Michigan State Police Report on Case No. 7471
Michigan State Police crime scene photographs
Fred Lovelace’s photographs for the Petoskey News-Review, July 1968
Emmet County Sheriff’s Office radio log for July 1968
Interviews with Sheriff Pete Wallin, May 31, 2007, and July 10, 2007
Paul E. Petosky, Postmarks from the Past, a regular column in the Great Lakes Marina newspaper and a Web site, http://postmarks/grandmaraismichigan.com
Emmet County tax certificate dated October 25, 1910
Brochure from Chippewa Cove Woods
Historical signs posted along M-119, The Tunnel of Trees
“Mystery Shrouds Area of Mass Murder since Indian Legend Days,” by Bob Clock, Petoskey News-Review, August 1, 1968
Michigan State Police Report on Case No. 7471
Michigan State Police crime scene photographs
Autopsy files of Emmet County medical examiner Dr. Richard Weber
Letter from pathologist Dr. Jean Webster to Jensen’s Animal Hospital dated July 30, 1968
Emmet County medical examiner’s property recovery form dated July 23, 1968
Interview with Aileen Fox by Al Koski, 1968
“Probe Emmet Mass Murder; Family of Six Found Dead at Blisswood,” by Fred Lovelace, Petoskey News-Review, July 23, 1968
“Rule Mass Murder Premeditated,” Petoskey News-Review, July 24, 1968
“Zink Returns to Head Robison Probe,” by Bob Clock, Petoskey News-Review, July 26, 1968
“Slayer of 6 Hidden by Lack of Motive,” Detroit News, August 9, 1968
“4 Bodies Exhumed in Robison Investigation,” The Eccentric, November 1, 1968
Michigan State Police Report on Case No. 7471
Interview with accountant Cal Mackey conducted at his office at 10½ Mile and Greenfield and Oak Park on November 24, 1969, by Detectives Lloyd Stearns and John Flis
State police interview with Richard Stockwell, former R. C. Robison and Associates employee
State police interview with Ross Robison, Dick Robison’s father
State police interview with Joseph R. Scolaro III
State police interview with Pastor Harvey Peters of Calvary Lutheran Church in Southfield, Michigan
State police interview with Dr. Alexander Dukay of Ypsilanti State Hospital
Results of Walter Muellenhagen’s polygraph test
Autopsy files of Emmet County medical examiner Dr. Richard Weber
New Catholic Dictionary
Writings of Richard Robison
Editorials published in Impresario Magazine
“Victims Close-Knit; Did Things Together,” by Bob Clock, Petoskey News-Review, July 24, 1968
Michigan State Police Report on Case No. 7471
Emmet County Sheriff’s Office report
Historical records of the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane
“Deadlier Than the Snake Pits? Reporter’s 5 Days in an Asylum,” by Stephen Cain, Detroit News, June 27, 1971
Michigan State Police Report on Case No. 7471
Interview with accountant Cal Mackey conducted at his office at 10½ Mile and Greenfield and Oak Park on November 24, 1969, by Detectives Lloyd Stearns and John Flis
Interview with Dr. Roger Smith and Margaret Smith, friends and neighbors of the Robisons, by Al Koski, 1969
Interview with retired Michigan State Police detective John Flis at his home, by Al Koski, July 18, 1998
State police interview with Joe Scolaro
Obituary of J. Raymond Scolaro, Joe Scolaro’s father
Military records of Joe Scolaro
Telephone records for Summerset, the Robisons’ Good Hart cottage, and for Joe Scolaro’s Wallace Street home in Birmingham
Financial records of R. C. Robison and Associates
Michigan State Police Report on Case No. 7471
Emmet County Sheriff’s Office report
“Where Is the Gun That Killed the Robison Family?” by Joseph E. Wolff, Detroit News, June 27, 1971
“Problem of Ecology & Economics,” by Keith Matheny, Petoskey News-Review, July 1, 1997
Michigan Department of Natural Resources hunting season records
State police ballistics report on Case No. 7471
“Find 14 Spent .22 Shells in Robison Cottage Closet,” Petoskey News-Review, September 14, 1998
Interviews with Sheriff Pete Wallin, May 31, 2007, and July 10, 2007
Financial records of R. C. Robison and Associates
State police interview with Roger and Margaret Smith
State police interview with Detroit National Bank manager Frank Joity
Walter Muellenhagen’s notes on Dick Robison’s new business venture
State police interview with Ross Robison
Oakland County Probate Court records from July 1968
State police interview with accountant Cal Mackey
State police interview with New Hudson Airport managers Arnold Park and William McKinley
Telephone records for Dick Robison’s home on Dolores Street in Lathrup Village
State police interview of Joe Scolaro
State police interview with Helen Hoeft, secretary at Delta Faucet
Records of Oakland County assistant prosecutor and forensic accountant Eugene Freedman
“Big Airport Deal Adds New Mystery to Robison Case,” United Press International, September 5, 1969
“A New, Startling Report on the Bizarre Events and Strange Dealings That Foreshadowed Murder,” by William Schmidt and Al Koski, Detroit Free Press, November 8, 1970
Michigan State Police Report on Case No. 7471
Emmet County Sheriff’s Office report
Letter from Sheriff Richard Zink to Martin S. Hayden, editor of the Detroit News, August 7, 1968
Typed letter addressed to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, October 4, 1972
Memo from unknown state police detective to Captain Guy Babcock, September 15, 1969
Letter from an anonymous correspondent to attorney general Frank J. Kelley, July 28, 1988
State police interview with Karl Olbrich and friends
Telephone records of Joe Scolaro’s Wallace Street home in Birmingham
“Reward Offered in Unsolved Mass Murder,” by John Charles Robbins, Petoskey News-Review, June 24, 1998
“Police Ask News’ Aid in Robison Murders,” Detroit News, August 11, 1968
“Is Key to Robisons’ Killer in Classified ad?” by Joseph E. Wolff, Detroit News, January 5, 1969
“Robison Murders Year Ago—Still No Motive,” by Bob Clock, Petoskey News-Review, June 25, 1969
“Detroiter Confesses to Good Hart Murders—but Is Another Phony,” by Bob Clock, Petoskey News-Review, April 24, 1969
Michigan State Police Report on Case No. 7471
Emmet County Sheriff’s Office file
State police interview with Wanda Hensley Britt
State police interview with Gail Cornforth Barnes
State police interview with Bonnie Jean Scrull
State police interview with Corrine Loop Newton
State police interview with Glenda Sutherland
State police interview with Leo Sawchuck
Financial records of R. C. Robison and Associates
Polygraph examination of Joe Scolaro
State police interview with Ernest Gilbert
State police interview with Richard Stockwell
Cleveland Police Department report on Raymond Britt
Palm Beach Shores Visitors and Convention Bureau
State police interview with Virgil Wheaton
“Religious Medal May Be Clue to Mass Murder Mystery Man,” Detroit News, March 24, 1969
Michigan State Police Report on Case No. 7471
The Blue Book of Gun Values, 28th ed., (Blue Book Publications, 2007)
Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors, by Rex Feral (Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 1983)
Two-color pamphlet advertising the AR-7 produced in the mid-1960s by the Armalite Corp.
Memo from gun expert Harold Gunder to Emmet County sheriff’s detective Jerry Hartman, September 1, 1991
State police interviews with Lora Lee Scolaro
State police interview with Walter Muellenhagen
Weather report of June 25, 1968, for Southfield, Michigan, and Good Hart, Michigan
State police investigation photos of the basement of the Robison home on Dolores Street in Lathrup Village, Michigan
Financial records of R. C. Robison and Associates
State police interview with Margaret Smith
Michigan State Police Report on Case No. 7471
Southfield, Michigan, police report of the suicide of Joe Scolaro
Michigan State Police photographs of Albert Faulman’s target range on Elizabeth Lake Road outside the town of Union Lake, Michigan
Interview with Herbert Johnson by Detectives Lloyd Stearns and John Flis, November 12, 1969, at Johnson’s place of work, the Utley-James Construction Company in Pontiac, Michigan
Letter from Charles Meyers, Senior Crime Laboratory Analyst, retired, to Sheriff Richard Zink, dated July 29, 1988
Michigan State Attorney General records
The Criminal Mind by Katherine Ramsland, PhD (Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest, 2002)
“Arrest Robison Associate over Insufficient Checks,” United Press International, September 15, 1969
“Robison’s Associate Charged with Fraud,” The Eccentric, September 18, 1969
“Robison Murder Suspect Found Dead,” by Jim Herman, Detroit News, March 9, 1973
Michigan State Police Report on Case No. 7471
Emmet County Sheriff’s Office files
State police interviews with Joe Scolaro
Letter from Emmet County prosecutor Donald C. Noggle to Sheriff Richard Zink dated January 13, 1970
Statement from Petoskey News-Review reporter John R. “Bob” Clock to Sheriff Richard Zink, signed but undated
Memo from unknown State Police detective to Captain Guy Babcock dated September 15, 1969
Virginia Tech study by the Campus Alcohol Abuse Prevention Center in Blacksburg, Virginia
Al Koski interview with Bill Glass, notes dated March 3, 2000
Telephone conversation between author and Al Koski, September 16, 2007
State police interview with chief assistant Oakland County prosecutor Ronald Covault
“Harbor Youth Killed in Crash Is 3rd in Week in Emmet County,” Petoskey News-Review, June 24, 1968
“Noggle Reviewing Robison Evidence from State Police,” by Fred Lovelace, Petoskey News-Review, January 6, 1970
“Robison Murders Believed Solved,” by Joseph E. Wolff, Detroit News, January 6, 1970
“Noggle Expects Robison Decision Soon,” Petoskey News-Review, January 7, 1970
“Noggle: Not Enough Evidence for Arrest—But Robison Massacre Case Not Closed,” by Fred Lovelace, Petoskey News-Review, January 14, 1970
Michigan State Police Report on Case No. 7471
Letter from Alexander Bloxom to Michigan State Police, January 12, 1970
Michigan State Police criminal history card for Alexander Bloxom, October 10, 1957
Kansas Branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation records of an interview of Alexander Bloxom by Special Agent Jack H. Williams
State police interview with Alexander Bloxom
State police interview with Mark Warren Brock
State police interview with Robert Matthews
State police interview with Walter and Bessie Bloxom
“Retired Detective’s Theory: Suicide Ended Case in 1973,” by Al Koski, Oakland Press, July 22, 1998
“Backhoe Bandit Says He Was Attacked,” by Sheri McWhirter, Traverse City Record-Eagle, August 8, 2007
Official request for laboratory examination from Detective Bobra Johnston to the Michigan State Police Forensic Science Division, August 1, 2002
Letters dated May 1, May 10, May 12, May 13, and May 20, 2002, from Linda Venn of Davison, Michigan, to Emmet County law enforcement and court officials
Laboratory report from Michigan State Police forensic scientist Jeffrey Nye to Detective Bobra Johnston dated June 25, 2003
Laboratory report from Michigan State Police Firearms, Toolmarks and Explosives Sub-unit dated June 25, 2003
State of Michigan Department of Public Health report dated August 15, 1968
Interviews with Sheriff Pete Wallin, May 31, 2007, and July 10, 2007
Emmet County Sheriff’s Office official Web site
Multiple news accounts of the murder of Tara Grant
Crime Lab: A Guide for Nonscientists by John Houde (Rollingbay, WA: Calico Press, 2006)
“Continue Search for Mass Slayer,” by Bob Clock, Petoskey News-Review, July 25, 1968
“Sheriff Hopes for Closure, Finality in Baffling Murder That Shocked Area 35 Years Ago,” by Al Koski, Petoskey News-Review, May 20, 2003
“Murder Case DNA May Not Be Usable,” by Steve Zucker, Petoskey News-Review, May 21, 2003
Michigan State Police Report on Case No. 7471
Telephone conversation between author and Al Koski, September 16, 2007
E-mail exchanges with Al Koski, August and September 2007
Interview with Judith Guest, September 12, 2007
Appearance by Judith Guest at the Lincoln, Michigan, public library, September 12, 2007
Interview with Tom Mair, June 9, 2007
Al Koski’s interview with state police detective John Flis
The Michigan Murders by Edward Keyes (New York: Reader’s Digest Press, 1976)
Letter from Dean R. Luedders of the Real Estate Division of the National Bank of Detroit to Undersheriff Clifford Fosmore, August 27, 1968
Letter from attorney general Frank J. Kelley and assistant attorney general Robert Ianni of the Criminal Division to post commander Lt. David Leik, August 29, 1988
State police interview with Reverend Harvey Peters
Handwritten notes from the files of the Emmet County Sheriff’s Office on a sheet of paper from a yellow legal pad, dated “8–12”
Letter from Tom Mair to Aileen Fox, July 11, 1994
Letter from Aileen Fox to Detective Lloyd Stearns
“Seek Link in Robison Murders,” by Jane Denison, United Press International, August 4, 1969
“Robison Massacre Site Will Be Torn Down,” by Joseph E. Wolff, Detroit News, September 5, 1968
“To Raze Murder Cottage in Unsolved Emmet Case,” by Bob Clock, Petoskey News-Review, February 24, 1969
“Obsession; Veteran Reporter Writing Book on Good Hart Murder Case,” by Deidre Tomaszewski, Petoskey News-Review, October 20, 2000
“On the Trail of a Killer,” by Tom Mair, Northern Express, August 2004
“Retired Harbor Springs Teacher Offers Opinion on Murders,” by Janenne Irene Froats, Petoskey News-Review, July 23, 1993
“Tip Line Continues in Robison Murders,” by John Charles Robbins, Petoskey News-Review, October 23, 1998
“Murders Became an Obsession to Reporter,” by Steve Zucker, Petoskey News-Review, May 20, 2003
“How the Retired Man May Serve His Country,” by John J. Gafill, American Forests Magazine, June 1962
“Mystery Has Long Shrouded Good Hart Area,” Petoskey News-Review, August 10, 1968
Personal letters of Bishop Baraga. Archives of Bishop Baraga, Diocese of Marquette, Michigan
Interview with Stephanie Guyor, October 13, 2007
Driftwood Journal by Monnie Bliss
Interview with Sheriff Pete Wallin
Interview with Virginia Taylor, August 20, 2007
House tour and interview with Linda Bolton, August 19, 2007
Interview with Trina Hayes, August 19, 2007
Interview with Bonnie Bliss Weitzel, October 13, 2007
Interview with Carolyn Sutherland, June 2, 2007
Northern Michigan real estate listings
Issues of the Driftwood Journal by Monnie Bliss
“Fred and Maree Baxter at The Pebble and Timber Bend 1930 to 1950,” a diary of Good Hart summer visitor Maree Baxter, compiled by her grandson, Fred Cunningham, May 2006
Brochure for Blisswood, 1955
Web site for Blisswood resort, www.blisswoodmichigan.com
Attendance at the August 20, 2007, meeting of the Good Hart Book Club, aka “The Literary Ladies of Lamkin”
Interview with Trina Hayes, August 19, 2007
Interview with Linda Bolton, August 19, 2007
Interview with Stephanie Guyor, October 13, 2007
Interview with Bonnie Bliss Weitzel, October 12, 2007
The Indians of Hungry Hollow by Bill Dunlop (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004)
State police interview with Margaret Smith
State police interview with Walter Muellenhagen
Interview with Bonnie Bliss Weitzel
Interview with B. Anne Gehman
Al Koski’s interview with Aileen Fulton
State police interview with Aileen Fulton
Typed note from State Trooper John Flis to Sheriff Richard Zink dated April 5, 1971
Interviews with Sheriff Pete Wallin, May 31, 2007, and July 10, 2007
Interviews with Corporal J. L. Sumpter, July 10, 2007