Mike's family learned from the news that three men had been indicted for Mike's death.

The article says Assistant AG Thomas Goodwin would not comment on whether Mike had been restrained inside the cabin. A March 10, 1981 Hartford Fire Insurance report states that Trooper Graves told Hartfort Fire Insurance adjuster  "They think that maybe he was knocked uncounscious and left in the building to burn. (This is what Linda Gray, Mike's girlfriend was told by Shuman and Bryce the day Mike was found and Linda told it to my sister, Mae, but Linda said they told her that it was men from Massachusetts (Lionel Cormier and Paul Pollard were living in Massachusetts) and then neither Linda nor Shuman would ever admit this.) and that generous amounts of flammable liquid was used inside the building.