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In the final hours of 2018, a tragedy unfolded in a quiet neighborhood in Battle Creek, Michigan, that would cut short the life of 58-year-old Howard Leon Gillette, a White/Caucasian male. On New Year's Day 2019, shortly after midnight, the Battle Creek Fire Department was dispatched to a fire at Gillette's residence on Graves Avenue. After extinguishing the blaze, firefighters made a grim discovery inside the home: the body of Howard Gillette.

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Victim Details

Howard Leon Gillette

Male

White / Caucasian

Battle-creek

MI

2018-12-31

58

Howard

Leon Gillette

01/25/2026