Episode 25 – Lyle Kopenkoskey
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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🗓️ 24 June 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Music Credits:
George Cattapan - Background Tension
Kai Engel - Encore Tender
Kai Enge – January
Kai Enge - Will I Ever See Another Sunrise
Kai Enge – aspirato
Kai Enge - Between Nothing and Everything
Kai Enge – Seeker
Philipp Weigl - Full of Stars
The Minds Of Madness Theme Music – Duncan Foster
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Music provided by George Cattapan - http://www.cattapanproductions.com/
The Funkoars – Feel The Madness
Used with Permission - http://goldenerarecords.com.au/ge/funkoars/
Research - Kait Morris
Writing - Mari Coleman
Special Guests:
JL Sumpter - Former Detective Sergeant for Emmet County, Michigan
Stuart Fenton - Chief Assistant Prosecutor for Emmet County, Michigan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Just after 5 a.m. on October 2nd, 2012 in Potoski, Michigan, 911 dispatchers received a call from a man by the name of Carl Copencoski. |
| 0:42.0 | 9-1-1? |
| 0:43.0 | My brother went to work this morning at about 5 30 or so on. |
| 0:48.0 | I am at his truck right now. |
| 0:50.0 | Standing on a remote countryside road, beside his brother Lyle's red pickup truck, Carl had made |
| 0:55.8 | the call out of concern for his missing brother. |
| 1:00.7 | Only a short time before, as Carl and his wife Tony had laid in bed, Lyle's wife Carol, had |
| 1:06.8 | called to tell them her husband had never made it to work that day. |
| 1:11.8 | She had received a call from Lyle's employer who had found it strange and thought |
| 1:16.4 | to check in. Being the hard-working, reliable man that Lyle was. This was highly unusual. |
| 1:25.0 | As they heard the concerning news, Tony recalled seeing Lyle's truck earlier that day, parked along the side of the road. |
| 1:35.0 | Carl immediately drove out to the deserted side road where his wife had indicated she |
| 1:40.8 | had last seen Lyle's truck. |
| 1:45.1 | And there it was, exactly where Tony had remembered seen at last, but there was no sign of Lyle. |
| 1:53.4 | It didn't take long for deputies to arrive on the scene and begin a search for Carl's |
| 1:58.4 | missing brother. |
| 2:00.9 | As they began to comb the sides of the road and into the ditches, they soon stumbled |
| 2:06.4 | across the body of Lyle Copenkowski. |
| 2:11.6 | When I picked up Lyle's shirt and saw that he had bullet wounds with his back, and it was very clear |
| 2:17.8 | that we had a houndrel. |
| 2:20.6 | The 58 year old had been shot several times in the back and once in the The |
| 2:23.2 | 58-year-old had been shot several times in the back and once in the head. |
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