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Unsolved

Robison family murders

Year
1968
Where
Michigan
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
1
What the record says

The Robison family murders (also known as the Good Hart murders) are an unsolved mass murder which occurred in the secluded resort area of Good Hart, Michigan, on June 25, 1968. The victims were a vacationing upper-middle-class family from Lathrup Village who were shot and killed inside their Lake Michigan holiday cottage, with two decedents also bludgeoned with a hammer prior to death. Their bodies remained…

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