Conspiracy of Evil Joseph Michael Marasco

Conspiracy of Evil Discovery ID describes this show as Grosse Pointe, Michigan is a privileged community untouched by homicide in over 60 years. So when Barbara Iske is found murdered in the driveway of a local home, the village is shocked. Police use the little evidence they have to catch the killer.    

Multiple people were convicted in this murder as it was a murder for hire scheme for financial gain and to cover up theft.


 Joseph Michael Marasco  originally plead not guilty. but was convicted based on the testimony of the many people hired to do this killing. He died in 2008 in prison.

The death of Iske comprised a murder-for-hire, which resulted from  issues  pertaining  to  the future distribution of the Marasco estate.  Madelynn Sorge, the daughter of Ann Marasco and sister of codefendant Marasco, learned in 2004 that her mother had omitted her as a beneficiary from her will and that the entire estate would devolve to codefendant Marasco upon Ann’s death. Sorge discussed this with her mother and ultimately the will and estate plan were revised giving Sorge and codefendant Marasco equal shares of the estate.  Iske was designated to serve as a co-trustee for the estate.  The relationship between Sorge and her brother was initially strained and further  deteriorated  following  the  will  change.  Employees  of  Ann  Marasco  indicated  that  her  son  displayed  verbally  hostile  and  argumentative  behavior  toward  Iske,  believing  that  she  had  influenced his mother’s decision to alter her distribution of the estate. It was the prosecution’s theory that codefendant Marasco hired defendant and Williams to kill Iske.