Helen Lockwood's boat was found drifting off Sleeping Bear Dunes with no one aboard.
A year later, her body was found in a shallow grave on South Manitou Island.
She had been in court, fighting with the National Park Service, which was trying to take her family's four-hundred-acre cherry orchard for the new national park.
Burr Lafayette, recently divorced and the deposed head of a major Detroit law firm, had kept the Park Service at bay for seven years.
But now Helen's husband, Tommy,.