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🗓️ 1 November 2025
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On November 14, 1991, Thomas McIlvane returned to the Royal Oak Post Office after his employment was terminated.
Researched by Charity Dodd, Written By Nina Innsted
Audio Production by Bill Bert
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| 0:00.0 | Jennifer vanished sometime in the overnight hours. |
| 0:04.0 | Right now there is no trace. |
| 0:06.0 | Investigators say evidence lead them to believe that she's dead. |
| 0:09.0 | Stick my nose back on the trail. That's all I can do. |
| 0:13.0 | This is already gone. |
| 0:15.0 | Already gone. |
| 0:17.0 | Already. |
| 0:18.0 | All ready. All right. |
| 0:30.4 | Going postal is a slang phrase many of us have heard or even used before. |
| 0:40.8 | The phrase originated in the late 1980s and early 1990s after a series of high-profile workplace shootings committed by disgruntled postal service workers. One of the earliest and best known of these shootings happened in |
| 0:47.3 | Edmond, Oklahoma in August of 1986. When 44-year-old postal worker Patrick Sherrill opened fire on his coworkers, killing 14 and injuring six others, before turning the weapon on himself. |
| 1:02.5 | Another of these horrific workplace shootings happened in the Detroit area in 1991. |
| 1:08.4 | Come with me to an overcast day in November, 1991, when 30-year-old Thomas McElvane opened fire at the post office in Royal son of a Marine veteran, his mother left when he was a young child, leaving Thomas and his two siblings to be |
| 1:45.7 | raised by a single father. Home was a modest brick bungalow, and Thomas grew up wanting to |
| 1:53.6 | emulate his father's toughness. Friends recalled that young McLevane was interested in karate |
| 1:59.3 | and martial arts from a young age, |
| 2:01.9 | often practicing his moves in the garage. After graduating from high school, Thomas followed |
| 2:08.3 | in his father's footsteps, enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Okinawa, Japan, |
| 2:14.5 | and at the 29 Palms Base in California. |
| 2:22.9 | Marines who served with him described him as both intense and volatile. |
| 2:29.4 | One peer recalled an incident where McLevane drove a tank over someone's car following an argument. |
| 2:30.7 | This incident led to him being discharged from the Marines. |
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