S5 Ep110: The Cabin

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History, True Crime

4.9 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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For nearly a month, a picturesque cabin on northern Lake Michigan hid a ghastly secret. The bodies of wealthy ad executive Dick Robison, his wife Shirley, and their four children lay waiting for someone to find them following a brutal attack on a summer afternoon. From the moment a caretaker stumbled upon the murder scene while investigating reports of a foul odor coming from the property, nothing would ever be the same in the small town of Good Hart.

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0:00.0	This is a Scream Queen production.
0:05.7	These violet delights have violet ends.
0:13.3	Violet ends.
0:16.9	Violet ends.
0:19.7	Greetings, Earthlings. Welcome to the season five finale of Violent Ends.
0:26.7	I'm your host, Jen Carpenter.
0:29.9	As this tradition, we'll be talking about an infamous Michigan Massacre to close the season out.
0:36.8	Perhaps the most infamous Michigan Massacre. Massacre. Here we go. We're up to an amazing start. You guys have been requesting this one for years. So, buckle up Buttercups because you're in for a wild ride. Up north is a subjective
1:00.4	term here in Michigan. Where up north begins depends on where you live. So for me, here in
1:08.2	Lansing, I consider up north to be anything north of Mount Pleasant,
1:12.9	while others consider it to be anything north of Clare,
1:16.5	while others still don't consider anything up north until it's at the very tippy top of the mitten,
1:22.9	on the fingernails, if you will.
1:25.5	The small village of Goodhart, located on the fingernail of your ring finger,
1:31.7	if you're looking at your hand as a map of Michigan, qualifies as up north, regardless of where in the
1:38.5	lower peninsula you're located. It's way up there. It's about 230 miles due north of Lansing. It sits right on the Lake Michigan shoreline along M119, which is also known as the Tunnel of Trees. And if you're not from Michigan, I'm just talking gibberish right now. So, stop. It is located in Emmett Township. No, it's not. It's located in Emmett County. And the largest nearby town is Patoski, which is so pretty small. It's got a population of under 6,000. Like most of Michigan and the rest of the country, Goodhart began its days as indigenous land,
2:20.3	home to an Odawa Indian village. The land was sold, heavy quotes around the sold,
2:27.1	to a white man for $1 in the 1800s, and in 1910 it was incorporated as Goodhart.
2:36.9	Around the 1950s, it became home to a private development known as Blisswood.
2:42.9	Summer cottages made of stone and log nestled into the dunes and woods along Lake Michigan,
2:49.2	parceled and sold off to some of Michigan's most well-to-do
2:53.3	residents by builder Chauncey Bliss and his son, whose name was also Chauncey, but who went by
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