“We did not know where he was going and who he was meeting with. “That was our biggest obstacle in this investigation,” said Karl Bacon. Mark Latunski (mug shot)īacon’s parents, Karl and Pamela Bacon, said at a press conference they didn’t know if their son had any previous contact with Latunski.īut the father took issue with the folks at Grindr telling the press “They didn’t give us any info during the initial investigation.”Ĭalling the people in charge at the dating app “rather uncooperative,” the father said, “There’s no regulation of law on how they operate and how accountable they are to people’s activities on their apps.” If found guilty, Latunski faces life in prison. The medical examiner determined Bacon died sometime between late Christmas Eve and early Christmas Day. Police were led to the suspect’s home after some Facebook posts about the home in question were relayed to the Clayton Township Police Department, according to Kevin Bacon’s dad, Karl Bacon. Missing from the scene were his car keys.Īccording to, the young man’s body was found on December 28 at Latunski’s home in Shiawassee County’s Bennington Township, 25 miles west of Flint. Police eventually found Bacon’s car in a parking lot where a bag containing his phone, clothes, and wallet was discovered. According to Myers, he indicated he was “having fun.”īut when the 25-year-old hairstylist was a no-show at his family’s Christmas breakfast, they became concerned. saying he would be out for a while and wasn’t sure when he’d be home. on Christmas Eve.īacon then texted Myers at 6:12 p.m. reports that Kevin Bacon (not the actor), 25, of Swartz Creek, Michigan, told his housemate, Michelle Myers, he was meeting a man he’d met on the dating app around 5 p.m. Mark Latunski, 50, has been charged with one count of murder and one count of mutilation of the body of his alleged victim in a Grindr hookup gone terribly wrong.