Historical True Crime - Forgotten Michigan Murders presented by Allie Seibert

Due to content of the program, this is advised to be an ADULT PROGRAM. 

Author and historian Allie Seibert has released her newest book, Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan’s Darkest Murders Forgotten By Time is a gripping narrative nonfiction work that uncovers five long-forgotten murder cases from across Michigan between 1879 and 1931. Each story once dominated headlines, but was ultimately lost to time. Until now.

Through deep archival research, including newspaper clippings, trial transcripts, vital records, photographs, and handwritten letters, Seibert Stories in Bloodstained include: reconstructs these haunting crimes in vivid detail.  The documents she references have never been published, offering new insight into crimes that shaped their communities and shocked the public, but have since slipped through the cracks of history. 

Bloodstained dives into the darker corners of Michigan’s past. But perhaps more than that, it examines the ways crime, fear, and mental illness were handled in earlier eras, and how those same patterns still echo today. By reassembling these long-buried cases, Seibert offers not only a fresh perspective on Michigan history, but a reflection on justice, memory, and the human cost of being forgotten. A Hadley man who murdered his wife and child in 1879 and faked a suicide to avoid capture. A Flint woman who shot her lover in 1931, then created a life is even more fascinating than her criminal past. A man in Grand Rapids who used matrimonial ads to lure women across the Midwest in 1916, and who may have been one of Michigan’s first serial killers. A 1917 unsolved murder of a teenage girl in Alma with newly uncovered evidence. The 1929 murder of a woman in Kalamazoo who was accused of being a witch. By bringing these forgotten cases back into the light, Bloodstained invites readers to reflect not just on the past, but on the stories we choose to preserve-- and those we let slip away.

  Allie Seibert's web page www.householdhistory.com 

This 1 hour program will talk about her writing and process with a half hour for q&a .