Murder in the Thumb
By: Richard W. Carson
Publisher: Marquette Books LLC
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Spokane, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780922993772
Subjects: Murder; Investigation; Trials (Murder); Trials, litigation; Parapsychology and crime
Notes: A teenager uses a Ouija board to foretell her death; a "psychic" leads police to witnesses and a crime scene; and a Roman Catholic priest/lawyer for the defense all add up to a stranger but true murder trial in the Thumb of Michigan. A history making investigation became the first instance in Michigan where prosecutors charged murder on circumstantial evidence, without a body, and the first time state police ever used a forensic anthropologist and a forensic archaeologist to assist in the crime lab.