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A Landing Page for information covered in the “A Wolf in Suburbia” series of episodes
In 2002 John Wolfenbarger and Dennis Lincoln committed one of the worst crimes in Michigan’s history. Five were dead, including three children, just four days before Christmas.
It was, for the most part, an open-and-shut case but when you add in a dangerous biker gang, a drug-addicted mother, and a questionable parole policy, things can get a little murkier.
Back in 2014-2015, Nathan began a nearly five-year journey of compiling information on this case for a true crime book. After countless interviews and thousands of documents, he finished the book. Only now, 10 years later, is he sharing everything he learned.
The Perpetrators
John Thomas Wolfenbarger
Wolfenbarger was a career criminal with arrests dating back to the 1980s.
Wolfenbarger’s Previous Crimes
Dennis Delmar Lincoln
The following is a letter that Nathan received from Dennis Lincoln in March of 2014.
The Crime
The Trial
In His Own Words
John Wolfenbarger wrote Nathan back not long after he sent the original letters to Dennis and John.
Those Involved
Locations
Then and Now
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