BUTMAN TWP., MI – Members of the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Underwater Search and Recovery Team were up in mid-Michigan early Wednesday on the hunt for new evidence in connection to a 36-year-old murder case.

The Gladwin County Sheriff’s Office first reported that Ann Arbor-area authorities were in Butman Township on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 26, and were spotted in the Sugar Springs area on Lake Lancer.

Eugene Rush, a commander of community engagement for the sheriff’s office in Washtenaw, later confirmed the dive team went to further investigate the long-unresolved killing of Beverly Ann Wivell — just a couple months before the case is slated to go to trial early next year.

The 31-year-old Wivell was found dead on Sept. 18, 1989, near Gotfredson and Ford roads in Superior Tow

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