Hunter saga finally ends; Families watch as brothers are imprisoned for life

Detroit Free Press ^ | November 14, 2003 | HUGH MCDIARMID JR.

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MIO -- Declaring their innocence to the end, Raymond and Donald Duvall were sent to prison until they die for the bludgeoning deaths of two southeast Michigan hunters 18 years ago.

Prior to the sentencing Thursday, family members of the victims -- best friends Brian Ognjan of St. Clair Shores and David Tyll of Troy -- told the Duvall brothers they had torn their loved ones from them far too soon.

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More on this case here:
Brothers Sentenced in Hunters' Murders
"Prosecutors said the Duvalls savagely beat and kicked the 27-year-old victims and laughed at their pleas for mercy on a snowy night outside a bar in Mio in northeast Michigan."
"No clear-cut motive for the killings emerged from the trial, although some prosecution witnesses said Raymond Duvall and Donald Duvall, 51, of Monroe, had spoken of having clashed with the hunters over a deer. "

And there was the case of the farmer in southern MI (near Coldwater, I think) some years ago, who was shot in the back of the head, as he sat in his pickup. Police ruled it a "hunting accident". His family said it was murder - he had kicked five trespassing hunters off his land shortly before being shot, and they believed his killing was retribution. So do I.

[Dead Corpse]

No body. No motive. But they still got a conviction? I'd be interested to read a transcript of THAT trial...

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When I took my hunter safety course, the instructor said that if as you approach the deer you shot, another hunter comes out of the woods to say it was his deer, you let him have the deer.

Good advice.

[LibWhacker]

Sounds to me like they also wanted the victims' Bronco. One witness testified the Duvall brothers bragged they had dismantled the Bronco, sold the parts, chopped up the bodies and fed the pieces to the pigs. Charmin' dudes. Watch a WJRT report that aired last month here (video link is in the upper righthand corner).