You are listening to the already gone podcast sharing stories of a missing, the

murdered, the mysterious, and the lost. In 1974, Joseph Molinaire and Gordon Stachinhauer are a couple of losers riding out their prison term at a work farm outside of Marquette, Michigan.

Marquette is best known as a college town. It's located in the center of the northernmost part of the upper peninsula.

Marquette sits on the southern end of Lake Superior, and if you travel south of Marquette,

you'll find mile after mile of woods with the occasional farm or homestead.

Molinare was supposed to be improved, be rehabilitated.

He'd recently completed a behavior modification program through the Michigan Correctional System,

and his reward for completing the program involved him being moved from prison to the work farm.

Molinair wasn't happy at Magnum Farm.

The same issues that led to him ending up in prison continued to plague him.

The farm was a place where prisoners resided on the honor system,

passing time until they finished their sentence and could be released back to society.

Sure, there was work to be done, but you were outside, working with your hands, and had a significantly better setup than the men being held at the nearby prison.

Instead of being grateful for the freedom of the by prison.

Instead of being grateful for the freedom the farm afforded, Molinair was bitter to be held at all.

The slender dark-haired 29-year-old thought he should not have been sent up in the first place.

He should be with his lady, living his life.

Both Molinair and 26-year-old Stachinhauer were in prison on assault charges. To use a term that my father often employs,

Molinair was no choir boy. He had multiple arrests for assault, including arrests in 71 and another in 73.

Stachnauer was serving a two to four-year sentence for felonious assault,

and Molinair was in for 18 months for attempted felonious assault.

If you listen to Stauchonauer, it was all Molinaire's idea.

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