
- Posted July 17, 2025
At 9:30 p.m. on January 22, 1984, Jerry Western was found with a single gunshot wound to the back…
A small village in Sanilac County’s Speaker Township, Melvin boasts a hearty population of 148 residents, with it not being much bigger over 100 years ago. What began as a lone saloon built in 1862 quickly sparked the construction of a drug store, the Port Huron & Northwestern Railroad, and a church as the years drew on, but we’re not here to talk that type of history. Today’s episode centers around a married couple, Esther McPhee and William Jack McPhee, and the circumstances that led to one of their deaths on March 6, 1923. Was it a desire for