Summary of Tom Henderson's Darker than Night

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#1 The tradition of hunting in Michigan is a father-and-son activity, as well as a mother-and-daughter activity. The state’s Department of Natural Resources stopped referring to the deer as animals and began referring to them as if they were rows of corn or soybeans.

#2 On November 22, 1985, Brian Ognjan and David Tyll went hunting together. They had never even bought deer licenses, thinking that since they were on private property, they didn’t need them.

#3 The Tyll brothers, Dave and Brian, were going to hunt together. Dave was eight years younger than Brian, but they were extremely close. They had worked together for a landscaping company owned by one of David’s old schoolmates.

#4 The hunters went to White Cloud, after all. Janice wrote Brian a check for $50 to go with the $40 he had to make sure he had enough spending money. They had been talking of marriage.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822507135

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The tradition of hunting in Michigan is a father-and-son activity, as well as a mother-and-daughter activity. The state’s Department of Natural Resources stopped referring to the deer as animals and began referring to them as if they were rows of corn or soybeans.

#2

On November 22, 1985, Brian Ognjan and David Tyll went hunting together. They had never even bought deer licenses, thinking that since they were on private property, they didn’t need them.

#3

The Tyll brothers, Dave and Brian, were going to hunt together. Dave was eight years younger than Brian, but they were extremely close. They had worked together for a landscaping company owned by one of David’s old schoolmates.

#4

The hunters went to White Cloud, after all. Janice wrote Brian a check for $50 to go with the $40 he had to make sure he had enough spending money. They had been talking of marriage.

#5

On Friday, Janice was worried when Brian didn’t come home. She called David’s other brother, Larry, who was Brian’s roommate. Brian hadn’t come home yet. He hadn’t called over the weekend.

#6

The search for the boys proved to be fruitless. Everyone seemed to have seen them somewhere, but no one could confirm they’d been in White Cloud.

#7

The Walter Reuther Freeway runs due west out of St. Clair Shores and connects to I-75, which goes north, and to I-96, which goes west. In 1985, Ognjan and Tyll could have either gone west to I-75 on the surface street later made famous by Eminem, 8 Mile Road, or wanting to avoid all its red lights, they could have headed downtown on I-94.

#8

The owners of Walker’s Bar and Bowling Alley in Mio, Paul and Beverly Pasternak, saw the missing hunters twice. They remembered them because they played pool with a man known as Coke, for the thickness of his glasses.

#9

Some people let their bad eyesight fool them. But Coke was a tough guy, unpredictable. He was the sort of person you kept your eye on. Welch warned the two young men about the law in Mio, and how it was strict about drinking and driving.

#10

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