Perry Otto Corlew

At about 8:30 p.m. on March 15, 1974, Perry Otto Corlew got into a fender-bender in front of Grayling's Rialto Theater in a car he had just purchased. Instead of waiting for police, he took off. And that was the last anyone saw of him. About 90 minutes later a passing trucker alerted police that Corlew's car was sitting on the side of I-75 about 15 miles south of Grayling. The engine was still running, the headlights were on and the driver's side door was open. But Perry Corlew was nowhere to be seen. Police from Crawford and Roscommon counties called to the scene were baffled. There were no footprints in the snow and no witnesses to what happened. A police report said Corlew may have gone to downstate Michigan or to Florida. And friends said he had talked of going to California. In 1978, his parents thought they spotted him standing in an unemployment line on a national television newscast. They tracked down the report but could not verify the place where the footage was taken because it was shot by a free-lance photographer. Local police and the FBI reopened the case in 1992 and a photo was generated of what Corlew would look like at the age of 40. Also in 1992, his brother Micha

Robert Richard Lepsy

Left his place of employment mid afternoon for lunch on October 29, 1969. His car was found abandoned in a parking lot in Traverse City Michigan 3 days later, doors unlocked, keys in ignition, cigarettes left on dashboard. Declared legally dead in 1976. Took nothing but the clothes on his back.

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