Small Michigan town struggles with heartbreak as grisly murder trial begins
TECUMSEH, Mich. — Sorrow emanates from residents’ T-shirts, from frayed purple ribbons around trees, from signs in store windows next to ones exhorting the high school team. It’s written all over the face of Tecumseh. Alas, deliverance may be on its way as opening statements were held Thursday in the murder trial of a Tecumseh farmer in Lenawee County Circuit Court in Adrian. The prosecution ...