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Cold Case Files

The Missing Hunters

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Two Michigan hunters get in an altercation with local ne’er-do-wells the Duvalls. It ends with the long time friends beaten to death and fed to pigs. Sponsors: Apartments.com: To find whatever you’re searching for and more visit apartments.com the place to find a place. SimpliSafe: Right now, get 20% off any new SimpliSafe system with Fast Protect Monitoring at SimpliSafe.com/COLDCASE There’s No Safe Like SimpliSafe. 

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0:00.0

The first time I heard it I kind of dismissed it, but after the third and fourth time I heard it, I thought maybe there is something to this.

0:10.0

What we learned was that one of the brothers did have pigs are large hogs.

0:16.4

They were extremely mean and would eat anything.

0:20.6

They then jot up the body and fed it to the pigs.

0:27.0

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast.

0:38.0

In Northern Michigan, a rural legend hangs in the air. It whispers in the wind, blows

0:47.0

through the trees, and travels down the road. A tale of two hunters. Downstaters who came to these parts never to return.

0:56.4

The ending makes the rounds in Backwoods bars for close to 20 years.

1:01.2

The beginning, however, is known to but a few.

1:04.0

Deer Hunting Season, 1985, childhood friends David Till and Brian Ogen

1:10.0

joined the Exodus upstate. A three and a half hour trip to a cabin owned by David

1:16.1

Till's family in White Cloud, Michigan. This is David Till's wife, Denise Dudley.

1:21.8

And they were just going to meet up with his brothers and probably play cards and do a little

1:27.2

hunting and just have a relaxing weekend.

1:30.9

The two men leave Friday evening.

1:33.0

Monday morning dawns with no word from the hunters.

1:36.0

I got a call from my mother-in-law and she had informed me

1:40.0

that they never even came or showed up the whole weekend.

1:44.8

Denise Till files a missing person's report with the Troy Police Department.

1:49.0

Philip Steele works the case.

1:51.4

Our initial oppression is that it's so uncharacteristic for them not to have come back that perhaps

1:57.8

something did happen.

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