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Who Killed...?

Who Killed David Widlak?

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Who Killed David Widlak?Victim: David WidlakCEO of the Community Central Bank Corporation and Community Bank62 years old at the time of deathSunday, September 19: David Widlak disappeared from his bank. He left on foot and his car was discovered the next day in the parking lot around 7:00 the following morning by a maintenance worker. When this maintenance worker went to Widlak’s office he found it trashed.October 17: Duck hunters discovered a body, which was later determined to be Widlak, in the marshland of Lake St. Clair, outside of Detroit. His body was floating in about 1 foot of water. This was less than 5 miles from the bank. David was still wearing the clothing he was last reported wearing and he still had his phone, keys, and wallet. October 20: Widlak’s gun was discovered just a few feet from where his body was. His hat was also found, but deep in the woods. From the beginning, the police were treating this as a disappearance/suicide.There was a discrepancy between the initial autopsy conducted by Macomb County medical examiner Daniel Spitz and the most recent one performed by Oakland County doctor L.J. Dragovic in 2010. Spitz who conducted the first autopsy had determined the cause of death to be undetermined. He stated he found no obvious wounds, and no blunt force trauma and proceeded to state he may have drowned. A second autopsy was done by Dragovic (hired by the Widlak family) and the cause of death was determined to have been an “execution-style” gunshot wound in the mid-back of Widlak’s neck.Anyone with tips, please call: 1-800-CALL-FBIIf you know anybody or are dealing with suicidal thoughts, there is help:National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Call 1-800-273-8255 Sources: Detroit Free Press, Mlive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We came and noticed the same thing that he brought to our attention. Attempted to get a hold of somebody that might know where he's at. Nobody had any information of his whereabouts. Got a hold of his wife who was out of town for business. And she indicated he was supposed to have called her this morning at 6.30 that call never came through. She became very concerned with him. We tried to call his phone. We tried to do some background checks as to where he might be.

0:21.6

Nobody has any information to his whereabouts. So very suspicious at this time.

0:25.6

Whitlack disappeared the evening of September 19th. Surveillance video showed him leaving through the back door the corporate offices of Community Central Bank.

0:34.6

As you know, we've been looking for David Woodlack. Anytime we're doing an investigation, we have recognized over the years of service that we provided the public. The most important part of any investigation is that first 24 to 48 hours. We continually try to press for information, try to press, to get the answers to the question of where these missing people are. This is no different. We're speculating as to where

0:54.3

did he go? Did he walk into the neighborhoods? Did he try to harm himself? Did he meet up with

0:58.2

somebody, get into a vehicle, drive away? We do not have the answer to that. So what we're doing

1:02.3

here today is if there is that likelihood or possibly that he may have tried to harm himself,

1:07.1

could he be in one of these areas around here?

1:32.0

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Who Killed Amy Mahalovic.

1:40.3

I'm your host Bill Huffman, and this is a podcast that takes a deep dive into cases you may not have heard of and others you may have.

1:43.3

This week's episode is a bit of a mystery. The case involves a suspicious disappearance,

1:47.0

a bank in the middle of a financial crisis, and a pretty shoddy autopsy. This is one of those

1:53.2

cases where you don't understand how investigators reached their conclusions. Was this a suicide,

1:59.9

or was this murder?

2:02.3

This episode is one where you take the evidence and you decide who killed David

2:09.1

Whitlack.

2:12.2

Do you find anything?

2:13.4

No, we came up with nothing that would give us any indication or any clue as to where he might

2:16.9

be, but that's not unusual. And again, it's still something we do just to try to add to... No, we came up with nothing that would give us any indication or any clue as to where he might be.

2:18.4

But that's not unusual. And again, it's still something we do just to try to add to our attention for the public to say, hey, if you see something, you know something's going on, please let us know. And again, the unfortunate reality is even up until this point, there's been nothing that's come across on a transaction from anything, be it some kind of a technology, whether it's his phone, a computer, email.

2:39.1

Nothing has come across that would give us indication that he's using it,

2:42.2

nor anything that deals with financial.

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