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

murdered, the mysterious, and the lost.

Welcome to the 100th episode of Already Gone.

Thanks go out to Monica who was the first of many to ask that

the story be told and I want to thank you the listeners for helping the show reach

this milestone. Before we continue, it's never easy to hear about a family

annihilator and this week's content is exceptionally disturbing.

Listener discretion is advised.

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

The Book of Mark, Chapter 3

A Bible was found open to this page in the living room of the house at 2121 Garson Street in Troy, Michigan on September 29, 1964.

The southwest end of the city of Troy borders both Birmingham and Royal Oak, and wedged

between Coolidge Highway and Oakland County's Troy Airport is a Meyer store. Meyer is a Michigan-based chain very similar to

Walmart and this location of Meyer opened in the mid-1970s. In those dark days it was called Meyers Thrifty Acres. Today, as you

head north on Coolidge, likely on your way to Somerset Mall, or the Somerset Collection, as it's now known,

you probably won't notice the little cemetery on Coolidge.

It's set back from the road, a small fenced in rectangle, just in front of and slightly north of the Meyer Store.

Originally, this was the Perrin Family's burial ground, and the cemetery dates back to the early

part of the 1800s. This small plot of land was known by many names over the

years, the Anderson Ridge Cemetery, the Coolidge Cemetery, and finally the Perrin Cemetery, which is how it's referred to today.

When I was a kid, I lived not too far from the Smyr's store, and my father and I often went there

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