Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
America’s Most Disturbing Killer | The Case of Mark Latunski
Sat, 10 May 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the disturbing story of Mark Latunski?
There was this whole s*** dungeon that Lutensky had. It was insane. Kevin Bacon was the victim.
Right.
He had met up with Lutensky via the Grindr app, gone to his house, and Lutensky had him, cut off his and he goes upstairs and he goes into his kitchen and he fries them in a frying pan and then eats them. The community is up in arms because of these two guys that had escaped previously. They're like, you know, you could have stopped this.
Both of these were consensual and both of these guys went back to stay with Mark Lutensky. Well, they tried to make a political thing out of it and it really wasn't.
How did the police end up at the house?
Okay, so this is where I kind of like found myself in the middle of the story.
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Chapter 2: How did Kevin Bacon become a victim?
Mark was a troubled person.
He was. Mark Lutensky, he went to high school at Morris High School, which is like south of Owasso in Chi West County. He was a valedictorian of his graduating class. He ended up having his IQ tested later and it was just astronomical. The guy was a genius. He ended up getting the Unabomber was like a genius.
I mean, he was.
Well, that's a very malleable word. But he he there's no doubt he was intelligent. He went to school for basic. He ended up working as a chemist. for a couple different places. Dow Chemical in Midland, that's one of the big ones. That's one of the huge chemical companies. This was up until about the mid to late 2000s, and he started acting just a little bit off.
He told his wife, well, this is the early stages. He was medicating.
I'm sorry, how old was he then, do you think?
He would have been... Roughly. about 40 late thirties or about 40. Um, so he's working for Dow and he started telling his wife that, uh, you know, these people were poisoning his water supply, um, that his kids weren't really his, um, just a lot of conspiracy type stuff.
And, um, I'm sorry. That seems almost like it might be a touch of, uh,
uh schizophrenia or something too he was diagnosed as bipolar and schizophrenic in the late 2000s um during this time late 2000s he started to show some and he had always been straight as far as i know um He started to show some gay tendencies. He actually worked as a male escort down south of Flint in the Detroit metro area. He was on escort websites, all sorts of stuff.
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Chapter 3: What psychiatric issues did Mark Latunski face?
Okay. Well, I mean, that's what he owed. It would look like it was worth, I mean, in Florida, that thing would be worth easily half a million, you know, even more, $600,000. Hell, in California, it'd be worth $3,000,000.
Oh, yeah. I lived in San Diego for eight years. Yeah. Right. It is a nice piece of property. And for anybody that didn't know what happened in that house, you know, hey, it'd be a great purchase.
Yeah. So which is horrible that I'm laughing about that. I'm sorry. I, you know, I'm.
It's in, in, before we get any further, you know, at some point in time, I'm going to have to say exactly what happened in the murder.
Right.
And I want to be completely respectful to Kevin Bacon's family. I've met them. They're wonderful people, salt to the earth, humble, you know, and it's just a horrible thing to happen to him. But I want to be respectful to him, but, you know, also tell the story.
Yeah. It, it, listen, let's face it though. It's odd. Like I know they, they, it, the whole situation from, you know, from, uh, Latonsky, you know, to, you know, how he, how, uh, Kevin ended or, you know, I don't know if I should say his whole name. You know, Kevin ended up there to the, the other people that were there.
Like the whole thing is just an odd situation, especially the, the homosexual, um, element of it, because typically they're like nonviolent. Yeah. You know, and this seems really out of character other than the mental illness. So honestly, even schizophrenics tend to not be violent.
So, and I don't want to paint with too broad of a brush here, but for any relationship I've ever seen, whether it be straight, gay, whatever, regardless of what their orientation is, one is going to fulfill a role of... The submissive and one's going to be like the bunch. That's right. Couple straight couples. That's natural.
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Chapter 4: What led to the police discovery of the crime?
He was adamant that he was going to go to trial. And then he fired the public defender as his attorney and hired this woman. She actually defended. No, I think that's he ended up hiring this law firm, high powered law firm, which was a waste of money. But basically he went to them and to his attorneys and was like, look, I know I've been adamant about going to trial, but I want to plead guilty.
I'm going to hurry up and get to Michigan Department of Corrections so I can have all these privileges. I'm never getting out. I might as well have TV, mail, email, iPad, whatever. That was his motivation for pleading guilty. So he ended up pleading guilty in Michigan.
I'm not sure about Florida law, but in Michigan, if you plead guilty to murder, the presiding judge has to make a determination, whether it's first degree, second degree manslaughter, you know, accidental death, whatever. And Judge Stewart, Matt Stewart, who I know really well. He was like, this is premeditated. There's no way around it. There were two prior incidents.
You're guilty of first degree murder. And he was sentenced. Oh, geez. What was the date on that? He was sentenced December 16th of last year. So almost three years to the day from when he killed Kevin Bacon, he was sentenced to life in prison. He's never getting out.
Okay. So what happened with the civil trials?
Okay. Well, there were two. There was the one that the James Carlson guy filed, and it was a federal civil suit alleging emotional distress, a few other things. I feel it was a money grab or attempted money grab. It was just The arguments and briefs by his attorneys were not well-written, and I'm not an attorney, but I've read thousands of court files.
It was just flimsy at best, and I think it was an attempted money grab. So that one was dismissed because his attorneys actually withdrew because the guy was a habitual liar. He was lying to his attorneys. He was lying to investigators. He was actually scheduled to be subpoenaed for the trial, the criminal murder trial, if it ever happened, but...
you know like he had wetonski pleaded guilty so it was moot anyways so his case was dismissed without prejudice so it could be brought again if he can find someone to represent him he won't right um it was just a spurred spurious lawsuit and it had no merit it was an attempted money grab i think he was trying to get wetonski's family to settle and they wouldn't
Okay.
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Chapter 5: What was found in Mark Latunsky's basement?
And like I said, the balance that he owed was like $101,000, $102,000. I don't know what he had already paid on it, but that's what he owed. So... The mortgage company was like, we don't want this publicity. Unload this property, sell it at auction. In Michigan, that's what mortgage companies do. If a property goes into foreclosure, then they'll have what's called a sheriff's sale.
And the county prosecutor is in charge of that. And they'll basically do all the legal filings and paperwork that you have to do to auction the thing off. They did an auction. The auction was at the Circuit Courthouse in Corona, which is like the county seat. I believe it was January 20th, 2020 or 21st, maybe right around there. They railroaded this thing through the prosecutor's office.
The sheriff's office were like, we're doing this auction. Get rid of this. We don't want any part of this bad PR, you know, auction it, get rid of it. Right. So and I've never seen one expedited to to that extent before where they rushed it through because, you know, we've got at this point, we've got.
buzzfeed huffington post rolling stone is doing stories about this murder case and you know how we're all bigots and and and everything and they're like let's get this done with unload it whatever so i go to the auction at the courthouse the morning that happened it might have been the 25th but it was right in there so i go to the auction and right before i had left i get a call from
From a source. And I forget who called me, but they're like, dude, there's some domestic thing going out at the Latonsky residence. I don't know what's going on. The cops are there. And I'm like, this is weird. And I'm like, well, I got to go to the, to the auction. So I sent one of our other reporters out to the Latonsky property. He goes out there. He comes back. He's like, cops won't talk.
Family won't talk. I don't know what's going on. And I'm like, well, OK, I'll mention it in the story. You know, you were there. You saw it. I'll mention it in the story. So before the auction starts, it was a guy by the name of Doug Chapman that was doing the auction. And he's now the sheriff for Shiawassee County. And he was a Sergeant at the time. He was basically administrative.
He did administrative work for the Sheriff's office. Been there for, you know, 25 years or whatever. So I knew him pretty well. And I was like, Doug, I just got a tip. There's some domestic situation happening out at the Latonsky property. Do you know what's going on? And he's like, I haven't heard anything. I don't know. If I knew anything, I'd tell you. I'm like, okay.
So the auction happens and it was purchased for $102,000. And the guy that purchased it, his name... He was acting as an agent for his father. The kid's name was Alex Deal. And his dad's name was Steven Deal. Okay, so they bought the property at auction. So I later found out, and I was in pretty regular communication with Paul Latonsky.
I later found out that maybe 15 or 20 minutes before the auction took place, that Paul Latonsky got an emergency order
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