Unsolved

Unsolved looks in the case of David Gionet

Marvel Anderson was just 16-years-old when she was last seen in St. Ignace, late in the afternoon on May 2, 1994. Her body would not be found until September of the following year in a remote part of Mackinac County, and soon her death would be ruled as a homicide. David Lyden and videographer Josh Monroe spoke with detectives and those who knew Marvel about the long search for answers.

This month marks 10 years since someone hit and killed Kelly Boyce Hurlbert in Traverse City. Police have reviewed thousands of tips, but still haven't been able to make an arrest. 9&10's David Lyden and videographer Josh Monroe take an in-depth look at the case in this edition of Unsolved.

Have you ever wanted to help solve a cold case? Some students at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo are doing just that. They’ve already helped Michigan State Police solve one case and are pouring through a fresh round of cases and evidence this semester. These student's aren't doing suspect interrogations but they are helping State Police with what can be one of the most time consuming parts of a cold case. “So at first we started scanning documents from cold cases that detectives have given us to do. Then we make that into a collapse pdf file for detectives to look through on their phone to make it easier for them to go through big binders full of just paperwork of all of these cases,” said one student. Condensing all that material down from boxes and boxes of files to a searchable PDF saves detectives countless time and energy when chasing down potential new leads, and sometimes those leads or ideas on where to turn next come straight from the students. All that meticulous work paid off in 2022 when State Police announced the arrest of a man tied to a west Michigan cold case. “I know it makes it sound really good, doesn't it? I love this. We have 100% success. I keep telling everybody that real quick,” said Dr. Ashlyn Kuersten who leads the program. “I think for me the kind of biggest moment was attending Patrick Gilham sentencing. I was involved with the Roxanne Wood case, and getting to go down there and see that moment of justice and closure and get to meet her family really just drove home how big and important the work we're doing here is,” said Student McKenzie Stomman And all that 'in classroom' experience is translating to invaluable 'real world' experience. “These students really are the leaders of tomorrow. They are the most educated people that we have in American society. And so regardless of what they decide to do, how cool is that that they have seen in detail what a police file looks like? They have seen in detail what good policing looks like? I think that's really important considering many of the controversies that are going on in American society today,” said Dr. Kuersten.

Unsolved is a true crime podcast series from 9&10 News. Each month, David Lyden will dive into an unsolved crime in northern Michigan. We told you back in July how Mackinac County Deputies finally solved a 25 year old cold case using forensic genetic genealogy. The case of Baby Garnet is one that's haunted investigators since 1997. Investigators immediately went to work gathering what evidence they could. Reports from 1997 say an autopsy showed they baby girl was practically a newborn. In the meantime, the close knit community surrounding the campground named the baby 'Baby Garent' and gave her a proper burial at the local cemetery. Detectives chased down what leads they had, but were never able to make an arrest. Fast forward several more years, and modern day technology entered the picture.

Unsolved is a true crime podcast series from 9&10 News. Each month, David Lyden will dive into an unsolved crime in northern Michigan. It is Mason County’s oldest cold case: the shooting death of Luther Foster. Foster was a prominent community member and leader in the early days of Ludington.

Unsolved is a true crime podcast series from 9&10 News. Each month, David Lyden will dive into an unsolved crime in northern Michigan. The 1989 murder of Shannon Siders in Newaygo County drew national attention as police spent decades trying to find who killed her. Brothers Matthew and Paul Jones were convicted in 2015 of killing Shannon, but the case is getting a fresh look. A private investigator is now convinced the jones brothers are innocent. Bill Proctor spent decades working as an investigative reporter. He now spends his days working as a licensed private investigator.