Michigan Crime Stories

By With Gus Burns

What's Michigan Crime Stories about?

Michigan Crime Stories is MLive’s most popular podcast exploring murder, mysteries and mayhem in the Mitten. Our new four-part season, "Christmas Eve Cannibal" drops Tuesday, May 9. Produced by Jessica Shepherd and reported by Gus Burns. Got a tip for us? Email Gus at [email protected].

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Michigan Crime Stories episodes:

05.09.2023
Christmas Eve Cannibal: Part 3
A question arises as Mark Latunski faces charges in the murder of Kevin Bacon — is he competent to stand trial for the crimes? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.09.2023
Christmas Eve Cannibal: Part 4
Many call Mark Latunski a monster, but he was once a seemingly ordinary husband and father of four children. What changed and when did it change? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.09.2023
Christmas Eve Cannibal: Part 1
On Christmas Eve 2019, a 25-year-old man named Kevin Bacon met up with a contact from the dating app Grindr. He was never seen alive again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.09.2023
Christmas Eve Cannibal: Part 2
On the night of December 27th, 2019, police found Kevin Bacon's naked body hanging from a pulley system in what prosecutors described as a custom kill room in Mark Latunski's basement. Police made the shocking discovery after online chat logs...
09.07.2022
What happened to Breanna? Part 1
Every Jane Doe had a life and has a story. Despite a closed investigation and years in an unmarked grave, Breanna Sharp has a story. And much of it has yet to be told. MLive's Gus Burns has been working...
09.07.2022
What happened to Breanna? Part 2
For years, Breanna's father waited to get answers about his daughter. Then, one day, he got a call he knew would eventually come. (This is part two in a four-part series.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
09.07.2022
What happened to Breanna? Part 3
A four-year search for Breanna led investigators to a Jane Doe in an unmarked suburban Detroit grave. Big questions were answered with the discovery, but even bigger ones still loomed. (This is part three in a four-part series.) Readm ore...
09.07.2022
What happened to Breanna? Part 4
In our conclusion, Gus really dives into the heartbreak experienced by Breanna's family members. And he takes a trip to the place where Breanna's body was found 14 years ago. (This is part four in a four-part series.) Learn more about...
07.12.2022
Coming soon: What happened to Breanna?
A gruesome discovery. A Jane Doe. An unmarked grave. We look at MLive's new season of Michigan Crime Stories, coming soon wherever you get podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
04.14.2022
An Election Day fight
One of the most heated Bay County elections turned violent in 2012 when two sitting county commissioners came to blows outside of a church polling location in Bay City. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad...
11.16.2021
Pinconning Paralyzer: Part 4
In the conclusion of our Pinconning Paralyzer series, we find out if the storied marijuana strain has been resurrected for legal use. WARNING: Adult content See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.09.2021
Pinconning Paralyzer: Part 3
How did Pinconning Paralyzer get its name? And how did it fall out of prominence in the cannabis scene? Gus Burns reveals that, along with details on some Pinconning Paralyzer drug busts, in part 3 of our series. See acast.com/privacy...
11.02.2021
Pinconning Paralyzer: Part 2
We continue our series on the storied Michigan cannabis strain. MLive's Gus Burns tracks down one of the men credited with helping create Pinconning Paralyzer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10.25.2021
Pinconning Paralyzer: Part 1
In the first episode of a special four-part season of Michigan Crime Stories, MLive reporter Gus Burns digs into the story of Pinconning Paralyzer, a legendary Michigan cannabis strain that disappeared. Or so it was believed. That is until two...
10.07.2021
Coming soon: Pinconning Paralyzer
A peek at our upcoming four-part Michigan Crime Stories series, Pinconning Paralyzer. MLive reporter Gus Burns digs into the history of Michigan's most well-known marijuana strain, including crazy parties, intense drug busts and two fishing friends who are both named...
09.09.2019
Flint Serial Stabber
Season 2, Episode 12: A series of seemingly random stabbings in 2010 sent Flint into a state of fear. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.05.2019
Flight Risk
Flight Risk: A legendary aerial escape from the Jackson State Prison. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.22.2019
Cop Killer: By Reason Of Insanity, part 2
A police officer dead. A man with mental illness behind bars. Could it have been avoided? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.08.2019
Cop Killer: By Reason Of Insanity, part 1
The signs were there that Marquise Cromer wasn't well. Then he pulled a gun on a cop. Part 1 in a multi-part special. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.24.2019
The Cold Case, cont.
The informant: Michigan Crime Stories revisits The Cold Case series with an update. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.12.2019
The Walkway
A Jackson Prison inmate walks away from his work crew, murders a married couple, then returns to prison. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.10.2019
The Execution
Michigan has no death penalty, but, for a crime this terrible, one man has been sentenced to die. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.27.2019
Lapsed Justice
DNA identified a suspect in a rape spree. He'll likely walk free. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.13.2019
Civic Doody
A defecation investigation garners nationwide attention. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
04.29.2019
When A Killer Calls
A man calls a newspaper to confess to a murder, but the case remains open. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
04.15.2019
The Unconfirmed Assassin
Was a civil rights leader's slaying a robbery gone wrong or something more sinister? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
04.01.2019
Bloody Business
A shipment of severed heads leads the FBI to a body broker’s filthy Detroit warehouse. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10.22.2018
The Cold Case, part 4
The tangled web: After one woman disappeared, her friend married her ex-boyfriend. Now she’s dead. Season finale. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10.08.2018
The Cold Case, part 3
Till death: A woman’s death looks like a fatal overdose, but her husband has been accused of murder before. Part 3 in a multi-part series. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
09.24.2018
The Cold Case, part 2
The suspect: Reporters delve into the history of a man suspected in the death of one woman and the disappearance of another. Part 2 in a multi-part series. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices....
09.10.2018
The Cold Case, part 1
Decades gone: Three generations of news reporters explore new leads on a decades-old mystery. Part 1 in a multi-part series. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.27.2018
Over The Edge
A woman drops to her death from the Upper Peninsula's Pictured Rocks. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.13.2018
Raise Your Glass
A corrupt 1930s politician receives a hero’s welcome after prison. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.30.2018
Muskegon Massacre
A man who killed his whole family in the Muskegon area meets an eerily similar violent end. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.16.2018
The Rest Stop Murder
Two boys find their mother savagely slain in a deserted rest stop bathroom on the way to the Upper Peninsula. A new development has family seeking answers nearly 40 years later. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about...
07.02.2018
The Jackson Robber Gang
A dangerous cohort of escaped prisoners tormented the Jackson area until one night, in 1842, when Michigan farmers turned to vigilante justice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.18.2018
Good Hart
Fifty years ago, a wealthy Detroit-area family was slaughtered in their Up North cabin. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.21.2018
The Witch of Delray
The true story behind the Detroit legend accused of killing up to a dozen men in her boarding house. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.07.2018
The Rose Tattoo
A woman remained missing for almost 8 years, but authorities knew exactly where she was – they’d buried her. MLive’s Gus Burns tells how a missing woman was both lost and found in Wayne County. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and...
04.23.2018
Pigs Gotta Eat
Pigs Gotta Eat: Two men go deer hunting in northern Michigan and are never heard from again. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
04.09.2018
Killer who slipped through the cracks
The Killer Who Slipped Through the Cracks: How did a confessed killer end up working at a Pennsylvania pretzel factory? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
03.26.2018
Patrolman's Escape
Michigan Crime Stories is MLive’s new podcast exploring murder, mysteries and mayhem in the Mitten. Hosted by MLive reporters Darcie Moran and John Counts.The Patrolman’s Escape: Roles are reversed when two escaped convicts overpower an Ann Arbor policeman and...

What's Michigan Crime Stories about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Michigan Crime Stories episodes:

Christmas Eve Cannibal: Part 3

Christmas Eve Cannibal: Part 4

Christmas Eve Cannibal: Part 1

Christmas Eve Cannibal: Part 2

What happened to Breanna? Part 1

What happened to Breanna? Part 2

What happened to Breanna? Part 3

What happened to Breanna? Part 4

Coming soon: What happened to Breanna?

An Election Day fight

Pinconning Paralyzer: Part 4

Pinconning Paralyzer: Part 3

Pinconning Paralyzer: Part 2

Pinconning Paralyzer: Part 1

Coming soon: Pinconning Paralyzer

Flint Serial Stabber

Flight Risk

Cop Killer: By Reason Of Insanity, part 2

Cop Killer: By Reason Of Insanity, part 1

The Cold Case, cont.

The Walkway

The Execution

Lapsed Justice

Civic Doody

When A Killer Calls

The Unconfirmed Assassin

Bloody Business

The Cold Case, part 4

The Cold Case, part 3

The Cold Case, part 2

The Cold Case, part 1

Over The Edge

Raise Your Glass

Muskegon Massacre

The Rest Stop Murder

The Jackson Robber Gang

Good Hart

The Witch of Delray

The Rose Tattoo

Pigs Gotta Eat

Killer who slipped through the cracks

Patrolman's Escape