Glenn McClean was a 69-year-old veteran and car enthusiast who lived on Riverwoods Drive North in Canton, Michigan. When Jeffrey Dwight Lockach needed a place to stay, Glenn let him move in, brought his pets along, and paid him to do mechanical work on his cars. It was the kind of arrangement built on trust, one homeowner extending a hand to someone with nowhere else to go.

Neighbors noticed the relationship wasn’t always smooth. Frequent arguments were reported between the two men, and Glenn’s son later said his father had mentioned being assaulted by Lockach at some point before he vanished. When Glenn was reported missing, Canton Police issued an alert tied to his 2021 Ford Mustang, the car he owned and the one Lockach had access to.

That alert led officers in Dearborn to a Mustang parked behind a Tim Hortons, with a man sitting in the back seat who would spend the next several minutes lying about who he was.

A story that kept changing

When officers approached the car, the man in the back seat identified himself only as “Jeff.” Asked about the vehicle’s owner, he claimed Glenn was on a plane to Florida. Minutes later, his story shifted entirely: now he was Glenn, claiming he’d heard from his son and needed to call him back. The inconsistencies piled up fast enough that officers detained him for questioning.

He also had an explanation ready for blood investigators had found at Glenn’s house, describing a friend’s dog that supposedly hit its head under a car he’d been working on in the garage, fractured its skull, and had to be rushed to a vet. Investigators never confirmed that story. When pressed for basic identifying information, he refused to give a birthdate or last name, insisting he didn’t have to answer. Eventually, he admitted his real identity: Jeffrey Dwight Lockach, with an outstanding warrant out of Westland for a missed court date.

What was in the trunk

While officers questioned Lockach, the Mustang itself was telling its own story. Blood stains marked the passenger seat. Tools, rubber gloves, a jack, and a pair of glasses with a missing lens sat scattered inside. When Canton Police arrived and opened the trunk, they found Glenn McClean’s body, bound at the wrists and ankles with bungee cords, wrapped in duct tape and a blanket, showing visible facial trauma and signs consistent with time having passed since death. Fire department personnel confirmed he was deceased at the scene.

An autopsy later documented at least 13 blunt-force trauma injuries to McClean’s head and torso, injuries investigators determined had occurred inside his own garage.

The resolution

Lockach was initially charged with premeditated first-degree murder. In April 2024, he accepted a plea deal and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder instead, receiving a sentence of 25 to 50 years in prison, with the possibility of parole after serving the minimum term.

It’s a case that turns on a single, uncomfortable fact: Glenn McClean opened his home to someone with nothing, and that decision ended with his body in the trunk of his own car, found only because a routine stop behind a coffee shop didn’t match the story the man in the back seat was telling.