October 1994, bow hunters in a remote area of Alcona County Michigan discover human remains. In the last 23 years her remains have been tested against the DNA of dozens of missing persons, including Laura Lee Alber who was last seen in Lansing, Michigan in 1990.

Despite improvements in forensic testing, the victim is identified only as Alcona County Doe. This is the last episode of 2017 and the first time that Already Gone has explored a case involving unidentified remains.

During this episode we discuss the NAMUS program and the work being done by the Alcona County Sheriff to give a name to this victim.

Special thanks to Alcona County Sheriff’s Deputy Nathanael Leeseburg for the interview.

Thanks also to Tim Flutur and Luke Superior for their musical contributions to this and other episodes.

Update - 11-13-2023 she remains unidentified. 

As the year winds down we perk things up with a True Crime Broad Cast, interviewing Michigan author Karen Dybis about her new book:  The Witch of Delray: Rose Veres & Detroit's Infamous 1930's Murder Mystery.

We also talk history, landmarks and Detroit. I hope you'll join us. 

Check out Karen's Amazon store: http://amzn.to/2AUQjNZ

January 1998, Sudbury, Ontario. 23 year old Renee Sweeney is working by herself at the Adults Only Video Store on Walford Road. 

Around 11:15 a.m. a man enters the store and attacks Renee, stabbing her repeatedly. He flees the store and is never seen again. 

ARREST MADE IN THE CASE - 2018! GUILTY 

#Canada, #Murder,  #Ontario

In December of 2002 Marco Pesce was a father of three children and the owner of Italia Jewelers in Livonia Michigan. 

The night of December 21 two men attacked and robbed the family, leaving five dead and a community in terror.  Within days the killers were turned in by their own family members who were horrified at the brutality of the murders.

#Murder, #Michigan, #Livonia,

22 year old Kelly Nolan would disappear after a night out with friends in Madison, Wisconsin. Her remains would be discovered July 9 in a remote wooded area south of town.

Includes an interview with Joel DeSpain of the Madison Police department.

#murder, #unsolved, #Wisconsin

January 8, 1982 Thomas Randolph and his wife Sharron enjoy a meal at their favorite Chinese restaurant in Southfield.

The couple is assaulted after leaving the restaurant, leaving Thomas injured and his wife dead. It's an 18 year journey to solving the murder, with an ending that no one saw coming.

#Michigan, #murder, #coldcase

Supplemental audio - Fatal Attraction S4 E16

In September 1979 Kim King slipped away from her friends house, made a late night call to her sister and was never seen or heard from again. 

Could her case be related to the Oakland County Child Killer? 

#unsolved, #Michigan, #missing, #OCCK

2023 Update - Kim's case remains open and unsolved. She is still missing. 

In 1977 Carson McDowell was a 43 year old married father of two. An executive at General Motors. A family man, friend and neighbor. 

So why did he end up tortured and murdered by the side of the railroad tracks in Ferndale? Why is his case so hard to solve? 

#murder #unsolved #generalmotors #Dearborn #Detroit 

May, 1975, two cousins, Scott Hardy and Mark Mellendorf walk from Mellendorf's home in Lapeer County Michigan to Tody Lake for some fishing.

When the boys don't return home, their parents raise the alarm and searchers scour the woods for hours trying to find the young boys. The next morning, a tracking dog makes a horrific discovery on the southern end of the lake. Both boys are dead and there is a killer on the loose in this idyllic community.

Days later a second boy, Willie Walters, takes his fishing gear to Kearsley Creek, he too doesn't return. His battered body is discovered the next morning.

These horrific crimes happened just a few miles north of the hunting grounds favored by the Oakland County Child Killer in 1976-1977.

#Michigan, #Murder, #OCCK

In 1991 and 1992 a small community in the upper peninsula of northern Michigan was rocked by the brutal murders of two women.

It would take a break in at the home of a third woman to bring this unlikely murderer to justice.

#Michigan, #Yooper, #Serial murder

Hillary Norskog was only 13 years old when she became the first victim of a serial murderer near Chicago Illinois. While his parents attempted to shield Steven Pfiel from his responsibility in her death, they could not stop him from killing again. 

#serial #murder #Illinois

Tuesday December 9, 1997. 23-year-old Laney Gwinner meets up with friends at a local bowling alley in Fairfield, Ohio. She shot a few rounds of pool, had a couple of beers and left just after midnight, headed to her boyfriend’s nearby apartment.

Laney won’t arrive, in fact, she’ll never be seen alive again.

  Follow the Justice for Laney group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/38837478756

update - 2023 this case remains open and unsolved. 

In 2012, 23 year old Julia Niswender was chasing her dreams. A student at Eastern Michigan University, her goal was to work as a broadcast journalist.

One December evening, someone entered her off campus apartment and murdered her. Her death devastated her mother and twin sister, and the investigation into her murder would tear the family apart.

Update - this case remains open and unsolved.