Nightmare At The Pig Farm

Mio, pronounced "Mayo", is a small town in Oscoda County in the north-east of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, surrounded by woods and small lakes. In November 1985 two twenty-seven-year-old friends from the Detroit area, David Tyll and Brian Ognjan, drove north for a weekend's deer hunting at the Tyll family cabin near White Cloud. They never arrived. details of the account remain covered until revealed

David Tyll was a machinist at Deland Manufacturing, the tool and die shop owned by his father-in-law, and was married to Danice. Brian Ognjan was a mechanic for Michigan Bell and lived in the Detroit suburbs; his girlfriend was Janice. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it They were close, hard-working and careful with money. Neither had ever shot a deer. They hunted by sitting in the woods with a rifle and a shotgun, drinking beer and watching the wildlife.

On Friday 22 November 1985 David had lunch with Danice at Mcname withheld here's, cashed his pay cheque and gave her everything except $50. He drove to Brian's house at about two in the afternoon and they set off in David's 1980 black Ford Bronco, taking a Marlin .35 calibre model 336C rifle and a 12-gauge Ithaca shotgun. David's father, Art, a retired Detroit firefighter, and his brother Archie were already at the cabin. David's younger brother Matt, who was eighteen, was there with friends, and two other friends, Daniel Jacob and Richard Mousto, had cancelled. At about five o'clock David telephoned Matt to say they might not come until Saturday. Matt's group left a note at the cabin and went to a bar in White Cloud. The two men never appeared.

They were expected home by six on Sunday evening, 24 November. When they did not arrive, Danice telephoned David's father and then Matt, who gave a vague answer about when David had left. On Monday he admitted that they had never reached the cabin. Danice went to the Troy Police Department to file a missing-person report; Janice was told she could not file one because she was not a relative, so Brian's parents in Florida had to do it. The family drove north, searched the cabin and the bars of White Cloud, the Cozy Bar, the Drifter Inn and the Highway Bar, and hired a pilot to fly over White Cloud and the Hardy Dam. Brian's bank balance never changed, and his pay cheque had been cashed in St Clair Shores on the Friday.

Witnesses eventually put the pair in Mio. Larry Barker, who lived at Cherry Creek Road, two miles north-west of Mio, said a black or dark blue Bronco pulled into his drive on the evening of Friday 22 or Saturday 23 November. Two young men with an upside-down map asked for directions to Camp 10 Road; they said a bar had given them directions and that they were heading for a cabin off M55. Barker turned the map the right way and sent them on. A month later he saw their photographs on television and called the police. At Walker's Bar and Bowling Alley in Mio the owners, Paul and Beverly Pasternak, and their daughter Brenda saw them twice, once at night and once the following afternoon, and Brenda remembered them playing pool with a local man nicknamed Coke. David Welch, an unemployed construction worker who was in the bar seven nights a week, sat with them on the Saturday night. They told him they were staying at Ma Teeter's in Luzerne, eight miles east, that they were looking for women, and that they had bought a .45 revolver from a friend in Detroit. David said it would be nice to disappear to the Bahamas for the winter.

At the Northwood bar the bartender, Ken Fox, saw a young deer hunter, presumably Brian, arrive between half past ten and eleven. Two well-dressed women came in, Brian put their drinks on his tab and sent them a note; they read it, put it down and walked out without touching the drinks. At Walker's, David stumbled coming back from the toilet, was cut off by Beverly and waited politely for Brian. They left by the back door between half past ten and eleven, leaving David's heavy flannel shirt on a stool. At noon the next day they were back at Walker's for a Coke and a Budweiser.

That Sunday evening, according to the police report, they were at Linker's Lost Creek Lodge, where a waitress named Cindy said Brian told her not to take David's money or he would smack her, and the owner Steve Linker spoke to them. Barb Klimock, a heavy-drinking local who lived on Mapes Road, said the short one grabbed her backside and the tall one rubbed against her at the pool table. A sheriff's deputy, Dick Smith, saw a black Bronco pull out of a ditch on M72 near the Camp Ten store at about two in the morning at the end of his shift and let it go. A deer hunter, Michael Parent, was approached in the Maltby Hills near Rose City by two lost hunters in a Bronco.

Three years passed. On 8 December 1988 eighteen officers from different jurisdictions met at the Flint Township Fire Hall. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now J.R. had shot him at the age of thirteen while he was stabbing J.R.'s stepmother, and the police ruled it self-defence. J.R. served as a military policeman in Vietnam and married young to Kate, with whom he had two sons. Coco married Kate's sister Georgia in 1970 and divorced her in 1976 after breaking her jaw. Another brother, Rex, had served time for criminal sexual conduct with a friend's fifteen-year-old daughter. details of the account remain covered until revealed

In 1989 investigators collected statements from J.R.'s former girlfriends Donna Meekin and Connie Sunberg, and from Lonnie McMullen, Debbie Hoffman and Hoffman's sister Susan in Florida. They told versions of a story in which J.R., beaten by five men outside a bar, returned with Coco and others, killed two of them and fed them to pigs. A state dive team searched two deep spots behind the Alcona Dam on 21 September 1989 and found nothing. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

In March 1999 Detective Bronco Lesneski reopened the file after a message from Ruth Fawcett led him to Barb Klimock, by then Barb Boudreau. She described the confrontation at the bar, the calls for back-up, the six-pack the covered names gave her to send her home, the screaming in the woods and the knock at her door: "you didn't see anything... the pigs got to eat, too." Her friend Ronnie Emry had gone to look and came back saying the men were being killed; he later died drunk on a highway, run over by a 1990 Chevrolet pickup.

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed J.R. and Coco both testified and denied everything. J.R. denied kissing a pig's private parts, though he did not deny eating pig shit. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed