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In the summer of 1968, the Robison family left their suburban Detroit home for a peaceful vacation at their secluded cottage near Good Hart, Michigan, overlooking Lake Michigan.

They would never return.

On June 25, Richard and Shirley Robison and their four children—Ritchie, Gary, Randy, and Susan—were murdered inside the family’s vacation home. The killer used both a rifle and a handgun, and some of the victims were also beaten. Then the cottage was closed up and left silent beneath the trees.

For nearly a month, no one knew what had happened.

The Robisons had been expected to travel from Michigan to Florida, so their absence initially raised little alarm. It was not until July 22, 1968, twenty-seven days after the murders, that the family’s bodies were finally discovered inside the cottage.

Investigators soon began looking closely at Joseph Raymond Scolaro, Richard Robison’s employee and business associate. Authorities suspected financial problems and alleged embezzlement could have provided a motive, and Scolaro would remain the central suspect in the case. But he was never prosecuted.

Years later, Scolaro died by suicide, leaving behind denials of responsibility—and leaving prosecutors without the trial that might finally have answered what happened inside that cottage.

More than half a century later, the Robison family murders, better known as the Good Hart murders, remain officially unsolved.

This is the true crime story of the Good Hart Murders—six members of one family slaughtered on a summer vacation, a prime suspect who was never brought to trial, and one of Michigan’s most haunting cold cases.

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