You are listening to the Already Gone podcast, sharing stories of the missing, the murdered, the mysterious, and the lost.

This week's episode covers a particularly vicious and disturbing murder.

Listener discretion is strongly advised.

When I was a kid, growing up in Oakland County, I thought someday I would live in Clarkston.

It's a town at the northern end of the county, and 20-some years ago, North Oakland County was just a couple of small towns, like Clarkston, Leonard, Holly, and Lake Orion.

There's no shortage of waterfront up there, places like Deer Lake, Whipple Lake, and Park Lake.

Clarkston is close to Pine Knob, an outdoor concert venue where my favorite

bands play each summer. In the winter, Clarkston is home to the Pine Knob Ski Resort. Clarkston was

settled in the 1820s, and by the 1850s, with the arrival of the railroad, visitors from Detroit traveled to the area to hunt, fish, or just get away from the big city for some fresh air.

While it's considered a suburb of Detroit, Clarkston is some 40 miles from downtown, and in many aspects it's a world away.

Edward Hawke grew up in Clarkston. His wife, Shirley, she was

raised in nearby Pontiac. When the two married, they decided to raise their family, a son,

Perry, and two daughters, Renee and Monica, and Clarkston. They lived in a house not too far from the Mill Pond Dam. Their three kids attended

Clarkston schools. Mom Shirley worked outside the home and managed the house and raised the three

children, a labor of love. Shirley prided herself on the closeness of her family. But instead of staying at Clarkston

High School to get her diploma, Monica dropped out, leaving school at the end of her junior year.

Her parents weren't real happy about that decision, but she was working. Monica landed a job

with one of the automakers at a plant in Pontiac.

Harry was working as well. He had recently paid off his car and spent much of his free time with his toddler daughter who lived with her mother.

Everything in their world is normal, ordinary, steady. All of this is about to change. A series of tragedies will befall them,

putting tremendous strain on the happy, close-net family. Come with me to March of 1979,

when the world that Ed and Shirley Hockey created for their three beloved children took a dark and

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