Already Gone Podcast – True Crime
Lesser known stories from the Great Lakes Region
Tag Archives: #Michigan
The Murder of Jane Mixer
Jerald Wingeart – serial killer?
From 1961 until his arrest in 2001 women around him have a way of disappearing or being assaulted. Is Jerry Wingeart a serial killer? You decide.
Sources/additional reading
Steven Charles Wingeart
Jerald Wingeart Prison listing
Dawn Magyar Wikipedia (has photo)
Ann Arbor News 1961
Justia 1
Justia 2
THe murder of Ricky Holland
Caution, this episode discusses child abuse and murder.
In July of 2005 Ricky vanished from his home in Williamston Michigan. An intensive search was performed with assistance from hundreds of volunteers and multiple police agencies. Ricky would finally be found when his “father” revealed what actually happened to the little boy at the hands of his “mother”
THe murder of Karen King
January 3, 1997, 18 year old Karen King leaves the family home in Saginaw, Michigan to pick something up from the local market. She won’t be seen alive again.
Source List:
Teenkillers.org Justia
6th Circuit Court
OTIS website
Lansing State Journal Archives
Detroit Free Press Archives
Elias Abuelazam
In the summer of 2010 the community of Flint, Michigan was stalked by a knife wielding man who focused his murderous rage primarily on Black men in the community. When he was taken in to custody, he left more than a dozen gravely injured men and five deaths in his wake.
This episode explores the life and many crimes of serial killer Elias Abuelazam.
The bath school Massacre
May 18, 1927, the worst school attack in US history took place. Most people have never heard of it.
“Criminals are made, not born”
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Sources/Additional Reading
Bath Massacre – America’s First School Bombing
Find a Grave – Multiple entries
Emory Huyck
Beatrice Gibbs
Hazel Weatherby
Ellen (Nellie) Price Kehoe
Andrew Kehoe
who killed me? Akita Ervin
In the summer of 1992, 15 year old Akita Ervin lived in a mobile home in White Lake Township, Michigan with her mother and her mother’s live in boyfriend. While Akita had a history of running away, there was more to the story, and that became terrifyingly clear when her decomposed remains were discovered in late June.
If you have information on her death, please contact White Lake Township Police
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115 The murder of Terry Sutter
Labor day weekend, 1973. Fifteen year old Terry Sutter sets out for a party, he’s last seen entering the woods near Frankfort, Michigan with a six pack of beer.
The next morning, his brutally beaten and partially dressed body will be found at the bottom of a bluff on the edge of Lake Michigan.
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113 The stuart Family Murders
On Valentine’s Day 2018 45 year old Lauren Stuart of Keego Harbor, Michigan set in motion a plan that would lead to the violent destruction of her entire family.
If you need help or support, please contact
http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ or your local crisis center.
112 Connie Royce – Missing in Michigan
On June 1, 1990, 24 year old Connie Royce went to the Hayloft Bar in Mt Clemens, Michigan. She was on a date with a new guy, Greg, and Greg’s friend, “Brad” tagged along.
About 11pm, while Greg was in the restroom, Connie fled the bar, carrying her shoes. She left her handbag behind. Connie would never be seen again.
Her case is under the jurisdiction of the Macomb County Sheriff’s Department.
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Have you heard Don’t Talk to Strangers? Nina’s longform podcast about the Oakland County Child Murders.
111 The Murder of Ally Brueger
On a Sunny day in July 2016, 31 year old Alexandra “Ally” Brueger was out for a 10 mile run in the community near the home she shared with her parents in Rose Township, Michigan. The quiet afternoon was shattered by four blasts from a shotgun, the last shot reaching it’s mark, striking Ally Brueger and ending her life. Her case remains unsolved. #Murder #Michigan #Unsolved #Shotgun
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Missing in Michigan – Jody Lynn Brant
Episode 106 – Memorial Day weekend, 1994. Sixteen year old Jody Lynn Brant leaves her home in Gwinnett County Georgia to make the 12 hour drive north to Oakland County Michigan.
She’s planning to spend the long weekend with her cousins in the Pontiac area. Jody never arrives and days later, her car is found torched in a remote part of Monroe County Michigan.
If you have information about Jody’s case, please contact the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department.
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Additional reading:
June 1994 article from The Toledo Blade
104 The Murder of Becky Stowe
In July of 1993 15 year old Becky Stowe disappeared from her friends house near Niles, Michigan. While law enforcement, her family and the community searched for her, a teenage boy, a “friend” of Becky’s, knew the truth.
103 Missing in Michigan – Bernice Gray
On the morning of December 26, 1991 Bernice Gray dropped her toddler daughter off at day care and headed for work. Gray didn’t arrive at work, and wouldn’t be seen again. Days later her bloodstained car was found abandoned in Detroit.
It would take a decade for the man responsible for her disappearance and murder to be brought to justice.
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