The rich history of the Wolverine State has a serious dark side.
Michigan author and historian Norma Lewis present a gallery of the state\'s most despicable criminals, crooks, conmen and more..
Then there were the state\'s two self-proclaimed kings--James Jesse Strang, the leader of a Mormon group on Beaver Island, and Albert Molitor, the reputed illegitimate son of German royalty who established his own kingdom on Presque Isle.
John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek was equal parts physician and quack.
In the Detroit area, the Black Legion outdid the Ku Klux Klan in hate but remained secret until one of its leaders was implicated in a murder.
The rich history of the Wolverine State has a serious dark side