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| Flem Stiltner IV |
Flem Stiltner, IV, was charged with first-degree murder after stabbing his 48-year-old father, Flem Stiltner, III, nearly 100 times in the victim's Wayne home in August of 2020. The victim's body was then placed in the bed of a pickup truck and taken toward Belleville Lake in Van Buren Township where the truck became mired in mud.
Investigators found the vehicle and a journal entry with the alleged murder plot.
They also discovered Stiltner's fingerprint on the knife blade that apparently killed his father.
A Wayne County judge accepted his plea while dismissing the charge of premeditated first-degree murder and counts of home invasion and tampering with evidence.
