BAY CITY, MI — The witching season is upon us, the days before Halloween tantalizing us into revisiting classic horror movies or reading vintage ghost stories. But for the most macabre and history-minded among us, autumn invites us to delve into Michigan’s links to monsters of the flesh-and-blood variety.

Michigan has a significant number of connections to serial killers and mass murderers. Some I’ve written about before: John E. List , the Bay City-born man who massacred his five-member family in New Jersey in 1971 then remained at large for the next 18 years. The Rev. Jim Jones , who recruited eight Michigan natives to join his Peoples Temple movement, all of whom died along with 910 others in Jonestown in 1978.

But did you know America’s three most infamous serial killers — Ted B

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