The following podcast contains dramatizations of actual events.

Certain situations, dialogue, names, and locations may have been changed.

Some scenes are graphic in nature.

Listener discretion is advised. Up next a family mourns an unexpected death.

They came to the conclusion she fell off the step stool and rolled it accidental.

But some things about the scene don't add up.

Was it as it appeared initially or is there something else going on?

Local police assure everyone,

there is no foul play.

A grieving family disagrees.

They hired a private investigator

to take a second look.

And he finds that quiet rural neighborhoods

can harbor some very dark secrets.

They'd only been there for a few months.

The finger pointed straight at him. Michigan is divided into the upper and lower peninsulas. The lower

peninsula is famous for being shaped like a mitten. The tiny village of

Hubbardston, home to less than five hundred a They all kind of know each other. I love the town of Hubbardston.

For all her 80 years, Hubbardston was home to Bernita Cunningham.

The mother of seven and grandmother of ten was known to everyone as Billy.

Mom and dad went to school together

and then after dad got back from the service,

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