Body of murdered girl found in Tosi family chimmneybenton harbor Michigan circa 1970's?

Answer 1

Stevensville Michigan

In the first half of the 70s I lived next door to the man who murdered his young wife and hid her body in the chimney of a house down the road a bit. As a next door neighborI was actually (and briefly) questioned in the murder investigation as a matter of routine and of course ruled out immediately. It was all strange. The couple was strange, the method of murder nor the weapon were never discovered. In fact, the body was not discovered for a long time, maybe a year. The (very nice) house where the body was hidden in the chimney was undergoing a remodel when the body was stashed there. Scaffolding was used by the murderer to climb up, two stories and a steep roof, and then the chimney, with the body, and drop or stuff her down the chimney. If you saw the house you'd think it was impossible. The young woman was small, but so was the husband who killed her. After searching for many years I've never found any official account of the murder, but I understood that the religion of the murderer allowed that he not ever confess any sin except but to Jehova. He did confess to his own father after a couple of years, and was turned over to the police from there.

There was a mysterious bug infestation in the remodeled house that could not be resolved after several attempts, the source of the bugs not being found until someone finally knocked a brick block from the bottom of the chimney inside the houses basement. They reached in and pulled out some human hair. That was the beginning of the solution to the murder case.

I have to add that even the next occupant of the murderers house (rental cottage, next to mine) seemed to have strange and unexplainable behavior at times. I witnessed him charging across my front yard with a loaded shotgun, screaming and chasing something no one could see but him. It was as though he'd heard voices and was misguided by them. I left the state in 1976.