"Michigan's Dark Tourism" An Evening of History & Mystery

Mid Michigan College and Art Reach of Mid Michigan would like to welcome you our for a night of historic Michigan True Crime! Grab your friends & head to downtown Mt. Pleasant for a fun & FREE evening of discovering some of Michigan's most dangerous places!

Enjoy complimentary pop & popcorn provided by Mid Michigan College while you experience Michigan's author and aficionado of history with a dark twist, Tobin Buhk's, fascinating presentation of "Dark Tourism."

Return to the scene of Michigan’s most notorious crimes on this adventure in dark tourism. Using archival photographs, crime scene sketches, and documents, noted author Tobin T. Buhk will guide viewers on a journey to the most infamous spots in the Great Lake State. The itinerary includes the place of Michigan’s bloodiest school day, the site of a wild-west style necktie party, a serial poisoner’s killing field, the apartment where the Purple Gang imploded, the nook where the Ypsilanti Vampire stashed his ‘bloodletted’ victim, the cabin where a Black Widow used a shotgun to cash in on the men in her life, the third floor of an office building that hosted one of the State’s most vexing unsolved crimes, and the house where the perfect crime was committed. It’s a tour that’s sure to leave an impression!

Tobin T. Buhk is a freelance author specializing in historic true crime. To research his first book, Cause of Death, he volunteered in a county morgue. His subsequent true-crime publications include Skeletons in the Closet, True Crime in the Civil War, and Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids. Mr. Buhk lectures frequently on historic crime and provides a number of presentation options.