Article: 1975; Sturgeon Bay case Home searched in disappearance Cadaver dog used at husband's house

A cadaver-sniffing dog alerted investigators Monday to a crawl space at a Michigan home of a man whose wife disappeared from their Sturgeon Bay home more than three decades ago.

Investigators with a search warrant visited the Cheboygan County, Mich., property where Richard G. Pierce has lived since he moved from Sturgeon Bay less than two weeks after his wife, Carol Jean Pierce, was last seen, Sturgeon Bay Police Sgt. Investigator Dan Brinkman said.

Before she vanished, Carol Jean Pierce wrote to her mother about her marital difficulties, police said. The letters stopped shortly before Pierce was last seen in September 1975 and her husband moved their mobile home from Sturgeon Bay to ...

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