Rock Road massacre
| Rock Road massacre | |
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Mugshot of Robert Lee Haggart | |
| Location | 5603 West Rock Road, 7 miles west of Farwell, Michigan, US |
| Coordinates | 43°50′3.4″N 84°57′42.6″W / 43.834278°N 84.961833°W |
| Date | 16 February 1982 |
Attack type | Mass murder, mass shooting |
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| Victims | 7 |
| Perpetrator | Robert Lee Haggart |
The Rock Road massacre, also known as the Farwell murders or Clare County murders, was a 1982 mass murder in which seven members of the George W. Post family, four adults and three children, were killed with a shotgun and a handgun at a farmhouse on Rock Road in Garfield Township just west of Farwell, Michigan, United States.
Robert Lee Haggart, a 32-year-old livestock auctioneer, was convicted of the murders. The murders occurred on the day before a court hearing to finalize Haggart's divorce from one of the victims, Garnetta (Ronning) Haggart.
In December 1982, the Associated Press (AP) included the Post family murders at No. 3 on its list of the most important news stories in Michigan during 1982. As of 2022, the massacre still ranked as the third-largest mass murder in Michigan history, after the 1927 Bath School disaster and the 1971 Hazelwood massacre.