MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: JoAnn Matouk Romain (Part 2)
The January 2010 death of JoAnn Matouk Romain gets even more mysterious when her family learns of two other cases connected to hers. One, which seems to not even be real, and another that is all too real and shares some eerie similarities.
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The church JoAnn’s daughter’s car was found and the roads and median she would have had to cross before going into the water
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Episode Source Material
- Unsolved Mysteries: “Lady in The Lake”
- Click on Detroit: Tim Matouk breaks silence 11 years after JoAnn Matouk Romain found in Detroit River, by Karen Drew and Kayla Clarke
- Click on Detroit: Dateline Detroit: Secrets of a Small Town – new revelations in JoAnn Matouk Romain’s mysterious death. Parts 1-6, by Karen Drew
- Marie Claire: The Death of JoAnn Matouk Romain Is Covered In ‘Unsolved Mysteries’, by Katherine J Igoe
- Detroit Free Press: Murder or Suicide? Frosse Pointe mom’s death a mystery, by Tresa Baldas
- Grosse Pointe News: No signs of foul play in witness death, by Laurel Kraus
- Grosse Pointe News: Special Report – The Joann Matouk Romain Mystery, by Scott M. Burnstein
- Grosse Point News: The JoAnn Matouk Romain Mystery (Part 2), by Scott M. Burnstein
- Grosse Pointe News: The JoAnn Matouk Romain Mystery (Part 3), by Scott M. Burnstein
- CBS News: Mich. Banker David Widlak Shot in Head “Execution Style,” Says Report, by Naimah Jabali-Nash
- Business Insider: The Body Of A Bank CEO Washes Up On A Michigan Lake Shore, by Katya Wachtel
- Business Insider: Seven Mysterious Unknowns In The Case Of The Michigan Banker Who Was Shot “Execution Style”, by Katya Wachtel
- Wall Street Journal: Police Sift Through Clues: a Bank, a Body, a Bullet, by Douglas Belkin
- The Oakland Press: Sheriff calls David Widlak death likely suicide, but case left open, by Mitch Hotts
- Detroit Free Press: Bank CEO was upbeat, brother says, by Christina Hall
- Detroit Free Press: Suicide or The Perfect Murder?, by Joe Swickard
- Detroit Free Press: An answer leads only to questions, by Joe Swickard
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