Authors continue an investigation of the world of forensic science presenting some of Kent County, Michigan’s most captivating true-crime cases. Specifically, 21 cases of perverse stories of those entering the doors of the Kent County Morgue are examined. Highlight of these cases include: (1) a hippie retreat organizer and his fellow partiers’ dreams are burst when they draw the ire of a local prosecutor--Federal law enforcement is called in and a Waco-like situation ends in tragedy with the leader killed; (2) a serial killer with a nationwide body count murders two young men in Grand Rapids; (3) law enforcement find a Nigerian businessman entombed in cement in a subbasement shot several times in the head two suspects are arrested, who subsequently turn on each other causing lengthy courtroom drama; and (4) a series of deaths occur in a nursing home raising suspicion about two nursing home aides; while, investigators exhume the bodies to look for evidence of foul play, interviews with the suspects begin to indicate the strange story of a love affair and a pact made with murder. Notes, list of sources, and index