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November 29, 1992 was the very last day of Hunting Season in Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula, where 35 year-old Judy Moilanen, her husband Bruce and young daughter Elise were visiting Judy\u2019s parents in the small town of Ontonagon, right on the banks of Lake Superior.\xa0\xa0Seeing it was the last day of the season to do so, Bruce, along with a larger hunting party, headed out looking for deer to hunt. Judy decided to walk the five dogs currently in the house \u2013 her four Springer spaniels and her parents\u2019 one.\xa0\xa0Once the hunting party reassembled and got back to the house, Judy was nowhere to be found. When Judy\u2019s parents\u2019 dog returned without Judy and her four dogs, concern grew.\xa0\xa0As the afternoon grew late, the friends broke into small groups to go look for Judy \u2013 and her mother, Mary Ann, and a friend soon discovered the four missing dogs at the edge of the woods \u2013 and quickly thereafter, Judy\u2019s body, shot once in what appeared to be a hunting accident. A bullet had passed right through her somewhere into the surrounding ground that law enforcement could not initially locate \u2013 but even with the missing bullet, the initial assumption was that a terrible accident had occurred.\xa0\xa0But some things about the incident seemed out of place \u2013 and while the initial consensus was that Judy was accidentally shot by a deer hunter because she was not wearing appropriately colored clothing to alert hunters of her presence, a very attentive coroner and some inquisitive, unstoppable Sheriff\u2019s detectives saw some big inconsistencies \u2013 not the least of which was the fact that the wooded area was too close to residential houses for hunters to be present.\xa0\xa0And then forensic evidence \u2013 the most important of which was found by a civilian who became obsessed with finding the missing bulletand who eventually located it in the most unusual way \u2013 started pointing directly at Bruce Moilanen.\xa0\xa0And it was Bruce himself, with a series of some of the most boneheaded moves in the history of murder suspects, who seemed to insist upon pointing the finger at himself. He almost immediately began pursuing local women with tactics as clumsy as they were preposterous. And when he finally confessed, his reasons were both hilariously stupid \u2013 and mind-numbingly, tragically horrid.\xa0\xa0Join Melissa as she uncovers some of the lesser known facts of this often-recounted case \u2013 and marvel at the callousness and outright bumbling, unthinking arrogance that so needlessly ended a life and orphaned a little girl \u2013 all for nothing.