[Jim Moore]
the Metro Police Department were contacted
pertaining to a missing person, Kevin Bacon.
Kevin Bacon was 25 years old.
His parents report him missing
because he had not shown up for Christmas brunch.
And they indicated this was very out of character.
[Sarah Devitt]
is he was never afraid to express himself.
He was not afraid to be this big, bald man
with a pink polo and a purse
and his nails done.
Kevin was just one of my truest, closest friends,
uh, I ever had.
He was just very vibrant
and he always had an opinion about everything.
When I first met Kevin,
his major was psychology.
He would spread awareness about important topics
like the LGBTQ community and sexual violence prevention.
His passion was helping people.
[dramatic music playing]
[Moore]
to the Michigan State Police Computer Crimes lab.
And on the phone, they found a chat log
from a mobile dating app.
[Joshua Dirkse]
Kevin had been communicating with.
They were looking to have a date
and have a consensual sexual encounter.
There was banter about where they were going to meet.
And it did suggest that he was going to pick Kevin up
and transport him back to his home.
[Dirkse]
that it was a resident of Michigan, Mark Latunski.
We learned he was a 50-year-old divorced male.
He was known to run different online sex forums.
Um...
Almost like a male escort-type scenario.
[Nicholas Salski]
We just made a silent approach. We knocked.
Mark Latunski answered.
And we explained to him we were investigating
a missing person's complaint with Kevin Bacon.
Asked consent to search the house
and Mark Latunski granted it.
[suspenseful music playing]
Me and one of the other officers remained
with Mr. Latunski, just conversating with him
while they were searching the home.
Mark appeared very calm and collected,
not nervous whatsoever.
His Christmas tree was still up, we were talking about that.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Sgt. Berdan]
[Moore]
to a secluded room on the north side of the house.
The room had a sliding barn door
that only locked from the outside.
So if the searching officers were not really thorough,
it very easily could have been missed.
I remember thinking to myself,
"What in the world are we looking at?"
[Moore]
He was nude,
he was hanging from his feet by the ceiling of the basement.
There was a trapdoor that had been opened,
exposing sand and dirt.
And there was a dried pool of blood
directly below the body.
[Dirkse]
but initially, we couldn't see the injuries that he had.
[Moore]
so we matched the tattoos and hair
to the missing person flier.
That was how they identified Kevin.
[Salski]
Who could have done that to somebody?
[somber music playing]
I felt a lot of pressure.
Kevin is dead, he's got a family.
They were gonna want answers.
Um... I don't have them at all.
I just broadly asked him,
"Who is the man in the basement?"
And left it open-ended
and let him kinda direct his thought process.
[dramatic music playing]
[sighs]
Um...
Uh...
[ominous music playing]
He was framing the agreement as Kevin wanted to die.
That it was an assisted suicide.
They had conversations about how he could die
and what would happen after he died.
I felt, you know, he's murdered this person
and now he's certainly distancing himself.
Uh...
Um...
Uh...
[dramatic note plays]
Definitely wasn't prepared for that.
Fortunately, I was able to keep my composure for the most part.
But I think that my stomach was turning
right about that time.
-[Latunski speaking] -[camera clicking]
[sighs]
[Moore speaking]
[Moore]
I have nothing left to speak about with Mark.
I felt that I had everything
that I could give to the prosecutor
pertaining to his interrogation. So I ended the interview.
[somber music playing]
This is one of the most brutal, horrific murders I've seen,
not only in this county, but in the state.
[imperceptible]
As someone who works with survivors of sexual violence,
I think it's really important that we never victim-blame.
It was not Kevin's fault that this happened.
We can do everything right
and protect ourselves in the best way possible,
but at the end of the day,
it is the perpetrator who caused that to happen.
Still, to this day, it's hard sometimes.
I feel like it's not real.
And I just want everyone to think of rainbows
when they think about Kevin, because that's what he was.