Michigan Crime Stories

On the night of December 27th, 2019, police found Kevin Bacon's naked body hanging from a pulley system in what prosecutors described as a custom kill room in Mark Latunski's basement. Police made the shocking discovery after online chat logs led them to Latunski's home, but the shock wouldn't end with the body. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Christmas Eve 2019, a 25-year-old man named Kevin Bacon met up with a contact from the dating app Grindr. He was never seen alive again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many call Mark Latunski a monster, but he was once a seemingly ordinary husband and father of four children. What changed and when did it change? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A question arises as Mark Latunski faces charges in the murder of Kevin Bacon — is he competent to stand trial for the crimes? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A four-year search for Breanna led investigators to a Jane Doe in an unmarked suburban Detroit grave. Big questions were answered with the discovery, but even bigger ones still loomed. (This is part three in a four-part series.) Readm ore on Breanna's story here: https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2022/09/breanna-sharp-13-died-in-a-stairwell-no-one-reported-her-missing-no-one-seemed-to-care.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our conclusion, Gus really dives into the heartbreak experienced by Breanna's family members. And he takes a trip to the place where Breanna's body was found 14 years ago. (This is part four in a four-part series.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For years, Breanna's father waited to get answers about his daughter. Then, one day, he got a call he knew would eventually come. (This is part two in a four-part series.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every Jane Doe had a life and has a story. Despite a closed investigation and years in an unmarked grave, Breanna Sharp has a story. And much of it has yet to be told. MLive's Gus Burns has been working for years to deliver that story. Here's the first of a four-part series about the life and death of a 13-year-old Detroit girl who seemed to be forgotten by much of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A gruesome discovery. A Jane Doe. An unmarked grave. We look at MLive's new season of Michigan Crime Stories, coming soon wherever you get podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the most heated Bay County elections turned violent in 2012 when two sitting county commissioners came to blows outside of a church polling location in Bay City. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the conclusion of our Pinconning Paralyzer series, we find out if the storied marijuana strain has been resurrected for legal use. WARNING: Adult content See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did Pinconning Paralyzer get its name? And how did it fall out of prominence in the cannabis scene? Gus Burns reveals that, along with details on some Pinconning Paralyzer drug busts, in part 3 of our series. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We continue our series on the storied Michigan cannabis strain. MLive's Gus Burns tracks down one of the men credited with helping create Pinconning Paralyzer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the first episode of a special four-part season of Michigan Crime Stories, MLive reporter Gus Burns digs into the story of Pinconning Paralyzer, a legendary Michigan cannabis strain that disappeared. Or so it was believed. That is until two old friends, who both happen to be named Terry, went on a fishing trip in 2020 and started talking about the good old days. And some good old weed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A peek at our upcoming four-part Michigan Crime Stories series, Pinconning Paralyzer. MLive reporter Gus Burns digs into the history of Michigan's most well-known marijuana strain, including crazy parties, intense drug busts and two fishing friends who are both named Terry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season 2, Episode 12: A series of seemingly random stabbings in 2010 sent Flint into a state of fear. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The tale of a basement pig who, neighbors believed, may have had an appetite for human flesh See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Flight Risk: A legendary aerial escape from the Jackson State Prison. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A police officer dead. A man with mental illness behind bars. Could it have been avoided? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The signs were there that Marquise Cromer wasn't well. Then he pulled a gun on a cop. Part 1 in a multi-part special. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The informant: Michigan Crime Stories revisits The Cold Case series with an update. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A Jackson Prison inmate walks away from his work crew, murders a married couple, then returns to prison. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michigan has no death penalty, but, for a crime this terrible, one man has been sentenced to die. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

DNA identified a suspect in a rape spree. He'll likely walk free. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A defecation investigation garners nationwide attention. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A man calls a newspaper to confess to a murder, but the case remains open. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Was a civil rights leader's slaying a robbery gone wrong or something more sinister? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A shipment of severed heads leads the FBI to a body broker’s filthy Detroit warehouse. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The tangled web: After one woman disappeared, her friend married her ex-boyfriend. Now she’s dead. Season finale. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Till death: A woman’s death looks like a fatal overdose, but her husband has been accused of murder before. Part 3 in a multi-part series. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The suspect: Reporters delve into the history of a man suspected in the death of one woman and the disappearance of another. Part 2 in a multi-part series. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Decades gone: Three generations of news reporters explore new leads on a decades-old mystery. Part 1 in a multi-part series. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A woman drops to her death from the Upper Peninsula's Pictured Rocks. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A corrupt 1930s politician receives a hero’s welcome after prison. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A man who killed his whole family in the Muskegon area meets an eerily similar violent end. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Two boys find their mother savagely slain in a deserted rest stop bathroom on the way to the Upper Peninsula. A new development has family seeking answers nearly 40 years later. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A dangerous cohort of escaped prisoners tormented the Jackson area until one night, in 1842, when Michigan farmers turned to vigilante justice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Fifty years ago, a wealthy Detroit-area family was slaughtered in their Up North cabin. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The true story behind the Detroit legend accused of killing up to a dozen men in her boarding house. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A woman remained missing for almost 8 years, but authorities knew exactly where she was – they’d buried her. MLive’s Gus Burns tells how a missing woman was both lost and found in Wayne County. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pigs Gotta Eat: Two men go deer hunting in northern Michigan and are never heard from again. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Killer Who Slipped Through the Cracks: How did a confessed killer end up working at a Pennsylvania pretzel factory? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michigan Crime Stories is MLive’s new podcast exploring murder, mysteries and mayhem in the Mitten. Hosted by MLive reporters Darcie Moran and John Counts. The Patrolman’s Escape: Roles are reversed when two escaped convicts overpower an Ann Arbor policeman and take him hostage. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.