GUILTY MI - Florence Unger, 37, murdered, Benzie County, 24 Oct 2003

[Doyle]

Oakland woman's death puzzles police
http://www.detnews.com/2003/oakland/0310/29/c04-310394.htm

Husband a suspect in death at resort
http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/unger29_20031029.htm

 

[nanandjim]

Amazing...family and friends don't know what to think...a split camp on if he is guilty or not. Wake up, people...What a coincidence...she files for divorce...he insists on the getaway...she ends up dead...Quite an amazing coincidence...Wonder how much life insurance was on her....

 

[bluehawaii25]

Husband sure sounds suspicious to me. Glad they got the kids away from him if he is using drugs and is in rehab. Not a good environment for them. I, too, wonder how much life insurance she has?

 

[Doyle]

Fall onto slab killed woman, police say
Findings could go to prosecutor by Monday
http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/unger31_20031031.htm

 

[Taximom]

Oakland woman's death puzzles police
http://www.detnews.com/2003/oakland/0310/29/c04-310394.htm

Husband a suspect in death at resort
http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/unger29_20031029.htm

Update:
http://www.record-eagle.com/2005/dec/11unger.htm

(excerpt)
Prosecutors maintain Unger and his wife were in the midst of a bitter divorce and Unger pushed her from the boathouse deck and moved her body into the water.

 

[mssheila]

If this divorce was so bitter, why on earth would she go away with him? I dont understand that! I'm not blaming her for her own death in any way, there's no excuse for that, I just dont see why she'd go anywhere with him if the divorce was so bitter.:doh:

 

[NoraLee]

I'm surprised this isn't being discussed. It's been on the Detroit local news and in local newspapers since it happened. Anyone have thoughts on the case?
This is a link to the Traverse City, MI, newspaper.
http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/apr/15unger.htm

 

[kato]

I'm surprised this isn't being discussed. It's been on the Detroit local news and in local newspapers since it happened. Anyone have thoughts on the case?
This is a link to the Traverse City, MI, newspaper.
http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/apr/15unger.htm

I am interested in this case and I hope some of the news shows will cover it.

 

[ljwf22]

Here is a Detroit Free Press story:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060426/NEWS05/604260406

The Ungers lived in Huntington Woods, a suburb of Detroit.

 

[NoraLee]

From WXYZ website:

http://www.detnow.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_4654713,00.html

 

[NoraLee]

From the WXYZ Detroit website earlier today:
http://www1.wxyz.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_4669859,00.html
From the Traverse City paper today:
http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/apr/29unger.htm

 

[NoraLee]

From the Detroit Free Press:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060503/NEWS11/60503008

I'm thinking Unger is guilty. Florence's parents are sure of it. Too bad Florence trusted Mark Unger enough to go on the vacation but since the children were with them, I doubt she had any reason to feel afraid.

 

[NoraLee]

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

From today's Detroit Free Press:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060505/NEWS06/605050452

 

[kato]

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

From today's Detroit Free Press:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060505/NEWS06/605050452

Thanks for the update.

 

[NoraLee]

From today's Detroit Free Press:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060506/NEWS06/605060404

Still looks guilty. Kind of surprising to me that he was free for so long.

 

[NoraLee]

From Traverse City newspaper:

http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/may/06unger.htm

 

[NoraLee]

Today's Detroit Free Press:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060507/NEWS03/605070755

 

[NoraLee]

This is a link to the Traverse City Record Eagle before the preliminary trial in 2004:

http://www.record-eagle.com/2004/jul/07unger.htm

There is a paragraph that says:
>> Another friend, Gary Scholnick, said he had lunch with Florence Unger a day before her death and she told him she was headed north with her husband on the advice of her divorce attorney, who said it was important for the couple's children and for the divorce proceedings.<<

Why would an attorney advise his client to take a trip with a hostile almost-ex-husband?

 

[Bobbisangel]

I've never heard of a divorce attorney telling anyone to take a vacation with their soon to be ex-husband. How would that help the kids if the dad was a real creep? That doesn't make any sense.

Anyone know how old the kids are? I wonder what they were doing when dad murdered mom? Is the husband trying to say that the wife just fell off the dock or something?

 

[NoraLee]

Max is 12 and Tyler is 9. From what I remember, Florence & Mark were on the dock and Mark said he went to check on the children. Seems he never returned to the dock, though, and realized in the morning that Florence was missing and called someone else to go look for her. Why wouldn't he go himself? And why didn't he return to the dock that night? Why would she stay out there?