Marco Bisbikis, left inset, and Roy Larry, middle inset, killed Dan “Hutch” Hutchinson, right inset. (Crime scene screenshot from WJBK/YouTube; Mug shots from Oakland County (Mich.) Sheriff; victim’s photo from his obituary.)
A Michigan attorney who had his jewelry store owner client murdered in a scheme to take millions of dollars in trust account money and his hit man who rode up on an electric bike and fired a hail of bullets into the victim’s SUV learned their fates this week.
Marco Bisbikis, 39, and Roy Larry, 46, were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the death of Dan “Hutch” Hutchinson, 47, and the attempted murder of Hutchinson’s wife as they sat in their SUV outside their pawnshop in 2022, prosecutors announced in a news release. Bisbikis and Larry were found guilty in May of first-degree premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree premeditated murder, assault with intent to murder, and two counts of felony firearm.
Family members tore into the defendants in court.
“Our grandma taught us to never use the word hate, Marco,” the victim’s sister said in court, recorded in video from inside the courtroom by Detroit Fox affiliate WJBK. “But we hate you. We all hate you. And Roy, I hope you rot from the inside out and die a horribly painful death.”
Bisbikis tried to argue he was wrongfully convicted over bad paperwork and said he’d appeal.
“I will be back, and I will be able to prove my innocence,” he said.
Larry apologized while also saying he was wrongfully convicted.
“I do want to apologize to the Hutchinson family,” he said, turning to them, hands cuffed, adding, “I did not kill your family member.”
Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said in the news release that the long-planned murder was motivated by greed.
“The sentences handed down by Judge Grant today will not bring Daniel Hutchinson back, but I hope they bring his family some peace,” she said.
As Law&Crime previously reported, Bisbikis was Hutchinson’s lawyer and wrote himself into Hutchinson’s will, then hired Larry to kill his client and his wife for millions of dollars in their trust.
The murder happened on June 1, 2022, when Larry rode up on an electric bicycle next to Hutchinson’s SUV on Greenfield Road near 8 Mile as the victim was leaving his jewelry store. He fired 14 rounds into the SUV before riding off and was quickly arrested.
Hutchinson was killed, and his wife, Marisa Hutchinson, survived.
In the trial, she testified about her and her husband’s lucrative, largely cash-only business catering to entertainers, sports stars and others, the Oakland Press reported. The business ballooned during the COVID-19 pandemic — when everybody else was locked down — jumping from $7 million in 2019 to $30 million in 2021, she said.
“Business was through the roof. It was hard to keep up,” she testified, the paper reported. “People had a lot of money during the pandemic — and they were itching to spend it.”
She talked about their will being created weeks before her husband was murdered. She said she didn’t ask questions or look at the paperwork.
“My husband trusted Mr. Bisbikis completely,” she said in court, the Royal Oak Daily Tribune reported.
Under an immunity agreement, Marisa Hutchinson testified that the jewelry store didn’t report all its cash transactions, in an attempt to avoid having to file tax forms. That unreported tax, she reportedly said, went to Bisbikis.
“Marco explained to us that over time this could go through a trust account, a lawyer trust account,” she said during the trial, according to WJBK. “Because of lawyer-client privilege, the origin of that money could not be questioned.”
During the sentencing, Oakland County Circuit Judge Nanci Grant remarked, “Nobody in this case was perfect. Nobody in this case deserved to lose their life for that.”
In addition to Bisbikis and Larry, two others, including Roy Larry’s cousin, pleaded guilty to related charges in exchange for agreeing to testify for the prosecution. They await sentencing.
Colin Kalmbacher contributed to this report.
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