Silent Night, Violent Night Justin Stephens

Silent Night, Violent Night is described by Discovery ID as in 2006, Christmas cheer hits an all-time low in Hubbardston, MI when 80-year-old Billie Cunningham is found murdered in her home. Years pass as police search for a vicious killer. But it turns out the shocking confession is well worth the wait.  

Justin Stephens appealed his conviction, stating,   After  The  Ionia  County  Sheriff  Department  concluded  the  death  as  accidental,  a  crew  arrived to clean the scene of the victim’s death.  During their cleaning, they found earrings lying on  the  floor  where  the  victim  had  died.    One  of  the  earrings  had  a  bent  post,  indicating  to  the  members  of  the  cleaning  crew  that  it  had  not  fallen  out  of  the  victim’s  ear.    They  also  found  a  statue or a piece of a broken
statue in the middle of the victim’s living room.  The pieces of glass and the mirror were preserved by the cleaning crew and bagged. Defendant,  who  had  moved  to  Texas,  lived  with  the  Kramer  family  who  he  had  met  in  Texas.    Defendant  dated  Jessica  Broom,  who  also  lived  with  the  Kramer  family.    The  Kramer  family  lived  across  the  street  from  the  victim,  which  led  police  to  question  him  and  other  members  of  the  Kramer  household.    Despite  having  concluded  the  death  “accidental,”  in  December of 2006 and January of 2007, Ingram spoke with defendant four times.





You can write to Justin Stephens at:

Justin Stephens 807416
Chippewa Correctional Facility
4269 W. M-80
Kincheloe, MI 49784 

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.