Anyone familiar with this 1968 mass murder in Michigan? Or read either of these books?

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After 40 years, unsolved Good Hart slayings still mystify and fascinate

BY VANESSA MCCRAY
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GOOD HART -- Bold headlines blared the jarring news.

"Family of six found slain near Petoskey" read one newspaper. "Police follow cold trail after mass murderer seeking motives" screamed another.

The slayings of the Robison family at their cottage near Good Hart gripped northern Michigan during the summer of 1968. Forty years later, the case still baffles, frightens, intrigues.

"Those things aren't supposed to happen in northern Michigan, are they?" said Emmet County Sheriff Pete Wallin. "It's probably one of the largest unsolved mass murders in Michigan history."

A massacre like that, at a place like Good Hart, continues to captivate. To understand why, one must return to June 25, 1968, to the Lake Michigan cabin where a family spent their last summer...


http://www.record-eagle.com/features/local_story_174100020.html


Another article about the case is here: http://www.hourdetroit.com/Hour-Detroit/June-2008/A-Web-of-Intrigue/





When Evil Came to Good Hart (Paperback)
by Mardi Link (Author)
• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional (June 25, 2008)
• ISBN-10: 0472033158


Dead End (Paperback)
by James J. Pecora
• Paperback: 284 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (October 3, 2006)
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• ISBN-10: 1412085209