Flint is well known for its modern violent crimes but Flint's history is filled with little known stories that read stranger than fiction. Gruesome murders, weird accidents, and violent deaths. Join us every Thursday as Joe Schipani details some of the odd but true deaths he found in Flint's archives.
An Insane Man March 1st, 1915
John Wrzygand was a thirty year
old immigrant from Poland, who had lived with his nephew in Flint for a couple
years. He finally saved up enough money for his wife and four children, who
were still in Poland, to move to the US.
On Saturday February 27th he got
the news that his wife refused to move and wanted a divorce. That sent him into
a rage. He was still so furious the next day he made homicidal and suicidal
threats. Not knowing what else to do, his nephew called the police.
The police considered him an
insane man and took him to the county jail.
The evening of February 28th
around six p.m., when all the other inmates were eating dinner, John got up and
walked over to the sink.
He pulled out a hidden razor that
he had snuck in to the jail with him.
He slit his own throat.
John then stepped back away from
the sink and continued to saw at his throat until he was stopped by the police.
John was rushed to Hurley
hospital. They were able to stop the bleeding and sedate him.
Around 10 a.m. on the morning of
March 1st a nurse caught him
ripping his stitches out.
By the time she was able to get
help he had already ripped out all the stitches.
John bled to death in minutes.
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