Jun 24, 2013 · Susan Marie Bardo, 46, and her boyfriend, Carl James Pellinen, 47, were arrested in April for first-degree child abuse, first-degree criminal sexual conduct, and torture. The abuse of...

Aug 14, 2013 · Susan Marie Bardo, 46, sat with her head down while Judge Stephen Davis went above and beyond the 17.5-year sentencing guidelines recommendation. Davis sentenced her to two concurrent prison sentences of 20 years minimum, to up to 50 years maximum for torture and first-degree child abuse of her 15-year-old son since 2007.

Jan 19, 2018 · In 2007, Susan Bardo took her 10-year-old son, Curtis Miller, out of the Detroit home he shared with his father to the small port city of Escanaba on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Joined by her boyfriend Carl Pellinen, Bardo confined the young boy to an 8’ x 10’ unheated attic room for five years.

Aug 3, 2017 · He says his nightmare started when his mom Susan Bardo took him away from his dad in Detroit and got a new boyfriend named Carl Pellinen. To hide, they pulled him out of school and moved to...

Aug 4, 2017 · Birthdays passed alone in the attic, and Miller was 15 in 2013 when police, acting on a request for a welfare check from a relative, rescued him in what became an internationally sensational case....

Aug 19, 2013 · Carl James Pellinen, 47, was arrested on April 12 along with his girlfriend, Susan Marie Bardo, 46, of Escanaba. They were each charged with three felony counts in connection with the abuse of Bardo’s 15-year-old son since 2007.

Aug 14, 2013 · Susan Marie Bardo, 46, sat with her head down while Judge Stephen Davis went above and beyond the 17.5-year sentencing guidelines recommendation. Davis ruled she spend two concurrent prison...

Susan Marie Bardo, 46, and her boyfriend, Carl James Pellinen, 47, each entered pleas during separate hearings in Delta County Circuit Court on Thursday. They were arrested April 12 on charges of first-degree child abuse, first-degree criminal sexual conduct, and torture of Bardo’s 15-year-old son.

Apr 19, 2013 · Susan Bardo, 46, and her lover Carl Pellinen are accused of carrying out a sickening campaign of abuse against the 15-year-old boy they kept prisoner at their Escanaba home. Both have been...

Aug 14, 2013 · Susan Bardo, 46, was given 20 to 50 years in prison Tuesday for keeping the boy in an 8’-by-10’ room lined with tarps for the past four years. She pleaded guilty to first-degree child abuse and torture and could have received up to life in prison.