Michigan's real life Deliverance case.
I saw this case profiled many years ago on Forensic Files. The eyewitness was justified in her mortal fear of testifying. Even in places where murder is basically non-existent, there are rough customers. It's generally advisable for people from out of the area to keep a low profile in places like rural taverns.
Link: https://bridgemi.com/outdoors-life/hungry-pigs-feral-brothers-and-the-michigan-hunting-trip-that-ended-in-murders/
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I don’t recall this story…
but it’s true that there is a plethora of hillbillies in Michigan.
One time I stopped by my folks' place and there was a car with Illinois plates parked on the lawn.
I grew up on 10 acres bordering a Class A trout stream. The car was parked down by one of the mowed trails to the river. I went inside and asked my dad, "Did you tell someone they could park on the lawn?" He yelled "No!" and high-tailed it outside. We checked out the new Cadillac parked on the lawn, and then we walked down the path to the stream. There stood an immaculately dressed (for fishing) gentleman in his late sixties and my father yelled, "What are you doing!" The guy clumsily extracted himself from the stream as my dad read him the riot act about parking on his lawn. The guy tried explaining, "I have a map!" We informed him his map was wrong. Then my father tried to make him really scared, saying something like, "I don't know how you're going to get out of here without damaging my lawn!" The guy was a nervous wreck by this point, but he was being compliant, so we just let him drive, very carefully, out to the street. Anyways, what I didn't tell the guy was that he was really lucky that he picked our land, which was inhabited by semi-civilized people, and not a mile and a half upstream, where the Dombrowski's lived. Their family tree did not fork. I remember the first time my mom drove by their place and saw them outside. She got home and told me, "They had faces like pigs!" So they did/do/. I have little doubt that if this city slicker had parked on their lawn, there would've been a missing person from Barrington, Illinois, never to be seen again, and the Dombrowskis would've been seen driving around in a newer Cadillac in pristine condition.