A group in Northern Michigan wants investigators to re-examine what's still an open and unsolved brutal murder.
   Back in June 1968, six members of the downstate Robison family were found slain in their vacation cottage in Good Hart in Emmet County. Their bodies were discovered almost a month after the killings, making it difficult to preserve evidence.
   They were shot, and the youngest--an eight year-old girl--was bludgeoned.
   No one was arrested.
   The Emmet County Sheriff's Department took another look at the evidence back in 2003, but the community has yet to get closure.
   Monday night, a group met with community members to go over the case.
   "Six innocent family members were murdered in a very brutal way," Rick Wiles said. Wiles is a teacher at Petoskey High School and has been researching the Robison case for years.
   "I think Mr. Scolaro had all the personality traits that would lead him to have committed this crime," Wiles said.
   He says new psychological profiling tactics could be the key to declare Joseph Scolaro as the murderer, so he wants the Michigan State Police to take another look at the case.
   Dick Smith, the original prosecutor on the case, says Scolaro had motive, because he embezzled tens of thousands of dollars from his employer, Richard Robison.
   "I think he either did it, or knew who did it, and I've thought that since 1968," Smith said.
   Smith told 9 & 10 News he became suspicious the Friday after the bodies were discovered.
   "Mr. Scolaro was unannounced and wanted to meet with the sheriff. We brought him in and interviewed him for, oh, 40 minues to an hour, it was taped," Smith said. "Later on, I looked at the sheriff and said, 'There's something wrong here'. I think he was there to find out how much we knew."
   Smith says the tape was not part of the original file and is lost.
   So is Scolaro.
   He committed suicide about five years after the murders, just as Oakland County prosecutors were about to draw up murder charges. In his suicide note, Scolaro denies killing the Robisons.
   The trail has been cold since.
   "Because it wasn't solved, a lot of the rural legends and gossip started to formulate, and even including some of the local residents, which were never true," Wiles said.
   "I think part of the tragedy is that it's so simple as to follow the money," Mardi Link said. Link wrote a book on the murders, called "When Evil Came to Good Hart" and says the police back in 1968 were right to suspect Scolaro.
   But both Link and Wiles also think the prosecutor who replaced Smith a year after the murders, dropped the ball and should have arrested Scolaro.
   Now, Link says both the community and the Robison's family need to have closure, even if it's four decades after the gruesome crime.
   "I think they would like to see some kind of a final end, some kind of official word that yes, the suspect was guilty, even if we don't bring him to trial, that he did have culpability," Link said.
   However, Smith doesn't know if closure will ever come. "I'm not so confidant that's ever going to happen," he said.
   We do not yet know if the Michigan State Police will take another look at this case.
   9 & 10's Jodi Hathaway and photojournalist Joel Deaner have the story.