Victim’s sister says police have ‘very viable’ lead in 50-year-old unsolved slaying of Michigan attorney

For 50 years, 94-year-old Patricia Fitzgerald has lived with the memory of that day in February 1976 when she found her baby brother, Peter Kensler, lying dead in the snow, shot in the face.

Police never arrested anyone in the killing of the secretive 36-year-old estate attorney, and Fitzgerald has long accepted that she may never learn who killed him or why.

The case appeared to go cold in the late 1980s and remained stagnant for decades. That changed recently as MLive revisited the unsolved killing and investigators began reviewing the case again…

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