Really ? Wasn’t there multiple stab wounds? Sounds like a crime of passion?
Is it weird-er to think someone just happened upon this guy and decided to gruesomely kill him for no reason ?
I grew up hunting the Hoxeyville area , they log off sections and let it regrow natural and if you can find the right balance of aspen / pine , you'd find the birds . Ten years after being logged it would be getting good .
In the UP I would hunt the Blue Road area , very thick but lots of Pats ...
OK , just my two cents . This sounds more like your cousin crossed the wrong people . Bikers/gangs have been known to do this to people that crossed them . take all their stuff and tell them to never tell anybody . Happened to my friend , with the threat of harming family members if he told...