Aerial survey · USDA NAIP · public domainA working Mount Morris salvage yard with a documented owner-murder in its past
7092 N. Dort Highway, Mount Morris, MI
Research updated May 2026
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Documented Court TV-Featured Homicide
The salvage business at 7092 North Dort Highway in Mount Morris, Michigan, on the northern fringe of metropolitan Flint, has operated under several names. For many years it was known as Auto City Junk Yard; the current operating business at the site is Rat Tech Engine Service.
A documented violent crime occurred on the property: a previous owner of the salvage yard was murdered in his on-site office by his wife's romantic partner. The case received national crime-television coverage, including a feature on Court TV. The salvage business has continued under successive ownership.
The broader Shadowlands narrative attached to the site, suggesting that the yard served as a body-disposal site during the 1980s and 1990s, is not supported by any law-enforcement record, news report, or court filing accessed during research. A former owner of the property publicly rejected the body-disposal claim. We treat that broader claim as unverified rumor and confine the documented history to the publicly-reported murder of the former owner.
Further coverage of the property comes from a 2020 follow-up by WFMK Michigan radio and a Mount Morris entry on HauntedPlaces.org. Both note that the site has cycled through several auto-salvage and small-engine operations and that a former owner has publicly stated no human remains were ever recovered on the property. The dominant folklore appears to attach to a documented mid-twentieth-century homicide involving a prior property owner.
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Staff working at the salvage yard since the documented homicide of the previous owner have reported a small set of office-area phenomena: doors slamming when the office is empty, brief unexplained noises, and a sense of presence in the workspace where the previous owner died. The current operator has described responding to these episodes by speaking aloud to the room and inviting the presence to settle down, after which the disturbances generally cease.
More dramatic narratives attached to the property in the 2000s era of internet ghost-folklore, including stories of phantom hitchhikers along Dort Highway and reported screams from inside the fenced yard, are not corroborated by any independent investigation, news source, or police-blotter record accessed during research. We do not repeat them here. The site itself is an active business on private property; no visit is appropriate without an invitation from the operator.
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An active salvage yard north of Flint, Michigan. The site is private property and posts strict no-trespassing rules. Interior visits are only appropriate during business hours and with the owner's permission.
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