When evil came to Good Hart
By: Mardi Link.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780472116669; 9780472033157
Subjects: Mass murder -- Michigan -- Good Hart
Description: From the Publisher: In this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link details all the evidence to date. She crafts her book around police and court documents and historical and present-day statements and interviews, in addition to exploring the impact of the case on the community of Good Hart and the stigma that surrounds the popular summer getaway. Adding to both the sense of tragic history and the suspense, Link laces her tale with fascinating bits of local and Indian lore, while dozens of colorful characters enter and leave the story, spicing the narrative. During the years of investigation of the murders, officials considered hundreds of tips and leads as well as dozens of sources, among them former secretaries who worked for murder victim Dick Robison; Robison's business associates; John Norman Collins, perpetrator of the "Co-Ed Murders" that took place in Washtenaw County between 1967 and 1969; and an inmate in federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, who said he knew who killed the Robison family. Despite the exhaustive investigative efforts of numerous individuals, decades later the case lies tantalizingly out of reach. It is still an unsolved cold case, yielding, in Link's words, forty years worth of "dead-end leads, anonymous tips, a few hard facts, and countless cockamamie theories."
Table of contents: title: A stranger comes to town; title: Call the law; title: Will be back; title: The boss; title: The mentals; title: The phony; title: Gun country; title: Following the money; title: The tipsters; title: A leg man; title: The alibi; title: Closing in; title: The case for prosecution; title: The Leavenworth letter theory; title: Another killing; title: Manhunts in the north woods; title: The sleuths; title: The good people of Good Hart; title: A bliss house; title: The literary ladies of Lamkin; title: A healing; title: Epilogue: status of case no. 7471.