offered and changes to Michigan law, Miller is allowed to seek parole once a year. In Killing Women, author Rodney Sadler examines the crimes, the “justice” meted out, and the possibility that Miller could be unleashed on the world once again.

Murder in the Thumb

Author : Richard W. Carson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780922993772
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Thumb written by Richard W. Carson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night in 1974, fifteen-year-old Robin Adams and her ¿foster sister¿ mischievously consulted a Ouija board. Robin asked the board how long she would live. The board told her she would die before her 17th birthday. About two years later, Robin disappeared from the Caro, Michigan, home where she worked as a live-in babysitter. Local police thought she had run away. Her friends knew better. Robin was having problems with her former boyfriend, who, two weeks earlier, had beaten her. However, with no eyewitnesses, no evidence of forced entry or struggle at the house and no body, the case went cold. In 1982, the case was reopened and assigned to a rookie detective. A ¿psychic¿ began assisting the detective. The psychic predicted that a ¿surprise witness¿ would come forward and identified another suspect who later failed a polygraph test.A break in the case came when the prime suspect¿s younger sister told a boyfriend that she helped commit the crime. She and her brother were charged with murder. The story might have ended after the trial, but it didn¿t. The sister¿s boyfriend suffered a series of injuries, which a medium blamed on black magic. Two trial witnesses died a year apart (same date) and several others connected to the case or members of their families were struck by tragedy. Was some unknown entity extracting vengeance for the shame brought on the killer¿s family? Murder in the Thumb is a powerful true story written by a seasoned journalist.

Wicked Takes the Witness Stand

Author : Mardi Link
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472051695
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Wicked Takes the Witness Stand written by Mardi Link and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twisted account of unsolved murder, vindictive prosecution, and a psychotic key witness whose testimony led to the wrongful imprisonment of five innocent men

True Crime: Michigan

Author : Tobin T. Buhk
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811745104
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book True Crime: Michigan written by Tobin T. Buhk and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance, the Bath School Massacre, the Purple Gang of Detroit, and many more.

The Kill Jar

Author : J. Reuben Appelman
Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 : 1501190008
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Kill Jar written by J. Reuben Appelman and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now the subject of the Discovery+ series Children of the Snow, a cold case murder investigation is cracked open by “a powerful, confident voice in the new true crime memoir genre” (James Renner, author of True Crime Addict). Four children were abducted and murdered outside of Detroit during the winters of 1976 and 1977, their bodies eventually dumped in snow banks around the city. J. Reuben Appelman was only six years old when the murders began and even evaded an abduction attempt during that same period, fueling a lifelong obsession with what became known as the Oakland County Child Killings. Autopsies showed that the victims had been fed while in captivity, reportedly held with care. And yet, with equal care, their bodies had allegedly been groomed post-mortem, scrubbed-free of evidence that might link to a killer. There were few credible leads, and equally few credible suspects. That’s what the cops had passed down to the press, and that’s what the city of Detroit, and Appelman, had come to believe. When the abductions mysteriously stopped, a task force operating on one of the largest manhunt budgets in history shut down without an arrest. Although no more murders occurred, Detroit remained haunted. Eerily overlaid upon the author’s own decades-old history with violence, The Kill Jar tells the gripping story of Appelman’s ten-year investigation into buried leads, apparent police cover-ups, con men, child pornography rings, and high-level corruption saturating Detroit’s most notorious serial killer case. “Always deft, often sublime, Appelman uses his investigation to draw us into his personal journey through darkness, to light and life” (Chip Johannessen, producer of Dexter).

The Murder of Maggie Hume

Author : Blaine L. Pardoe
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162585059X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book The Murder of Maggie Hume written by Blaine L. Pardoe and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One brutal murder. Two possible suspects. And a “fascinating . . . puzzling case” that divided a Michigan community (Lansing State Journal). In the summer of 1982, the body of twenty-year-old Maggie Hume was found under a pile of blankets in the closet of her apartment. A Catholic school girl and daughter of a local football coach, Maggie had been raped and strangled. It was the only active murder investigation in Battle Creek, Michigan, suggesting the case would be an easy victory for authorities. Plus, they already had two persons of interest on watch. Maggie’s neighbor, Michael Ronning, confessed to the crime. Yet it was Maggie’s boyfriend, Jay Carter, who failed the polygraph, and whose account of his whereabouts on the night of the murder kept changing. Unfortunately, the Calhoun County Prosecutor’s Office and Battle Creek Police Department couldn’t agree on whom to charge. And the city soon took sides. Cracking open three decades of never-before-seen evidence, this real-life whodunit exposes the dark secrets and tragic infighting that turned the murder of Maggie Hume into an unwinnable contest of wills, egos, politics, and the law—a contest that, to this day, isn’t over.