Floyd Glen Foster, 51, was shot and later died on November 21, 1982, during a deer hunt in swampy terrain near Ravenna, Michigan. The men present were Foster, his 22-year-old son Jerry Lee Foster, and Ralph Raymond Andrews. Foster was transported from the remote area to a Muskegon hospital but died of the chest wound.

Investigators at the time concluded the shooting was accidental. The accepted account said Andrews fell into a creek, Foster reached for the barrel of Andrews’ rifle while helping him, and the weapon discharged. No homicide charge was filed and the death remained classified as an accidental shooting. Contemporaneous reports also noted the hunters were not wearing required hunter-orange clothing.

Years later, doubts surfaced after Andrews was arrested for other violent crimes. Jerry Foster later testified that Andrews had pointed the rifle at his father more than once before it fired, and a former girlfriend, Mary Ebeling, said Andrews appeared unusually unconcerned after the shooting. Those later testimonies were introduced in unrelated prosecutions of Andrews but did not change the original accidental finding; Andrews was never charged in Foster’s death.

Did anyone who was in the Ravenna area on November 21, 1982, or who knew the men involved ever share additional details about that day?