Wendell Popejoy Jr.
Once again this is a case that I saw on the show Fear Thy Neighbor. While I mentioned in my previous post how the show can be quite bias, and that is true, I also believe that at least in this case they gave more factual information about things than a jury would later see. I say this because much of what they showed in the episode were video and audio recordings of things that occurred prior to the murder of Sheila Bonge. On December 27, 2017 the family of fifty-nine year old Sheila Bonge contacted authorities in Nunica Michigan, some twenty-five miles west of Grand Rapids. They were unable to get a hold of Sheila and that was unusual. For the next two days a search was made for Sheila. Her body would be found on the 28 th , naked, down a hill behind the home of her neighbor, Wendell Popejoy Jr. Police were familiar with the area, particularly Sheila and several of her neighbors. Between 2014 and 2017 they had been called to the area more than fifty times on cal...