Summary of Edward Keyes's The Michigan Murders

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#1 When Marilyn Pindar did not come home on Sunday night, her sister, Sheila, was alarmed. She and a couple of friends had dropped by the apartment a little after 7:30 the previous evening, to find her sister out, and after waiting a few minutes, had left. They had not heard from Marilyn since.

#2 The typical missing persons case is some restless student taking off on a lark. In such environments, the police are usually hard pressed to find anything suspicious.

#3 Following her disappearance, the Pindars showed themselves to be people of extraordinary self-possession. They remained on the surface unruffled. The father returned to his job, the mother to her normal household routine.

#4 The Marilyn Pindar case was opened up on July 11, when Detective Lieutenant Vern Howard was assigned to it. He pieced together a timeline of her last known movements on Sunday, July 9, the day she went missing. She went to church, then to the university, and finally to Silver Lake.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822582446

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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 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 25

Insights from Chapter 26

Insights from Chapter 27

Insights from Chapter 28

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

When Marilyn Pindar did not come home on Sunday night, her sister, Sheila, was alarmed. She and a couple of friends had dropped by the apartment a little after 7:30 the previous evening, to find her sister out, and after waiting a few minutes, had left. They had not heard from Marilyn since.

#2

The typical missing persons case is some restless student taking off on a lark. In such environments, the police are usually hard pressed to find anything suspicious.

#3

Following her disappearance, the Pindars showed themselves to be people of extraordinary self-possession. They remained on the surface unruffled. The father returned to his job, the mother to her normal household routine.

#4

The Marilyn Pindar case was opened up on July 11, when Detective Lieutenant Vern Howard was assigned to it. He pieced together a timeline of her last known movements on Sunday, July 9, the day she went missing. She went to church, then to the university, and finally to Silver Lake.

#5

It was known that Marilyn had returned to her apartment around 8:45 P. M. An E. U. campus policeman had seen her walking alone toward Hamilton Street around that time. Five or ten minutes later, a man on the porch of his house on Hamilton Street had seen her walking alone toward Washtenaw.

#6

By the time Marilyn had been gone a week, the six remaining children had accepted that they would not see her alive again. They prayed not so much that she be found alive but just that she be found.

#7

The days passed without much progress by the police. Lieutenant Howard had the Comet thoroughly examined by police technicians, but they found no clues. They also learned that Marilyn had recently taken a trip to Canada, and while they didn’t have much hope it would turn up anything, they had to check it out.

#8

The case became the most frustrating vacuum for Howard. It was almost impossible for anyone, even a 19-year-old coed, to lose herself without a trace.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

On August 7, two teenage boys found a black, misshapen object in a corn field in rural Superior Township. It had to be some kind of dead animal, but