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.
Skull
Crushing February
14th, 1922
Louis Salamon was an employee for
Buick Motors. He and his wife were trying to save up some extra cash to
purchase a home of their own. The Salamon’s were renting a large apartment on
Industrial Avenue. To earn extra cash they decided to rent out their spare room
to Mike Dobrowski, a coworker at Buick Motors. After about six months, rumors
of an affair between Mrs. Salamon and the boarder started to arise. Louis
confronted his wife about the affair and she confessed that something did
happen… once. Louis became very upset and confronted Mike Dobrowski at work. He
told Mike that he needed to move out immediately.
Shortly after Mike moved out,
strange things started to happen. One day Louis found two tires on his car
slashed. The Friday before Valentine’s Day someone threw a brick through his
bedroom window. The police report stated that Louis said he saw Mike running away
from the building both times.
The feud escalated Monday at work.
By Tuesday morning people at the factory were claiming that Louis was jealous
of Mike.
Tuesday after work, Louis went to
the grocery store on Industrial Avenue around 6 PM. He needed to settle his
bill and pick up a couple items. After that Louis went home to unwind for the
day with his wife. Shortly after, the police received a call that Louis had
been found dead at the bottom of the stairs of the apartment.
When the police showed up the
body had been moved upstairs into the apartment by a doctor that lived next
door. The doctor reported that Louis had died in the transportation and Mrs.
Salamon had removed all the personal belongings including his wedding ring,
pocket watch, and thirty nine dollars in cash.
At first the death looked like an
accident, that Louis had simply lost his balance while carrying groceries to
the apartment and fallen down the stairs.
But the autopsy revealed a different
story. The coroner also stated that the location and angle of the fracture
would almost be impossible to achieve from a fall. The coroner also concluded
that the object used was a heavy padded object.
Mike Dobrowski was detained and
questioned for several days and finally released. The police never recovered
the murder weapon and never had enough evidence to convict Mike for the
murder.
I think the wife did it.
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