Monroe Police Opening 34-Year-Old Murder Case; Still Have Not Solved Recent Murders

Monroe, MI—Monroe Police decided this past weekend to open 34-year-old murder case of two teenage friends in the early 1980s despite still not having any leads on last year’s murder of Chelsea Bruck, or the seven-years-past murder of five-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan.

“Obviously, this is about closure,” a spokesperson for the department stated today. “It’s been 34 years. So we’ve had 34 years, as a department, to figure out who might be guilty. Of course, it helps that two of our suspects are dead, and one is already in prison. That really narrows down the field.” 

The key point to the re-opening of this scenario is that there was likely a motive to the killing of the two boys, whereas absolutely none exist for Bruck or Buchanan. “We are looking at 12 potential scenarios,” the spokesman further clarified. One possible motive for the murders is a drug-related crime, although a surviving relative of the two boys insist that neither boy was a user. However, it is likely that the deaths of the boys were meant to prove a point to gang members, despite the fact that Monroe gangs of the 1980s were race based and not drug based.  Though the relative was 10 at the time of the murders, she insists that her memory is infallible. 

“We’re not ruling anything out,” the spokesperson added, after explaining the drug theory. “They might have been killed over a girl. Who could blame them, really? Girls are commodities, after all, and it makes sense that someone would burn two boys alive as a warning to stay away from another boy’s possession, or because the unlucky girl had a crush on the wrong boy.” 

Although the case is old, police insist that all of the witnesses have been very obliging. “Things are falling into place,” a detective announced this afternoon. 

It will no doubt please citizens of Monroe that 34 years after the death of two teenage boys law enforcement is ready to pursue the murderers and ensure that justice is served at last. One can only hope that, 34, 40, even 50 years after Nevaeh Buchanan and Chelsea Bruck were brutally murdered, the Monroe police too will re-open their cases and attempt to hunt down their murderers, bringing peace to the family members and to the surrounding communities.