Also on today’s date

On July 30, 1975, Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa disappeared without a trace from the Machus Red Fox restaurant on Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Township.  His body was never found and he was legally declared “presumed dead” in 1982.  The case remains unsolved.

This should shock no one who reads this blog, but here’s what the internet says about how mobbed up Oakland County was back in the day:

Organized crime was highly prevalent, deeply entrenched, and exceptionally powerful in Oakland County, Michigan, during the 1970s. As Detroit’s wealthy northern suburbs expanded, the local Mafia—known as the Detroit Partnership or the Tocco-Zerilli crime family—shifted much of its operations and personal residences into Oakland County.

Rather than standard street-level gangs, organized crime in 1970s Oakland County was characterized by high-stakes white-collar corruption, multi-million-dollar illegal gambling rings, labor union racketeering, and high-profile assassinations.

And you thought people just moved there back in the day for the good schools.

 

Alexandra (Ally) Brueger was murdered 10 years ago today while out on a run in broad daylight in Oakland County

Another year has passed with no resolution in the murder of 31-year-old Ally Brueger, who was gunned down while out running mid-day on Fish Lake Road in Rose Township, Oakland County.

This coverage from 2023 sure was triggering:

https://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/family-of-murdered-jogger-says-investigation-was-mishandled-calls-on-ag-to-take-case

Ally’s case is being digitized and evaluated by the Western Michigan University Cold Case Program.

https://wmich.edu/coldcase/alexandra-brueger

Tragic and so frustrating.

 

MI AG Files Emergency Appeal to Reverse Parole of Convicted Child Rapist, Secures Stay of Release

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is working to keep child rapist Roederick Hunter, age 62, in prison.

https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/news/local/emergency-appeal-halts-parole-for-convicted-child-rapist

https://www.michigan.gov/ag/news/press-releases/2026/07/28/ag-nessel-files-emergency-appeal-to-reverse-parole-of-convicted-child-rapist-secures-stay-of-release

Here’s the Michigan Court of Appeals rejection of Hunter’s appeal in 2007.  Fuck this guy and his attorney.  Look who they went after–the child victim who was raped by this monster for two years when she was ages 7-9.  They wanted her school records to argue she was not displaying the signs of sexual abuse.

https://law.justia.com/cases/michigan/court-of-appeals-unpublished/2007/20070208-c264367-63-264367-opn.html

The filings in AG Nessel’s emergency appeal of the Michigan Parole Board’s decision to release this monster show that Hunter

  • Lacks honesty regarding his underlying convictions.
  • Blames the victim for the crimes committed against her.
  • Refuses to express remorse for his actions or sympathy for the survivor.

This POS confessed to an unsolved 1991 rape case after a 2014 DNA test linked him to the crime.  The statute of limitations at the time allowed him to skate.  No way this sex criminal should ever be on the streets again.

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/inmate-confesses-to-previously-unsolved-1991-rape-case-police-cant-charge-him/

“Good time” credits.  Spend those “credits” with your own kind, like Ted Lamborgine and Larry Allen Smith.

Glad someone was paying attention when this rapist was making his “good time” credit arguments.  Glad the AG is calling out the Parole Board’s abuse of discretion.