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Investigators review the scene of a barn fire on Long Lake Road where police found the bodies of two people in the debris in this August 2020 News archive photo. Police later confirmed the bodies were brothers Jim and Mike Polluch.
ALPENA For the first time since 2010, police in Alpena County opened multiple murder investigations this year.
In a community where such crime is exceedingly rare there were none in Northeast Michigan in four of the last 10 years, including last year this year’s acts of violence follow a national trend of unexpected violence as the world faced increased stress on many fronts.