The Murder of Maggie Hume

In the summer of 1982, the murder of 20-year-old Maggie Hume sent shockwaves through Battle Creek, Michigan, after her body was discovered in her apartment. With two main suspects—her neighbor Michael Ronning, who confessed, and her boyfriend Jay Carter, who failed a polygraph—the investigation became a tangled web of conflicting narratives and community division. Drawing on decades of previously undisclosed evidence, this gripping real-life whodunit explores the complexities and controversies that turned Hume’s tragic case into a battleground of legal and personal disputes that remain unresolved.