The Oakland County Child Killer

[DarkPrincess]

During a 13-month period, four children were abducted and murdered with their bodies left in various locations within the county. The children were each held from four to 19 days before being killed. Their deaths triggered a murder investigation which at the time was the largest in U.S. history.[1] The murders are still unsolved.
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. The few who did walk walked in groups and under the watchful eyes of parents in "safe houses", where children could go if they felt uncomfortable. Children even avoided using a playground directly behind the Birmingham police station.[2] One incident in Livonia involved a tow-truck driver who assaulted a man he had seen asking two boys on the street for directions. He turned out to be an Ohio tire salesman who had gotten lost with no knowledge of the slayings.[3] The Detroit News offered a $100,000 reward for the killer's apprehension.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland...y_Child_Killer

[Abroad]

Ah yes. This is the murderer also known as the Babysitter, because he kept the children for a while and washed them shortly before dumping them.

[DarkPrincess]

Ah yes. This is the murderer also known as the Babysitter, because he kept the children for a while and washed them shortly before dumping them.

Sick fuck. I hope he burns in Hell.

[Abroad]

Sick fuck. I hope he burns in Hell.

Apparently one of the mothers in her appeal to whoever was holding her son said she wanted him back so she could serve him his favorite meal of Kentucky Fried Chicken. When they found her son's corpse and autopsied him, they found fried chicken in his stomach......


Talk about sick.

[DarkPrincess]

Apparently one of the mothers in her appeal to whoever was holding her son said she wanted him back so she could serve him his favorite meal of Kentucky Fried Chicken. When they found her son's corpse and autopsied him, they found fried chicken in his stomach......


Talk about sick.

Yeah, I remember that now.... We need a real life Dexter to wipe these people out.

[Pete Bondurant]

This is sad. I like chicken too. I prefer Popeyes.

[DarkPrincess]

I prefer Popeyes.

You would.

[Morticia]

Never heard of this one, for a minute I thought it was the "Atlanta" murders.


The more I read the DD, my poor five year old son will have me take him to the bathroom at McDonald's till he's 30!!!

[RaVen Blackehart]

This is sad. I like chicken too. I prefer Popeyes.

Popeye's chicken is fuckin' AWESOME!~~Little Nicky

[malq]

Never heard of this one, for a minute I thought it was the "Atlanta" murders.


The more I read the DD, my poor five year old son will have me take him to the bathroom at McDonald's till he's 30!!!

No Shit Morticia, I don't trust anybody or anything when it comes to the public restrooms, especially after this.
George Michael Busted in Another Bathroom

http://www.tmz.com/2008/09/21/george...ther-bathroom/

[DarkPrincess]

Popeye's chicken is fuckin' AWESOME!~~Little Nicky

I love Little Nicky, but I'm a KFC fan.

[RaVen Blackehart]

No Shit Morticia, I don't trust anybody or anything when it comes to the public restrooms, especially after this.
George Michael Busted in Another Bathroom

http://www.tmz.com/2008/09/21/george...ther-bathroom/

Or this:

Brandon Wilson, accused of murdering a nine-year-old boy in a public restroom, has a unique, some would say, disturbing defense — he claims that he was told by God to kill young Matthew Cecchi. Wilson, described as a twenty-year-old drifter from Wisconsin, claims he had a vision while taking LSD. In a supposedly divine encounter, Wilson claims it was revealed to him that committing the murder would be God's will. The defense claims Wilson believed that if he carried out his fatal task, he would be admitted into a heavenly circle for God's chosen few.

On the day of the murder, Matthew Cecchi, his mother and younger brother, attended a family reunion. When Matthew's aunt escorted him to a public bathroom, no one could have predicted the tragedy that would occur moments later. According to Wilson's own statements, he yanked Matthew's head back and stabbed the boy in the left side of his throat. He then severed Matthew's jugular veins, carotid arteries and ripped out the boy's larynx. After the murder, Wilson shaved his head and went to Los Angeles, where he was arrested for the alleged stabbing of another victim — this time, a forty year old woman.

At his arraignment, Wilson admitted that he was guilty of the murder. In a shocking outburst, he exclaimed, "I'm guilty, I did it. I did it. I killed him. I killed the little boy."

http://www.courttv.com/archive/trial...91499_ctv.html

[witzah]

http://www.freep.com/article/2011071...-by-grand-jury


A grand jury is expected to hear evidence in the Oakland County Child Killer case,according to a county official.

Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, who was prosecutor when someone kidnapped and murdered Timmy King,Mark Stebbins, Kristine Mihelich and Jill Robinson in 1976 and 1977,said he expects the homicide case to be one of 30 on the table for the Oakland County Grand Jury to review.

But Patterson urges that the move should not be misinterpreted as an indication that an arrest is imminent.

“I don’t consider this to be a major breakthrough on the child killer case,” he said. “I’m sure it’s going to be one of the cases reviewed. We’ve been down so many dead end streets with this case. So I’m hopeful, but I’m not overly optimistic at this point.”

He commended Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper for convening the grand jury and reviewing the case, which should provide people a measure of hope that a killer might someday be found.

“I want them to be cautiously hopeful,” he said. “I know several of the families. I want more than anything for those families to have some closure.”

Oakland County Assistant Prosecutor Paul Walton today would only acknowledge that Cooper asked county officials to fund a grand jury convened in late May. She asked for 13 to 17 Oakland County residents to spend up to a year reviewing evidence and testimony about unsolved Oakland County homicide cases,he said.

“It doesn’t necessarily have to be a cold case but an unsolved homicide,” he said this morning,explaining that he could not acknowledge which cases the jury will be reviewing,including the Oakland County Child Killer case.

News of the grand jury probe brought a new wave of hope to families who have been waiting decades for justice.

“I’m excited,” said Barry King,80,of Birmingham,whose son Timothy King disappeared March 16,1977 after he left the family home to skateboard to a nearby convenience store for candy. He never returned. His body was discovered March 22 in a ditch in Livonia. He had been sexually assaulted and smothered.

The grand jury,King said,may provide some definitive answers. “This is the first opportunity, that I’m aware,of where somebody is going to have to make some determinations about what happened here.”

This is the first grand jury seated in Oakland County since those assembled in 1999 and 1996,Walton added. Secret by statute,13 to 17 residents of Oakland County will hear evidence presented in each case,then vote on whether to indict the suspect for the crime.

[witzah]

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/27944695/detail.html

DETROIT -- With the help of DNA technology, there has been a physical match in the Oakland County Child Killer case, providing a new suspect never before named.

From February 1976 to March 1977, a serial killer was abducting and holding four young children against their will for several days before killing them, then cleaning their bodies and clothes and placing them on display throughout Metro Detroit.

For 35 years it has been an unsolved mystery with a lot of speculation, but no physical evidence.

Watch: DNA Links New Suspect In Oakland County Child Killer Case

There is new hope for solving the murders of Mark Stebbins, Kristin Mihelich, Jill Robinson and Timothy King.

There are four blockbuster new pieces of evidence:

1. White animal hair connects all four cases. 2. A DNA match from new hairs discovered on one of the victims leads to this new suspect. 3. Police find a startling drawing at a suspect's home. 4. A police report surfaces from the 1970s that sent investigators looking around a northern Michigan cottage Tuesday afternoon.

[witzah]

For the last 33 years, Barry King and his family have sought to learn who killed his 11-year-old son in 1977, one of four children who were abducted and murdered in the mid-1970s in Oakland County.

For the past three years, King was convinced that he knew the answer.

And today, following the recent court-ordered release of 3,400 pages of investigative records compiled by the Michigan State Police, King says it is clear to him that Christopher Busch, a pedophile who was convicted four times of rape with a minor, was involved in the killing of Timothy King.

“I am now more convinced than ever,” King said in an interview.

But the Michigan State Police, who head a task force investigation into the crimes, decline comment. They say the investigation is still active.

The documents were released as the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the King family against the State Police. A judge ordered the agency to release the investigative files. The agency has billed the King family $11,000 for the documents, though the court will ultimately decide what charges, if any, there will be.

The records reveal: Busch had been charged, and later convicted, four times in the first three months of 1977 with criminal sexual conduct with a minor in four counties: Oakland, Montmorency, Genesee and Midland. With each charge, Busch’s father, H. Lee Busch (a prominent General Motors executive) posted cash bonds to free his son. One of his victims said Busch’s mother drove to his Flint neighborhood in a limousine, offering him money if he agreed not to say anything to the police. Busch pleaded to a lesser charge and received probation in each of the four cases.

Other children molested by Busch and his companion Gregory Greene told the Oakland County Child Killings Task Force in 1977 that the two men would drive them around in their cars and would have them “lure kids closer to the car by talking to them.” One victim said he had been choked unconscious while being molested.

This victim also said he recognized photos of Timothy as being the same boy seen with Busch. He said he saw a Polaroid photo of Timothy tied up in Busch’s car.

In an Oakland County Child Killing Task Force interview about his pedophile activity, Busch is said to have listed the locations where he picked up and dropped off boys in the same chronological order that matched the abduction sites of the other three Oakland County children who were killed: Nine Mile and Woodward Avenue in Ferndale (the same location from which Mark Stebbins disappeared), 13 Mile and Woodward in Royal Oak (Jill Robinson was last seen near the Tiny Tim Hobby Center) and the 7-Eleven on 12 Mile in Berkley (where Kristine Mihelich went to purchase a teen magazine). Timothy had not yet been abducted.

On March 16, 1977, Timothy was kidnapped near a Birmingham drugstore and was found six days later alongside a road in Livonia. King said the records are proof that if Busch had been detained by police, his son might be alive today.

Busch questioned, released

Busch lived in Birmingham while the community was being terrorized by the rash of kidnappings and murders of the four children that began in February 1976 and ended with Timothy’s death on March 22, 1977. Each child’s body was clean, fully dressed and tossed by public roadsides. All were found in Oakland County except Timothy, who was found in Wayne County.

In late January 1977, Busch, then 27, was facing a rape charge in Flint and was questioned by Flint and task force investigators about the murder of Mark Stebbins, the first victim in the Oakland County child killings. According to the records, several investigators and then-Deputy Oakland County Prosecutor Dick Thompson thought Busch would be charged with the Stebbins murder, based on his criminal record and responses to investigators. But after a lie detector test was administered by Michigan State Police examiner Ralph Cabot, Busch was released.

Six weeks later, Timothy was abducted and murdered.

Busch committed suicide in November 1978. The State Police records reveal evidence left at the suicide scene that might have linked Busch to the killings was never pursued by law enforcement. The evidence included ropes and ligatures found on the floor of his bedroom closet and a drawing closely resembling first victim Mark Stebbins that hung on his bedroom wall.

“I still think it is possible there was a cover-up,” King said. “I also want to know why it took over 30 years for the Chris Busch lead to be uncovered.”

Michigan State Police Capt. Harold Love said he has no comment on the release of the records, adding: “We continue to work the case and pursue all leads.”

Reports reveal evidence.

Part of the reason King and his children said they are suspicious of the investigation is because the family, not law enforcement, was responsible for bringing the Busch lead to light. Timothy’s mother, Marion, died in 2004.

In 2006, former neighbor Patrick Coffey, a licensed polygrapher, called the Kings with information that Larry Wasser, a Southfield polygrapher, had confided to him that Busch had implicated himself in the child killings during a polygraph exam he conducted more than 30 years ago.

Armed with Busch’s name, Detective Sgt. Cory Williams of the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office and Detective Sgt. Garry Gray of the Michigan State Police examined the State Police records, conducted their own investigation and uncovered the circumstantial evidence tying him and Greene to the killings.

Other findings in the State Police report: A tip was called into the Montmorency Sheriff’s Department while Busch was at his family cottage on Ess Lake near Hillman. A woman pleaded with police to go to the cottage, saying she had seen Busch — known to her as a pedophile out on bond — in town with minors. The call came on March 19, 1977, during the time Timothy was missing, which was between March 16 and March 22. There was no indication that law enforcement acted on the tip. A former cellmate of Greene’s told detectives Williams and Gray that Greene said “he got away with killing four kids in the past.” Greene died in prison of a heart attack in 1995. He was 45.

In early 2008, Williams enlisted three independent polygraph examiners to re-examine the original polygraphs of Busch and Greene that led to Busch’s release in the Stebbins investigation. Their findings are blocked out in the documents the King family received.

In April 2008, in an interview with the FBI in New York City, Charles Busch, Christopher Busch’s only living sibling, requested that as a condition for supplying his DNA, family members living in Michigan be allowed to enter a “witness protection-type program.” He also said that later in his life, his father, H. Lee Busch, who died at age 90 in 2002, shredded all of the family documents, including birth certificates.

Prosecutor refuses to talk

In light of this evidence, King said he feels some vindication in his pursuit of information but failure in his pursuit of justice. He said he wants to meet with Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper, but she has refused to talk with him.

“The Michigan Constitution says that crime victims have a right to confer with the prosecutor,” King said.

“I will feel like justice has been served when the Oakland County prosecutor explains to me why Busch is not guilty. I am sick and tired of a four-time convicted sexual pedophile being treated better than my family and the families of Mark Stebbins, Kristine Mihelich and Jill Robinson.”

Cooper responded in an e-mail that she cannot comment because “there is an active, open and ongoing investigation that would be compromised by the release of any information regarding Christopher Busch.”

The King family also filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Oakland County prosecutor seeking its Busch-related files. Oakland County Circuit Judge Wendy Potts decided against the Kings, saying the prosecutor’s information on Busch was “sensitive,” and disclosure of the information could interfere with the investigation. However, the judge urged the prosecutor “to communicate as openly and freely as possible with Plaintiffs and other family members of the OCCK victims.”

When asked if he felt the documents were worth $11,000, King replied: “It was Tim’s college money.”

http://thegirlfromtheghetto.wordpres...-child-killer/

[Whisper]

Theres also a video and pic at the link at bottom
I had no clue this thread existed here,
I was just a small kid when these happened but have been consumed by the case for as long as I can remember
I have belonged to a group here for few years devoted to proving who the Oakland County Child Killer/The Baby Sitter Killer was
They have known for decades about Christopher Busch but his family has money and even though he killed himself years ago they have the proof just piecing it together.
I have met the father of Timothy King at a function and he has tried for years to prove what he knows and finally looks like they may be able to cut through the red tape and Busch family wont be able to hide behind the money
All 4 killings were tragic but Timothys I guess hit harder b/c it shows the killer watched about himself on the news
Just before Timothy was found dead his family was on TV and his dad said when they got him home they were going to get his fave dinner of KFC for him
He was found dead a day or so later and at autopsy his last meal was his fave KFC!

Heres tonights update



Oakland County Child Killer Task Force Requests old Channel 7 film footage

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WXYZ) - Proof that the grand jury investigation into the Oakland County Child Killer case is heating up. Today Child Killer Task Force detectives asked Action News for copies of old archive footage from the case.

These homicides happened 35 years ago… and now Task Force detectives want to look through the old film footage that Channel 7 may have from the days of the original investigation.

Film footage like this from the 1970s may hold clues to the killer – or killers – detectives are pursuing in the Oakland County Child Killer case.

Investigators from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office requested copies of old footage from the crime scenes and from the funerals of all four victims.

An Oakland County grand jury is currently hearing evidence in the unsolved murders. Between 1976 and 1977 four children were abducted along the Woodward corridor, held captive for days, and then murdered.

Now new detectives are on the task force and a grand jury is hearing testimony and examining evidence – in the hopes of solving a case that still haunts so many families who are hoping for answers… especially Barry King, who’s son Tim was the killer’s fourth and final victim.

“I would like to know who killed Tim. And it’s been one of my wishes before they put me in the box,” King told Action News last month.

It’s highly likely that detectives are looking for something specific in the old footage, but prosecutors and task force investigators are not revealing what they’re after.
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http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/local_n...#ixzz1Vu97wK1z

[Whisper]

The brother of Timmy King article and pics
http://www.downtownpublications.com/...=206015.112113

Wiki has the best article to sum it all up,was updated not long ago

Victims[edit] ConfirmedMark Stebbins, 12, of Ferndale, was last seen leaving an American Legion Hall on Sunday afternoon, February 15, 1976. He had told his mother he was going home to watch television. His body was found on February 19, neatly laid out in a snowbank in the parking lot of an office building at Ten Mile Road and Greenfield in Southfield (some reports claim Oak Park; Greenfield is the boundary between the two cities). He had been strangled and sexually assaulted with an object. Rope marks were seen on his wrists. He was fully clothed in the outfit he was wearing when last seen alive.[2]
Jill Robinson, 12, of Royal Oak, packed a backpack and ran away from her home on Wednesday, December 22, 1976, following an argument with her mother over dinner preparations. The day after her disappearance, her bicycle was found behind a hobby store on Main Street in that city. Her body was found on the morning of December 26, along the side of Interstate 75 near Big Beaver Road in Troy. She was killed by a single shotgun blast to the face. She was fully clothed and still wearing her backpack. The body was placed within sight of the Troy police station, once again, laid out neatly in the snow.[2]
Kristine Mihelich, 10, of Berkley, was last seen Sunday, January 2, 1977 at 3:00 p.m. at a 7-Eleven store on Twelve Mile Road at Oakshire in Berkley, purchasing a magazine. A mail carrier spotted her fully clothed body 19 days later on the side of a rural road in Franklin Village. She had been smothered. The body was laid within view of nearby homes, eyes closed and arms folded across the chest, once again in the snow.[2]
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 p.m. He left the store by the rear entrance, which opened to a parking lot shared with a supermarket, and vanished.[2] An intensive search was executed that covered the entire Detroit metropolitan area, and there was widespread media coverage, already heavy with coverage of the previous three slayings. In an emotional television appeal, Timothy's father, Barry King, begged the abductor to release his son unharmed. In a letter printed in the Detroit News, Marion King wrote that she hoped Timothy could come home soon so she could serve him his favorite meal, Kentucky Fried Chicken. In the late evening hours of March 22, 1977, two teenagers in a car spotted his body in a shallow ditch alongside Gill Road, about 300 feet south of Eight Mile Road in Livonia, just across the county line in Wayne County. His skateboard was placed next to his body. His clothing had been neatly pressed and washed. He had been suffocated and sexually assaulted with an object. The postmortem showed that Timothy had eaten fried chicken before he was slain.[2]
[edit] SuspectedThere were other abductions and murders around the Oakland County area within the same period. These are not specifically tied to the four victims above due to variations in the cases.

Cynthia Cadieux, 16, was abducted and bludgeoned to death on the evening of January 15, 1976. Missing from Roseville, she was discovered nude and battered in Bloomfield Township in the early morning hours of January 16.[3]
[edit] DisprovedSheila Srock, 14, was raped and shot dead while babysitting in a home on Villa Street in Birmingham on January 20, 1976. Her assailant had burglarized several homes in the neighborhood earlier in the evening. A neighbor had watched the entire attack in horror from his roof, where he was shoveling snow.[4] Oliver Rhodes Andrews confessed to, and was convicted of the murder of Srock, and is serving a life sentence in prison. [5]
[edit] InvestigationAfter the discovery of Kristine Mihelich's body, authorities quickly realized they were dealing with three cases and evidence that were closely similar. Reports were released publicly of the possibility a serial killer was operating in the Oakland County area. 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. 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 ride his skateboard to. The vehicle was reportedly a blue AMC Gremlin with a white side stripe. 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. Authorities believed that the killer had a job that gave him freedom of movement and may have appeared to be someone that a child might trust, such as a police officer, clergyman or a doctor. 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.

Detroit psychiatrist Dr. Bruce Danto, who worked with the task force, received a letter several weeks after Timothy King's body was found from a man named "Allen", who claimed that he was the killer's roommate and even helped look after the victims. Allen said his roommate had been traumatized by killing children in the Vietnam War and was taking revenge out on more affluent citizens. Soon after, Danto got a phone call from Allen, who offered to provide photographic evidence in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Under police surveillance, the psychiatrist arranged to meet Allen at a gay bar near Detroit's exclusive Palmer Woods neighborhood. Allen did not show, and was never heard from again.

The task force checked out more than 18,000 tips, but was unable to make much headway in the investigation. The task force disbanded in December 1978. The killer never struck again.

[edit] Theodore LamborginePolice in Parma Heights, Ohio arrested Ted Lamborgine, a retired auto worker believed to have been involved in a child porn ring in the 1970s. On March 27, 2007, investigators told Detroit television station WXYZ that Lamborgine was considered the top suspect in this case. Lamborgine pleaded guilty to 15 sex-related counts involving young boys rather than accept a plea bargain that would have required him to take a polygraph test on the Oakland County child killings. Lamborgine also rejected an offer of a reduced sentence in exchange for a polygraph on the case.[6]

In October 2007, the family of Mark Stebbins filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Lamborgine seeking $25,000. The lawsuit alleges Lamborgine, who lived in Metro Detroit in the late 1970s, abducted Mark and held him captive in a Royal Oak house for four days in February 1976 before smothering him to death during a sex assault. Lamborgine has never been formally linked nor charged in the death of Mark Stebbins. Attorney David A. Binkley seeks compensation, including funeral costs, for Stebbins' brother, Michael, but stressed money is secondary.[6]

[edit] Chris BuschThe case has recently sparked new interest. Timmy King's father, Barry, and brother, Chris, have been trying to get the Michigan State Police to release information about Chris Busch, the son of Harold Lee Busch, a high level GM Executive. Chris Busch had been in police custody shortly before Timmy's abduction for suspected involvement in a Child Pornography Ring. He committed suicide in 1978. There has been no confirmed activity of the Oakland County Child Killer since his death. [7] The Michigan State Police have now released 3400 pages of investigative records to Barry King.[8]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland...y_Child_Killer

I have millions of files on my comp and in hand on this case and all the twists and turns in the case where actual adults that were kids at the time have turned their own parents in(and one actually looked pretty good couple years ago and he was alread in prison on child rape but didnt pan out)

[Obsolete]

Sheila Srock, 14, was raped and shot dead while babysitting in a home on Villa Street in Birmingham on January 20, 1976. Her assailant had burglarized several homes in the neighborhood earlier in the evening. A neighbor had watched the entire attack in horror from his roof, where he was shoveling snow

Um...WTF dude?

[Whisper]

I meant to add the Busch family has a cabin up north and Chris and his buddys were there when these kids disappeared each time
Each child was bathed and groomed before being killed and dumped
They found the most evidence against Chris Busch at the family cabin but we dont know all they found of course they have to keep some to themselves
They stopped investigating him when he committed suicide as they were gathering more and more evidence against him
so happy for the families to at least finally (hopefully) know for sure
This is huge around here b/c its so close and its always been such a mystery and scarey also

[biteme]

Prosecutor on down involved in this case should be shot, the families of the children murdered should get first choice to pull the trigger
Seems there was a huge conspiracy, bought with family money, those bought to let a pedophile murder have his way with children, should all pay with their lives. Money always leaves a trail and I'm sure it took plenty to create this fuck-up, how much did the family pay out per child, what was the value of a child's life to locale LE. Were they hoping for more deaths so they could collect more money
Follow the money put them all in jail.

[4Cats]

For the last 33 years, Barry King and his family have sought to learn who killed his 11-year-old son in 1977, one of four children who were abducted and murdered in the mid-1970s in Oakland County.



When asked if he felt the documents were worth $11,000, King replied: “It was Tim’s college money.”

http://thegirlfromtheghetto.wordpres...-child-killer/

fucking breaks ya heart. no parent should have to bury their child.

[witzah]

fucking breaks ya heart. no parent should have to bury their child.

yeah....that quote about it being Tim's college fund really struck a chord in me

[Whisper]

New information released in Oakland County child killer case
Photos of Oakland County Child Killer suspect's suicide scene released

DETROIT -
The families of the victims of the Oakland County Child Killer have released photographs of the 1978 suicide scene of a suspect in the case to the Local 4 Defenders.

From February 1976 to March 1977, a serial killer abducted and held four children against their will for several days before killing them, then left their bodies throughout metro Detroit.

The victims, all from homes in Oakland County, were 12-year-old Mark Stebbins, 12-year-old Jill Robinson, 10-year-old Kristine Mihelich and 11-year-old Timothy King.
No one has ever been charged in the more than 30-year-old case.

Christopher Busch, a convicted sex offender, was questioned in the case, but was released.

He later committed suicide.
However, the victims’ families have been vocal about their allegations of his responsibility.

King’s family filed a lawsuit in order for police to turn over their information against Busch.

VIEW:Inside Christopher Busch's home

Chis King, Timothy King's brother, said he thinks Busch was involved because the photos show potential evidence linked to the cases.

One photograph shows a drawing that was pinned on Busch’s wall, which closely resembles Stebbins.

The photographs also show ropes that appear to have blood on them and shotgun shell.

Robinson was killed by a shotgun blast.

"Now we have hard evidence and we expect them to do their job," Chris King said.

The Defenders have also learned that the Michigan State Police are requesting DNA from all living family member of the four victims to make sure all samples are current.
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http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/i...g/-/index.html


27 pics here
http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/local_n...-suicide-scene
I didnt see anything and they have blacked out alot of space in most photos

[Whisper]

Big Story Around Here,New Evidence,More Victims?

Defenders find new evidence in Oakland County Child Killer case
Victims' families fight to have investigative documents made public

DETROIT -
The Local 4 Defenders have found never before seen evidence in the Oakland County Child Killer case.

Investigators were told the files were destroyed, but the Defenders went digging. Someone saved a copy all these years just in case it might lead to the identity of the Oakland County Child Killer.

The Defenders turned the documents over to the Oakland County and Wayne County prosecutors' offices, and to the Michigan State Police, which is in charge of the task force investigating the murders.
You go up there, do a little homework and provide it to us. God bless you," said Barry King, whose son Timothy King was among the victims killed.

The King family had never before seen dozens of the documents which detail facts and information that police and prosecutors never knew.

Now, the documents are open for investigation for the first time. They include an investigator's notes from a sexual predator investigation in Montmorency County. It reads, "The Oakland County task force that was involved in the investigation of the kidnapping and homicide of five juveniles ... became involved in this matter." The document is dated Jan. 31, 1977. That was before Timothy King was abducted and killed.

"It's disturbing that chunks of evidence are missing or haven't been looked at," said Chris King, Timothy King's brother.

The King family had no idea that there was a task force before Tim's abduction and no idea that he might be the 6th victim. They were told for more than 30 years that there were only four victims: Mark Stebbins, Kristine Mehalic, Jill Robinson and Timothy King.

"We just want to make sure police and the prosecutors have done their due diligence and have done their job," Chris King said. "We just want to make sure that police have all evidence, look at all the evidence and follow it where it leads."

Sources say the task force is looking at the possibility of at least two more victims.

The victims' families are suing law enforcement to release more documents. They want everything known about the Oakland County Child Killer made public, citing John Walsh of America's Most Wanted. Walsh did just that to find out who killed his son, Adam.

"(Adam's) father, John Walsh, fought the judge to the end about making the records available to the public," Barry King said. "They finally made it available to the public, and two new witnesses show up, tying young Adam to the principle suspect."

The King family and police are pouring through the new documents discovered by the Defenders. They are finding several new clues. They say the documents show known suspects have been changing their stories.

Last summer, the Defenders reported that investigators from Wayne County took a road trip to northern Michigan. They were looking for physical evidence and criminal files involving two suspects in the case: Christopher Busch and James Vincent Gunnels. Gunnels told police he was abused by Busch at a family cottage in Montmorency County. However, when investigators arrived at the cottage, they found it had been torn down and the 35-year-old files were destroyed to make room for newer cases.

A Local 4 viewer saw the Defenders' reports and called with a surprise: They had saved a copy of the files, just in case.

Now, that viewer's gut instinct may help solve the case of Michigan's biggest unsolved serial murder mystery.
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http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/i...8/-/index.html


good video at link

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Canadian law students revamping this cold case up
College students investigate Oakland County Child Killer case
University of Western Ontario students focus on cold cases

DETROIT -
These Canadian college students turn cold cases into open cases.

They're work has even led to arrests. This year's class project is one that hits close to home for Metro Detroiters: The Oakland County Child Killer case.

In 1976 and 1977, four Oakland County children were kidnapped, help captive for days and then killed and place along public streets in Metro Detroit. The children ranged between ages 10 and 12. They were meticulously bathed and their clothes were cleaned prior to being found.
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The objective is really to use new media research techniques, to look into old files on cold cases," said Renee Willmon, of the University of Western Ontario's Cold Case Society.

Now, there are fresh eyes digging into the 35-year-old mystery.

"And hopefully provide some outside consultation and analysis to aid the investigation wherever possible," Willmon said.

The students are trying to do what investigative units have failed to do up to this point: Solve the Oakland County Child Killer case.

"There are 15 of us from different programs on campus who have an interest in investigation and forensic kind of work who are working on this case," said Willmon.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/i...z/-/index.html

video at links pretty good

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Attorney says more victims possible in Oakland County Child Killer case

(WXYZ) - [...]
An attorney has called a press conference to announce alleged new victims that may be tied to the Oakland County Child Killer case.

Four children were abducted and murdered between 1976 and 1977 and so far, their killer has never been caught.

Attorney Paul Hughes announced a press conference for next Tuesday in which he plans to raise questions about how Oakland County prosecutor Jessica Cooper has handled the case.

Hughes also suggests in his press release that as many as 11 additional victims may be tied to the serial killings, and is calling for an independent investigation by the Department of Justice.

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/local_n...#ixzz1sL50JXF2

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Detroit lawyer files suit alleging cover-up in Oakland County Child Killer case

WXYZ) - A Detroit attorney has filed a $100 million dollar lawsuit against the Oakland County Prosecutor, the Oakland County Sheriff and the Michigan State Police.

He’s expected to hold a press conference tomorrow, where he’ll announce other potential victims of the child killer.

The lawsuit alleges a conspiracy, cover-up, and misconduct by the prosecutor.

The members of two of the victims’ families have led a very public battle for more information about who killed four innocent children in the 1970s. But those family members - who’ve been so public about their quest – say the announcement of this press conference took them by surprise and they don’t know what to expect.

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It never goes away. It never dies. And anybody who says there’s any closure – there is no such thing,” said Kristine Mihelich’s stepfather, Tom Ascroft.

Between 1976 and 1977, Kristine and 3 other children who lived along the Woodward Corridor were abducted, held for days, and then murdered.

Despite the fact that secret grand juries in both Oakland and Wayne Counties have been hearing testimony about the killings – Detroit attorney Paul Hughes is calling a press conference. Hughes says he’s representing Debbie Jarvis, Kristine’s mother.

But the other family members who have been actively pursuing answers in the case for years – including the King family, Ascroft, and Kristine’s sister Erica McAvoy -- say they knew nothing about the upcoming press conference.

“We’re really saddened that something would happen like this, without us being notified,” Ascroft told 7 Action News Investigator Heather Catallo.

Hughes tells 7 Action News that he plans to suggest that as many as 11 additional child serial killer victims could be connected to the four – and he’s suggesting a cover-up with-in law enforcement.

Hughes also announced a website to solicit donations to fund his efforts.

On the site, a donation of $1,500 will get you a copy of the report that will allegedly be submitted to the Department of Justice, or DOJ, once that report is finished.

“When I saw it, when my daughter Erica saw it, and a few other people, we were upset. Because we weren’t asking for money, we don’t want money,” said Ascroft.

“I lost my son, and I know what it means to lose a son. For somebody to say donate money to me, I can solve this crime – it pisses me off,” said Oakland County Executive Brooks Patterson. Patterson was the prosecutor during the child killings.

“We were doing everything we could as these crimes became more expansive and went from 2 to 3 to 4. To suggest that somebody in that system would have had any reason to protect the killer and cover up legitimate evidence, that’s an outrage,” said Patterson.

Hughes won’t say what evidence he has to connect the four children to additional victims, but says he will turn it over to the DOJ if they answer his call to investigate.

But the DOJ is already involved – the FBI’s labs have been used to analyze evidence in this case, and FBI agents have helped the Task Force over the years.

Extensive profiles of the victims of serial killers are already maintained the in FBI’s ViCAP system – a national law enforcement database that automatically looks for links between other potential victims.

“In our experience, we have had all sorts of leads and claims that we investigate,” said Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper.

Cooper can’t discuss any case that’s currently before the grand jury – but she did tell us she doesn’t know how someone who hasn’t been part of the investigation can cry foul unless he or she knows all the facts.

“If somebody wants to write a book, somebody wants to become famous, somebody wants to make $1,500 a hit on whatever it is he’s selling in this press conference he’s calling - that’s not fair. It’s not fair to people who are legitimately looking and investigating and trying to find it – its definitively unfortunate to have family members exploited again and again,” said Cooper.

The press conference is scheduled for Tuesday morning at 11:00 a.m. 7 Action News will be there, and we’ll bring you all of the latest information right here on WXYZ.com.

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/local_n...#ixzz1svLU0Uta

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New information released in Oakland County child killer case
Photos of Oakland County Child Killer suspect's suicide scene released
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/i...g/-/index.html


27 pics here
http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/local_n...-suicide-scene
I didnt see anything and they have blacked out alot of space in most photos

Oh sweet baby Jesus.....I saw the picture they say looks like Mark Stebbins and when I looked for further information it said that when the killer had dressed the boy he put his jacket on and pulled up the hood before placing him next to the dumpster where he was found. The picture depicts a screaming child wearing a hooded jacket. He may have been the first, which may explain why Busch kept the drawing of him for so long. Like stated in the article above there may have been more prior to him.

I almost wish I didn't read the details.....ugh. The articles here thus far have not been specific and I probably shouldn't have went looking for more.

I haven't even clicked the links to the other victims and I am blown away by the story of Mark Stebbins. The police messed up, the killer possibly taunting the police and family the day of the funeral. Just aweful shit. Not to mention details on his death. Oye, I know I need to stop reading but can't help myself.

Okay after reading more I feel the previous cases were unrelated. Two people are serving time for 2 of those previous deaths. Also the ages and area are all wrong. So is the MO. I don't know why people linked them to these murders but I highly doubt it.

I just read the case of Jillian....my God she knew someone would shoot her some day to the point she had a severe anixety and fear of it. It broke my heart. Broke my heart how she probably didn't die right away even though being shot in the head. Then again the police dropped the ball and destroyed evidence....fuck man.


Here are some things I found odd. Why did he only shoot the one victim? Did she tell him her fear and he used it against her? Secondly after reading all 4 stories he only sexually assulted the boys. The girls had no evidence of penetration though they do believe he had the girls perform oral (they found seman on Kristine though she had not been penetrated vaginally or anally) Just bizarre. Another thing I don't understand is why did he stop? Whoever the killer is seemed to enjoy taunting the police. Something must have spooked him. It's crazy.

For those interested enough & haven't read it already I'm reading from this website.

http://greatadthulhu.angelfire.com/page3.html

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Oh sweet baby Jesus.....I saw the picture they say looks like Mark Stebbins and when I looked for further information it said that when the killer had dressed the boy he put his jacket on and pulled up the hood before placing him next to the dumpster where he was found. The picture depicts a screaming child wearing a hooded jacket. He was the first, which may explain why Busch kept the drawing of him for so long.

I almost wish I didn't read the details.....ugh. The articles here thus far have not been specific and I probably shouldn't have went looking for more.

I haven't even clicked the links to the other victims and I am blown away by the story of Mark Stebbins. The police messed up, the killer possibly taunting the police and family the day of the funeral. Just aweful shit. Not to mention details on his death. Oye, I know I need to stop reading but can't help myself.

For those interested enough & haven't read it already I'm reading from this website.

http://greatadthulhu.angelfire.com/page3.html

The whole thing is horrible but the ones that stand out to me is the one girl was shot in the face
and the King family was on tv news begging for his return and said they would have his fave dinner of KFC when he came home
and he was found a day or 2 later and autopsy showed he had just ate KFC before being killed
The killers prob saw that on news

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Marion King wrote that she hoped Timothy could come home soon so she could serve him his favorite meal, Kentucky Fried Chicken. In the late evening hours of March 22, 1977, two teenagers in a car spotted his body in a shallow ditch alongside Gill Road, about 300 feet south of Eight Mile Road in Livonia, just across the county line in Wayne County. His skateboard was placed next to his body. His clothing had been neatly pressed and washed. He had been suffocated and sexually assaulted with an object. The postmortem showed that Timothy had eaten fried chicken before he was slain.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland...y_Child_Killer