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| Description: David Tyll and Brian Ognjan were 27-year-old residents from the Detroit area who traveled to northern Michigan for a hunting trip on November 22, 1985. They were planning to stay the weekend at Tyll’s cabin, but both men disappeared and were never seen again. The Ford Bronco they drove also went missing which seemed to indicate they never arrived at their destination. In fact, they never even got around to purchasing their hunting licenses so it seemed unlikely that they simply got lost in the wilderness. The case remained cold until 2003 when a witness named Barbara Boudro was subpoenaed by the authorities and shared a horrifying story. According to Boudro, Tyll and Ognjan stopped off at a bar called the Linker’s Lounge in the rural community of Mio. It was there that they ran afoul of Raymond and Donald Duvall, a pair of brothers who lived in the surrounding woods. The Duvalls allegedly beat Tyll and Ognjan to death outside the bar while they begged for mercy. Afterward, they chopped up the victims’ bodies and fed the remains to their pigs. Apparently, numerous people witnessed this incident and the Duvall brothers repeatedly bragged about it over the years. However, since the Duvalls were known for being intimidating characters in the community, everyone was too frightened to go the authorities. In their defense, aside from eyewitness testimony there was no physical evidence linking the Duvalls to the disappearances, and Boudro was reportedly intoxicated on the night she witnessed the murders. Nevertheless, the Duvall brothers were both convicted on two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. The remains of David Tyll and Brian Ognjan have still not been found and, if the story about the pigs is true, they never will be. |
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