Their deaths triggered a murder investigation which at the time was the largest in US history. The children were each held from 4 to 19 days before being killed. Witnesses last saw Mihelich alive at 3:00 pm on January 2nd at a 7-Eleven store located on Twelve Mile Road in Berkley.During a 13-month period, four children were abducted and murdered with their bodies left in various locations within the county. When she went missing on January 2, 1977, Mihelich, a resident of Berkley, Michigan, was only ten years old. Kristine Mihelich has the unenviable distinction of being the Oakland County Child Killer’s youngest victim.
Allen spoke about how fearful and remorseful he was and was losing his.Fear and near mass hysteria swept southeastern Michigan as young people were inundated with information on "stranger danger", and parents clogged streets around schools dropping off and picking up their children. Both Busch and Greene were accused and convicted of molesting a boy in Flint Michigan. Serial Killer Oakland County Child Killer (aka) The Babysitter Killer, was active for 2 years between 1976-1977, known to have ( 4 confirmed / 4 possible ) victims. Responsible for the murders of four or more children in Oakland County, Michigan in 19. 19,1976.Oakland County Child Killer Also known as 'The Babysitter'. 15, 1976, was discovered dead in Southfield on Feb.
Oakland County Child Murders: February 1976 March 1977 1012 Oakland County, Michigan: Unsolved During a 13-month period, four children (two girls and two boys) were abducted and murdered with their bodies left in various locations in suburban Detroit.The first of the four murders occurred in February 1976 and the last in March 1977. The Detroit News offered a $100,000 reward for the killer's apprehension.San Mateo County, California Unsolved Victims of an unidentified serial killer. He turned out to be a tire salesman on a business trip from Akron, Ohio, who had gotten lost with no knowledge of the slayings. One incident in Livonia involved a tow-truck driver who assaulted a man he had seen asking two boys on the street for directions. Children even avoided using a playground directly behind the Birmingham police station.
He had told his mother he was going home to watch television. Mark Stebbins, 12, of Ferndale, was last seen leaving an American Legion Hall on Sunday afternoon, February 15, 1976. A presentation on WXYT, entitled Winter's Fear: The Children, the Killer, the Search, won a 1977 Peabody Award.
He was fully clothed in the outfit he was wearing when last seen alive. Rope marks were seen on his wrists. He had been strangled and sexually assaulted with an object.
The body was placed within sight of the Troy police station, once again laid out neatly in the snow. She was fully clothed and still wearing her backpack. She was killed by a single shotgun blast to the face. Her body was found on the morning of December 26, along the side of Interstate 75 near Big Beaver Road in Troy. The day after her disappearance, her bicycle was found behind a hobby store on Main Street in that city.
An intensive search was executed that covered the entire Detroit metropolitan area, and there was widespread media coverage, already heavy with coverage on the previous three slayings. He left the store by the rear entrance, which opened to a parking lot shared with a supermarket, and vanished. Timothy King, 11, borrowed 30 cents from his older sister and left his home in Birmingham, skateboard in hand, to buy candy at a drugstore on nearby Maple Road on Wednesday, March 16, 1977, at about 8:30 pm. The body was laid within view of nearby homes, eyes closed and arms folded across the chest, once again in the snow. A mail carrier spotted her fully clothed body 19 days later on the side of a rural road in Franklin Village.
He survived the attack and it is believed that he may have been a victim of the Oakland County Child Killer. He was on his way to a friend's house when he was abducted and his bike was found three blocks away from his home. He was found on June 26 in the same clothes that he went missing in. James Davison, 13, was abducted June 22, 1974, around Morris Ave and Porter Ave in Allen Park, Wayne County, Michigan, and was missing for several days he was strangled and left in an alley face down in Oakland County.
Her assailant had burglarized several homes in the neighborhood earlier in the evening. Sheila Srock, 14, was raped and shot dead while babysitting in a home on Villa Street in Birmingham on January 20, 1976. Missing from Roseville, she was discovered nude and battered in Bloomfield Township in the early morning hours of January 16.
Authorities would eventually question every Gremlin owner in Oakland County.Investigators put together a profile of the killer based on witnesses' descriptions of the man seen talking to Timothy King the night he disappeared—a white male with a dark complexion, 25 to 35 years old with shaggy hair and sideburns. The vehicle was reportedly a blue AMC Gremlin with a white side stripe. A woman claimed she had seen a boy with a skateboard talking to a man in a parking lot of the drugstore that Timothy had told his parents he was going to in order to ride his skateboard. The Michigan State Police led a group of law-enforcement officials from 13 communities in the formation of a task force, devoted solely to the investigation.Soon after Timothy King was abducted, a composite drawing of the suspected kidnapper, and his vehicle, was released. Reports were released publicly of the possibility of a serial killer operating in the Oakland County area. Oliver Rhodes Andrews confessed to, and was convicted of the murder of Srock, and is serving a life sentence in prison.After the discovery of Kristine Mihelich's body, authorities realized they were dealing with three related cases and evidence that was similar.
AllenA few weeks after the death of Timothy King, Detroit psychiatrist Dr. The killer never struck again. The task force disbanded in December 1978 and the investigation was turned over to the State Police. Officer Davis was one of the first on the case and tried his hardest to bring closure to the families of the victims. However, task force members were unable to make much headway in the investigation. He was also believed to be familiar with the area and had the ability to keep children for long periods of time without rousing neighbors' suspicions.The task force checked out more than 18,000 tips, which resulted in about two dozen arrests on unrelated charges and the busting of a multi-state child pornography ring operating on North Fox Island in Lake Michigan (northwest of the Leelanau Peninsula).
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Soon after, Danto got a phone call from Allen, who offered to provide photographic evidence in exchange for a letter from the Governor of Michigan guaranteeing immunity from prosecution. Allen wrote that Frank wanted rich people to suffer for sending forces to Vietnam, and received nothing in return.Allen instructed Danto to respond by printing the code words "weather bureau says trees to bloom in three weeks" published in that Sunday's Free Press edition. Allen confirmed that Frank drove a Gremlin, but he (Frank) 'junked it out in Ohio never to be seen again'.Allen described that Frank was traumatized by killing children in the Vietnam War, in which he and Allen served, and was taking revenge on more affluent citizens such as the residents of Birmingham. Allen wrote that he accompanied Frank on many road trips seeking boys, but he never was present during the abductions for the boys that Frank murdered. Allen wrote a pleading, fearful and remorseful letter indicating that he was losing his sanity, endangered, and suicidal, convincing Danto that he was genuine. The letter's writer identified himself as "Allen" and claimed that he was a sadomasochist slave of his roommate 'Frank' who is the 'OCCK'.
Chris Busch had been in police custody shortly before Timmy's abduction for suspected involvement in child pornography. Chris BuschThe case sparked new interest when Timmy King's father, Barry, and brother, Chris, tried to get the Michigan State Police to release information about Chris Busch, the son of Harold Lee Busch, a high level General Motors executive. Sloan often lent his car out to his pedophile friends. However, the hair samples did not match other victims. Archibald Edward SloanSloan was a pedophile who victimized young boys in his neighborhood He became a person of interest when hair samples found in his 1966 Pontiac Bonneville matched hair found on the bodies of Timothy King and Mark Stebbins. Allen did not show, and was never heard from again.
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