Children Of The Snow S01E01 The Hunt for Justice in America’s Coldest Case

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In the shadow of 1970s Detroit, fear gripped a community as a mysterious killer claimed the lives of children and vanished without a trace. Children of the Snow dives deep into one of America's most chilling unsolved mysteries—the Oakland County Child Killer case—unraveling the emotional impact on families, the relentless pursuit of truth, and the secrets that still haunt investigators. Through firsthand accounts, expert interviews, and gripping storytelling, this limited series confronts the darkness to expose how a decades-old tragedy continues to shape lives today.

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00:00:00All Detroiters know this story.

00:00:13These two are rolling.

00:00:15Good.

00:00:16Rolling.

00:00:18You talk to anybody on the street of a certain age,

00:00:21they know this story.

00:00:22I'm a Detroiter.

00:00:23I know this story.

00:00:25A Detroiter over there knows this story.

00:00:27A Detroiter over there knows this story.

00:00:28And we all bond over this story when we talk about it.

00:00:31Hey, you remember the Oakland County child killer?

00:00:33F*** yeah.

00:00:34Murder in Detroit suburbs is uncommon,

00:00:37but residents are panicky over the recent murders of children.

00:00:41For more than four decades...

00:00:43I just can't imagine four parents going through what they went through.

00:00:47Someone has gotten away with murdering children.

00:00:50I trusted the cops and trusted them for 30-plus years.

00:00:55Others have gotten away with a massive child abuse ring.

00:00:58Your average Joe don't come to this island and have sex with a child.

00:01:03I could rip this f***ing cabinet down.

00:01:05I could destroy this f***ing cabinet.

00:01:08Just to put the pain away.

00:01:10Make the memories go away.

00:01:11But what if some of the same people were involved?

00:01:18There were hundreds of men.

00:01:20Men in the government.

00:01:21Men with power.

00:01:22A brand new two-part investigation started by one kid who got away.

00:01:27When I was seven years old, somebody tried to abduct me.

00:01:31All the things that happened to those kids could have happened to me.

00:01:33We'll unpack shocking new details.

00:01:36I came across this cataloging of evidence, and it stopped me in my tracks.

00:01:40Where cover-ups are exposed.

00:01:42This case could have been solved three decades ago.

00:01:46In fact, this case maybe was solved three decades ago.

00:01:50And decades of silence are finally broken.

00:01:53We definitely felt that we had the Oakland County child killers.

00:01:58In the suburbs of Detroit, another frustrating search for a sex killer has been pressed for the past 16 months.

00:02:14Four children have been murdered, the last in March.

00:02:17Police say the killer has probably approached a lot of children in this area.

00:02:21The lucky ones have decided not to go with him.

00:02:23When I was seven years old, somebody tried to abduct me.

00:02:26J. Reuben Appelman was a kid in the suburbs of Detroit in the late 1970s when he encountered a stranger.

00:02:35He had sideburns, his hair was thinning, he had dark eyes, dark hair.

00:02:41This guy pulled up in a little car, and he opened the door, and he reached over, and he tried to grab my arm, and he said, get into the car.

00:02:51I just took off, and I realized that I had almost fallen victim to the Oakland County child killer.

00:02:59I could have been a victim.

00:03:01All the things that happened to those kids could have happened to me.

00:03:06The incident stuck with him for decades.

00:03:09It never really occurred to me until I was raising my own kids, the gravity of that moment for me.

00:03:18I got out of bed, checked on my kids, and I just started Googling the Oakland County child killer.

00:03:25It triggered an investigative obsession.

00:03:30In 2005, when I started digging into this case, the internet was sort of aflame.

00:03:36You could finally get online and search for everything you wanted, practically.

00:03:40I thought anybody could solve a murder case.

00:03:43You just got to bury yourself in the evidence for long enough, and you'll figure it out.

00:03:47I want to know who killed those four kids.

00:03:52I just decided I have to solve this crime somehow.

00:03:56His amateur investigation has consumed 13 years of his life.

00:04:01The deeper he dug, the more and more violent the story got.

00:04:05The Oakland County child killer case is a nightmare.

00:04:09But once you accept that, there's nothing else to do but unravel it.

00:04:14Today, Appelman and the family of one of the victims think they know what happened.

00:04:20For 30 years, the cops were sitting on what continue to be the primary suspects.

00:04:27Not only did we not catch the killer, we caught the killer and let him go kill more kids.

00:04:31I think there's absolutely a possibility there's a cover-up here.

00:04:35And longtime detective Corey Williams is determined to make the case.

00:04:40As of now, I am the longest-serving detective.

00:04:44On the case, and proud to be.

00:04:47Our goal is to solve the case and to be able to tell the victim's families after so long.

00:04:53That would be amazing.

00:04:58Sorry.

00:04:59Give me one second here.

00:05:02Phew.

00:05:04It all started on this street in Ferndale, Michigan in 1976.

00:05:10Right here is where Mark Stebbins started his journey home after visiting with his mother at the American Legion Hall.

00:05:21Mark wanted to leave because there was a war movie coming on.

00:05:27Mark is a quiet, likable kid.

00:05:29He collects toy soldiers and loves all things military.

00:05:32He wanted to grow up and go into the Marine Corps.

00:05:38He's like, that's what I want to do.

00:05:42It's a three-block walk home from the Legion.

00:05:45And it's broad daylight.

00:05:46You know, this isn't a bustling city full of strangers.

00:05:51This is a tiny little Middle America intersection.

00:05:56I left probably about an hour or so later.

00:06:02And when I got home, Mark wasn't there.

00:06:05Then my mother called me, and she asked me, where is Mark?

00:06:12I says, I don't know, Mom.

00:06:14He's not here.

00:06:15And I tried to call a few of Mark's friends.

00:06:19Nobody had seen him.

00:06:21Ten hours later, still no Mark.

00:06:25His mother, Ruth, calls the police.

00:06:28There hasn't been a kidnapping in Ferndale in ten years, they assured her.

00:06:31Mark's description goes out to the police radios.

00:06:36Just under five feet tall, red blonde hair and blue eyes.

00:06:41They launch a door-to-door search.

00:06:44No one has seen a thing.

00:06:48The body of 12-year-old Mark Stebbins, 429 East Saratoga, Ferndale,

00:06:55was found in the rear of a parking lot of an office plaza.

00:06:59I hate to use the word, but his body was dumped.

00:07:04It was on Ten Mile, about 100 yards west of Greenfield.

00:07:12He was three-quarters of a mile from home.

00:07:15And there was a wall between a shopping center and some buildings,

00:07:20and he was placed in a snowbank next to this wall.

00:07:24He was fully clothed, wearing a blue parka and blue jeans.

00:07:34The autopsy found Mark was smothered to death.

00:07:38There were rope burns on his neck, wrist, and ankles,

00:07:41and he'd been sodomized.

00:07:43So we knew this little more than just an abduction killing.

00:07:49Just a few weeks earlier,

00:07:51Lorne Doan had been promoted from patrol officer to detective.

00:07:55I was still a new detective,

00:07:58and, you know, I was learning as I was going.

00:08:00Detective Doan gets a tip from a local parole officer

00:08:05to check out a recently released prisoner,

00:08:0934-year-old Arch Sloan.

00:08:11Convicted of sodomy in Pennsylvania,

00:08:14Sloan was now living in Southfield

00:08:16and working as a tow truck driver and mechanic

00:08:19in nearby Farmington Hills.

00:08:21They took tapings of his car to get fiber evidence

00:08:25in any hairs that they had,

00:08:27and they stored it away.

00:08:29But no physical evidence ties Sloan to Mark's murder.

00:08:33After months, the police have no clues,

00:08:37no witnesses, and no suspects.

00:08:40His murder seems utterly random.

00:08:42We had no information beyond the fact

00:08:45that a child was walking down the street,

00:08:48disappeared, and then his body was found.

00:08:53The whole family fell apart at the time.

00:08:57Myself, my mother.

00:09:00Do you still think about it?

00:09:03Well, I try to put it out of my mind.

00:09:07It still hurt.

00:09:09It impacted her pretty hard,

00:09:12and she fell into bad health.

00:09:15I totally kicked myself in the butt.

00:09:22If I would have walked home with him,

00:09:25he may have made it home safe.

00:09:28Everybody wanted to solve this really bad.

00:09:31At that time, of course,

00:09:33we didn't know that this was going to blossom like it did.

00:09:43Five months after Mark's murder,

00:09:45another story was unraveling

00:09:47one hour north of Detroit in Port Huron.

00:09:51An eight-year-old boy is sexually molested so badly

00:09:54he's taken to the hospital.

00:09:57Eddie's mother calls the police.

00:10:00The man arrested is a gym teacher

00:10:02and the director of a boys' camp for troubled teens

00:10:05on an isolated island in Lake Michigan,

00:10:09North Fox Island.

00:10:10What state police learn opens a Pandora's box.

00:10:14It was a spider's web.

00:10:16And really, it was a front.

00:10:18It was a front for pedophiles,

00:10:21and it was a front for pedophiles

00:10:23to film child pornography.

00:10:26One small Michigan newspaper reporter got the tip,

00:10:30but it would take years to unravel.

00:10:32It was one of those things where

00:10:34the deeper she dug,

00:10:37the more dirt she found.

00:10:40These were bad guys.

00:10:41These were bad people.

00:10:43All of that is in the unraveling

00:10:45of the Oakland County child killer case.

00:10:47It is exactly the worst that you can imagine.

00:10:51Five hours south in Oakland County,

00:10:54the police investigating Mark's murder

00:10:56have no idea there is any connection

00:10:59to North Fox Island.

00:11:01I was not aware of that.

00:11:03I mean, I was completely tuned in

00:11:04to what was happening right here in Oakland County.

00:11:11As police in Oakland County

00:11:13continue to hunt for Mark Stebbins' killer,

00:11:16Michigan State Police in St. Clair County

00:11:19begin to uncover the grotesque goings-on

00:11:22at North Fox Island,

00:11:24the boys' camp for troubled teens.

00:11:26On that island,

00:11:27those boys would be routinely molested,

00:11:30photographed while being molested,

00:11:32and kept basically in a sort of captivity

00:11:36until their camp session was over.

00:11:39The island was owned by philanthropist

00:11:42and lifelong bachelor, Francis Sheldon.

00:11:46Francis Sheldon was from a very wealthy

00:11:50and prominent east side of Detroit family.

00:11:53And in 1959, he bought Fox Island

00:11:58and he said he was going to build

00:12:01vacation homes there.

00:12:03But instead, he turned the cabins

00:12:06and all the buildings he bought there

00:12:09into a place where he could bring kids

00:12:11and film them and molest them.

00:12:16The camp operated for two summers

00:12:19in 1975 and 76.

00:12:24Eventually, an arrest warrant goes out for Sheldon

00:12:26for two counts of sexual abuse.

00:12:29But by then, he's cleaned out his Ann Arbor home

00:12:33and fled in his private plane.

00:12:34The boys in North Fox Island

00:12:41were roughly the same age as Mark Stebbins.

00:12:45We know that the men that traveled up to Fox

00:12:48also operated in Detroit

00:12:50and throughout the suburbs surrounding Detroit.

00:12:55Now, we could say nobody made any connection

00:12:57between the abduction of Mark Stebbins

00:12:59and the North Fox Island.

00:13:00I think it's not necessarily believable.

00:13:03They all knew each other.

00:13:04They all depended on each other

00:13:05because it's a community of people

00:13:08operating to industrialize

00:13:11the molestation and photography of children.

00:13:17Police continue to investigate North Fox Island

00:13:20while the mystery in Oakland County

00:13:22is about to grow worse.

00:13:28Three nights before Christmas

00:13:30in a suburb just north of Ferndale,

00:13:34Carol Robinson and her 12-year-old daughter Jill

00:13:37get into an argument.

00:13:39I had asked her to help with dinner

00:13:42and she refused

00:13:42and said she didn't want to be here

00:13:45and it just made a snotty remark again

00:13:47and I just think I had it.

00:13:49I just said,

00:13:50well, Jill, if you don't like being here,

00:13:52why don't you just get your coat on

00:13:53and stand out in the front yard

00:13:55and think about it

00:13:56and when you feel like talking about it,

00:13:58come on back in.

00:13:59Jill packed her bag

00:14:00and put her little book in her backpack

00:14:03and rode off into the night

00:14:05to go and see her dad.

00:14:08She didn't come back in.

00:14:12Her dad, Tom, an English teacher,

00:14:15lives a few miles away in Birmingham

00:14:17but Jill never arrives

00:14:19and shortly before midnight,

00:14:21Tom calls the police.

00:14:24A family friend says they saw Jill

00:14:26pedaling northward on Woodward Avenue

00:14:28around 7.30,

00:14:30about an hour after she left home.

00:14:32Other than that,

00:14:34the police have nothing

00:14:35and like Mark Stebbins,

00:14:37Jill Robinson just seemed to have vanished.

00:14:40It's the day after Christmas.

00:14:47A motorist on I-75 near Troy

00:14:49spots something in the snow

00:14:51on the side of the road,

00:14:53the body of 6th grader Jill Robinson.

00:14:57Jill was laying on her back fully clothed

00:14:59and wearing her blue knapsack.

00:15:02There was a gunshot wound to her face.

00:15:04Unlike Mark Stebbins,

00:15:10the autopsy reveals Jill

00:15:12hadn't been sexually molested.

00:15:15She'd been shot at close range

00:15:16at the spot where her body was found.

00:15:19Some people believe this means

00:15:21she wasn't asphyxiated.

00:15:23Some people believe this means

00:15:25that she wasn't victim

00:15:27to the alleged Oakland County child killer.

00:15:29Other people,

00:15:31like retired cop Jack Kalfleisch,

00:15:35an original task force member,

00:15:37believes,

00:15:38no, she probably was asphyxiated.

00:15:41When a person is suffocated,

00:15:43there's still a certain amount

00:15:44of oxygen in the lungs.

00:15:47I believe when she was dropped,

00:15:49the pressure on the backpack

00:15:51caused her to make a moaning sound

00:15:54as the oxygen escaped.

00:15:56At that point,

00:15:57he shot her.

00:15:59To make sure she was dead.

00:16:04The autopsy also reveals

00:16:06that wherever Jill had been held

00:16:08for the past three days,

00:16:10someone had washed her clothes

00:16:11and fed her.

00:16:16Yeah, it was,

00:16:17this was a bad period.

00:16:23It's one of those things

00:16:25that never goes away.

00:16:26So I'm stuck thinking about it

00:16:31every morning and every evening.

00:16:35Both the Troy and Royal Oak police

00:16:37talked to her family and friends.

00:16:40No one knows where she'd been

00:16:42or who might have done this.

00:16:44The only lead?

00:16:46A witness report

00:16:47seeing a light blue Pontiac Le Mans

00:16:49stopped on the side of I-75

00:16:51where Jill's body was found.

00:16:54As they approached,

00:16:56the car pulled out

00:16:57from the side of the road

00:16:58and after they passed,

00:17:00they noticed the car pull back

00:17:01in to the side of the road

00:17:04on 16 and I-75.

00:17:07You talk to Jack Kalbfleisch

00:17:11and he'll tell you time and again

00:17:12that he tried to get

00:17:13this lead looked at.

00:17:14There's plenty of documentation

00:17:16that says this,

00:17:17this lead into the Le Mans

00:17:19is a credible lead.

00:17:20And so you wonder why

00:17:21it wasn't looked at

00:17:22at greater lengths.

00:17:28The day is Sunday,

00:17:30the second day of January, 1977.

00:17:34Christine Mihalich wanted to go

00:17:35to a party store

00:17:36just a few blocks

00:17:37from her home in Berkeley.

00:17:40Chris had helped my mom

00:17:41take the Christmas decorations down

00:17:43and Chris had asked

00:17:44if she could walk to 7-Eleven

00:17:46to buy a teen magazine of sorts.

00:17:48And I told her no

00:17:49because she had to cross 12 Mile

00:17:52and that's a busy street.

00:17:55And I remember saying to me,

00:17:57well, I did you a favor.

00:18:00And she's, well, you know,

00:18:01won't you do this for me?

00:18:02I said, if you go to the light

00:18:06and promise me

00:18:07you'll cross at the light,

00:18:09I said, I'll let you go.

00:18:12The store is just a few blocks

00:18:14from the house.

00:18:16Debbie figures Chris will be home

00:18:17within half an hour.

00:18:20After an hour, though,

00:18:22there's no sign of Christine.

00:18:24And I thought, well,

00:18:25maybe she ran into her dad

00:18:27and he picked her up

00:18:28and they just forgot

00:18:29to give me a call.

00:18:33It was getting dark

00:18:35and that's when I really

00:18:37became concerned.

00:18:39Debbie reports her daughter

00:18:40missing to the Berkeley police.

00:18:43They just took the information

00:18:44and they told me

00:18:46they were going to put it

00:18:47on the 11 o'clock news.

00:18:49And that always struck me

00:18:50kind of odd

00:18:51that they were so quick

00:18:53to get that out on the news.

00:18:55It never entered my mind

00:18:59really that she was kidnapped.

00:19:02You know,

00:19:02you just don't think

00:19:04in those terms.

00:19:06The police retrace

00:19:07her last known steps.

00:19:09We know that she made it

00:19:10to the 7-Eleven store

00:19:12because the clerk

00:19:13did give a statement

00:19:14that she made it there.

00:19:16And that was the last

00:19:18she was seen.

00:19:21I never connected it

00:19:22with Jill.

00:19:23And never with Mark.

00:19:28I was frantic,

00:19:29but she was going to show up.

00:19:36But after the first 24 hours,

00:19:40then, you know,

00:19:43your imagination

00:19:43just goes wild

00:19:45and then you're obviously

00:19:46thinking of, you know,

00:19:49something tragic has happened.

00:19:50The police are thinking

00:19:52the same thing.

00:19:54Christine was the third child

00:19:55to go missing

00:19:56in Oakland County

00:19:57in almost 11 months.

00:19:59And the first two

00:20:00were murdered.

00:20:01My boss and I,

00:20:03we started thinking

00:20:05maybe we've got

00:20:06a serial killer.

00:20:12Southfield police

00:20:13form a task force,

00:20:15including all local forces

00:20:17around Oakland County.

00:20:18Lieutenant Jack Kolfleisch

00:20:23from the Birmingham Police

00:20:24was at that first meeting.

00:20:27And that was the start

00:20:28of my investigating

00:20:29the child killings.

00:20:31The task force was

00:20:3350 to 60 men

00:20:34from various departments

00:20:36who volunteered

00:20:37their people

00:20:37to come over,

00:20:39whether they were

00:20:40one of the victim cities

00:20:42or not.

00:20:43They said,

00:20:44let's get this person.

00:20:45The public

00:20:47is now taking notice.

00:20:49If your youngsters

00:20:50may have been here,

00:20:51may have seen something,

00:20:53if they may have been

00:20:54approached by a stranger,

00:20:55ask them about it.

00:20:56We had a number

00:20:57that you could call

00:20:58to the task force

00:21:00and we had

00:21:01several people

00:21:02that would write out

00:21:03the tips

00:21:04and we'd go from there.

00:21:06Nineteen days

00:21:10after she went missing,

00:21:12about seven miles

00:21:13from Berkeley,

00:21:14on a dead-end street

00:21:15in Franklin Village,

00:21:17a mailman

00:21:18spot something

00:21:19in the ditch.

00:21:20You saw something red

00:21:21sticking out of the snow.

00:21:23It turned out

00:21:24it was Christine's hand.

00:21:26When I went to the crime scene,

00:21:28the body was still

00:21:29at the side of the road.

00:21:31She was laying

00:21:32partially covered

00:21:34in snow,

00:21:36her arms sticking out

00:21:38and, you know,

00:21:40obviously dead.

00:21:46It's 1977

00:21:47and Michigan police

00:21:49continue investigating

00:21:51a child abuse ring

00:21:52which operated

00:21:53from an isolated island

00:21:55in Lake Michigan.

00:21:58Almost 300 miles south,

00:22:00a third child

00:22:01has been murdered

00:22:02and placed in the snow

00:22:03in suburban Detroit.

00:22:08There was a knock

00:22:09at the door

00:22:10and there was law enforcement

00:22:13and a minister

00:22:15and I knew right then

00:22:16that it was,

00:22:19you know,

00:22:20when it happened.

00:22:25After 19 agonizing days,

00:22:2812-year-old Christine

00:22:29Mihalik of Royal Oak

00:22:30is now the third child

00:22:32to be abducted,

00:22:33murdered,

00:22:34and dumped in the snow

00:22:35at the side of the road.

00:22:39Christine's autopsy

00:22:40reveals similarities

00:22:42to those of Jill Robinson

00:22:43and Mark Stebbins.

00:22:45Like Jill,

00:22:46she had not been

00:22:47sexually assaulted,

00:22:49but like Mark,

00:22:50she was suffocated.

00:22:52All were fully clothed,

00:22:54washed,

00:22:54well fed,

00:22:55and all three killed

00:22:56hours before they were

00:22:58dumped in the snow.

00:23:00And that's when we said,

00:23:01we are full scale.

00:23:03We're talking about

00:23:04the same person

00:23:05or persons.

00:23:06After the abduction

00:23:11of Christine Mihalik,

00:23:14which was victim number three,

00:23:17the papers started

00:23:18filling up with articles

00:23:19about these kids.

00:23:21It started to become

00:23:22on the radar of parents

00:23:23and school teachers

00:23:24that were probably looking

00:23:27for a serial killer

00:23:28or killers

00:23:28or some entity.

00:23:31Parents in neighborhoods

00:23:32where the victims lived

00:23:33are taking special precautions.

00:23:35I know my kids

00:23:36aren't playing out.

00:23:38They're with me

00:23:39all the time.

00:23:41People didn't even

00:23:42let their children

00:23:42go in the backyard

00:23:43without a parent

00:23:44being there.

00:23:46The very things

00:23:47you had moved

00:23:47to escape

00:23:48when you came

00:23:49from Detroit

00:23:50had landed there.

00:23:54By now,

00:23:55hundreds of tips

00:23:56are pouring

00:23:57into the fledgling

00:23:58task force.

00:23:59One stands out.

00:24:02Tip number 370.

00:24:04Thomas Waldron

00:24:05from the Flint

00:24:06Police Department

00:24:07called my boss

00:24:09in Southfield

00:24:10and relayed to him

00:24:12that they had

00:24:13a suspect

00:24:13in custody

00:24:15for one of their cases

00:24:16that said

00:24:18he knew

00:24:19who the Oakland County

00:24:20child killer was.

00:24:22That suspect

00:24:23is 27-year-old

00:24:25Gregory Green,

00:24:26a pedophile

00:24:27arrested for molesting

00:24:28a young boy

00:24:29in Flint, Michigan.

00:24:30And it was obvious

00:24:32this is what

00:24:33we were looking for.

00:24:34So my boss

00:24:35and I

00:24:35went up there.

00:24:37Detective Doan

00:24:38has never spoken

00:24:39publicly

00:24:40about what happened.

00:24:42Under questioning,

00:24:44Green tells Doan

00:24:45that his friend

00:24:46and frequent

00:24:46partner in crime

00:24:47killed the first victim,

00:24:49Mark Stevins.

00:24:51He said it was

00:24:52Christopher Bush.

00:24:5325-year-old Christopher Bush

00:24:56lives in Alma, Michigan

00:24:58where he runs a restaurant,

00:25:00The Scotsman.

00:25:01He and Green

00:25:02are accused

00:25:03of forcing boys

00:25:03into sex acts

00:25:04and lewd photography.

00:25:07Apart from these charges,

00:25:08Bush has no previous record.

00:25:11His father,

00:25:12H. Lee Bush,

00:25:13is a highly placed

00:25:14General Motors executive.

00:25:15We went up to Alma

00:25:18where he was staying

00:25:20and we arrested him.

00:25:21He wanted to go back

00:25:22and get a toothbrush

00:25:24and we thought

00:25:26maybe this would

00:25:27get us in his house

00:25:28and see what was there

00:25:30and it did.

00:25:31He said,

00:25:32I got nothing to hide,

00:25:33you can go through it.

00:25:35What they find

00:25:35is chilling.

00:25:37We found a suitcase

00:25:38full of,

00:25:39I think it was

00:25:41magazines

00:25:41or cutouts

00:25:43of young kids.

00:25:45They also find

00:25:46child porn films

00:25:47on 8-millimeter reels,

00:25:50ropes and ligatures

00:25:50and two shotguns.

00:25:53He admitted

00:25:54being a pedophile

00:25:56to picking up kids

00:25:58and two of them

00:25:59were definitely

00:26:00in the areas

00:26:02of two of our kids

00:26:03that were abducted

00:26:05and killed.

00:26:06One being Mark Stebbins

00:26:07at 9 in Woodward

00:26:08and the other

00:26:10Christine Mihalik

00:26:11at the 7-Eleven.

00:26:14Bush didn't hold back

00:26:15about his fantasies.

00:26:17He was obsessed

00:26:18with boys.

00:26:19It sounded like

00:26:20he and Green

00:26:21had worked together

00:26:23and talked about

00:26:25abducting young boys

00:26:27and how they would

00:26:28keep them

00:26:29during the day.

00:26:30One would work days

00:26:31and the other

00:26:32would work nights

00:26:32and then they'd always

00:26:33have somebody there.

00:26:37It's damning.

00:26:39Detective Doan

00:26:39asks Bush

00:26:40to take a polygraph.

00:26:41He says,

00:26:43I got nothing

00:26:43to hide

00:26:44and I want

00:26:45to take it.

00:26:46The Oakland County

00:26:47Assistant Chief Prosecutor

00:26:49flies up to Flint

00:26:50to witness

00:26:51the polygraph.

00:26:53They have

00:26:54a glass window

00:26:56that you can see in

00:26:58but they can't see out

00:26:59and you could

00:27:01stand there

00:27:02and listen

00:27:02to the polygraph.

00:27:06Bush denies

00:27:07any knowledge

00:27:08or involvement

00:27:09in the killings.

00:27:11The examiner

00:27:12shocks the police

00:27:13and says Bush

00:27:14was being truthful.

00:27:16We thought for sure

00:27:18he would flunk it

00:27:19or confess

00:27:20and charges

00:27:21would be

00:27:22made against him.

00:27:24We were all

00:27:25kind of flabbergasted

00:27:26when he passed

00:27:27the polygraph

00:27:28because we definitely

00:27:30felt that

00:27:31we had

00:27:32the Oakland County

00:27:33child killers.

00:27:35Bush still faces

00:27:36criminal sexual

00:27:37conduct charges

00:27:38but with no

00:27:39previous record

00:27:40his family

00:27:41postponed

00:27:42and Bush

00:27:43is set free.

00:27:45You know

00:27:45the bottom line

00:27:46was

00:27:47look

00:27:48he was

00:27:48a suspect

00:27:49and we

00:27:51did polygraph

00:27:52him

00:27:52and he passed

00:27:54the polygraph

00:27:55and polygraphs

00:27:56back in the day

00:27:57were the be all

00:27:58and end all.

00:28:00Polygraph results

00:28:01weren't admissible

00:28:01in court

00:28:02but back then

00:28:03the police

00:28:04used them

00:28:04as a key tool

00:28:05in eliminating

00:28:06potential suspects.

00:28:07Green also

00:28:09passes the polygraph

00:28:10but isn't from

00:28:11a wealthy family

00:28:12and can't

00:28:13post bond

00:28:13and remains

00:28:14in custody.

00:28:16The two

00:28:17are no longer

00:28:18suspects.

00:28:19Roughly a week

00:28:20after Christopher

00:28:21Bush is released

00:28:22on bond

00:28:22from the criminal

00:28:23sexual conduct

00:28:23charges

00:28:24Timothy King

00:28:25goes missing

00:28:25and I don't

00:28:27find that

00:28:28to be coincidental.

00:28:29authorities fear

00:28:33Timmy

00:28:34has been kidnapped

00:28:35by a psychotic

00:28:36who has killed

00:28:37several youngsters

00:28:38in the last year.

00:28:40Seven days

00:28:41after the cop's

00:28:42most promising

00:28:42suspect

00:28:43Christopher Bush

00:28:44was released

00:28:45from custody

00:28:4611 year old

00:28:48Tim King

00:28:48borrows 30 cents

00:28:50from his sister

00:28:50to buy a candy bar

00:28:52at the pharmacy

00:28:53a few blocks away.

00:28:54So Timothy King

00:28:57was taken

00:28:58from this parking lot.

00:29:02He had gone

00:29:03to the pharmacy

00:29:04and he'd come

00:29:05out the back.

00:29:08Tim would have

00:29:08walked here

00:29:09off and on

00:29:09his whole childhood

00:29:11just like the

00:29:12other kids

00:29:12just like I would

00:29:13have.

00:29:14We went up

00:29:15to Peabody's

00:29:16and had dinner.

00:29:17Marion and I

00:29:17got home

00:29:18about 8.30

00:29:18or 9

00:29:19and Tim

00:29:20was not here.

00:29:22I came home

00:29:22and there were

00:29:22police cars

00:29:23in the driveway

00:29:23and mom ran out

00:29:25and said

00:29:25have you seen

00:29:26Tim?

00:29:26And I said

00:29:26well what do you

00:29:27mean?

00:29:28And she said

00:29:28he's missing.

00:29:30And then I

00:29:31grabbed Tim's

00:29:31baseball bat

00:29:32and just ran

00:29:33around looking

00:29:33for him

00:29:33because we knew

00:29:34this had to be

00:29:35something bad.

00:29:38Tim has been

00:29:39missing only a few

00:29:39hours

00:29:40but this time

00:29:41the police

00:29:42know to act

00:29:43immediately.

00:29:44Investigators

00:29:45will continue

00:29:45to work

00:29:45into the night

00:29:46hoping to find

00:29:47a lead

00:29:48on Timothy

00:29:48King's

00:29:49whereabouts.

00:29:51The possibility

00:29:52of catching

00:29:53the person

00:29:53with Timothy

00:29:55still alive

00:29:56and in the

00:29:56trunk of a car

00:29:57being transported

00:29:58was very much

00:30:00the hope.

00:30:01Every available

00:30:01police officer

00:30:02in Birmingham

00:30:03was pressed

00:30:03into the search

00:30:04for Timothy

00:30:04King

00:30:05hoping

00:30:06praying

00:30:06that the

00:30:07youngster

00:30:07would be found

00:30:08alive.

00:30:08There were

00:30:09helicopters

00:30:10all over

00:30:11Oakland County

00:30:12searching

00:30:13for Tim.

00:30:15Everywhere you

00:30:16went there

00:30:16was lockdown.

00:30:17Police cars

00:30:17were in force

00:30:18en masse

00:30:19everywhere

00:30:20checking cars

00:30:21driving around.

00:30:23The cities

00:30:24went bonkers.

00:30:28Playgrounds

00:30:29emptied.

00:30:30Doors locked.

00:30:31Panic

00:30:32settles in.

00:30:33Dear newsman,

00:30:35I hope that you

00:30:35find the unknown

00:30:36killer that keeps

00:30:37killing every

00:30:37little kid.

00:30:39Have good luck.

00:30:39I'm a nine-year-old

00:30:40girl from Tecumseh,

00:30:41Michigan.

00:30:42I'm a little girl

00:30:43that has nightmares

00:30:44at night when I

00:30:44try to go to sleep.

00:30:46The story goes

00:30:47national.

00:30:48The Michigan State

00:30:49Police take charge

00:30:50of the task force

00:30:50into what is now

00:30:51being called

00:30:52the Oakland County

00:30:54Child Killer.

00:30:58Two days later,

00:31:00police get their

00:31:00first lead.

00:31:02Someone thinks

00:31:02they've caught a

00:31:03glimpse of the

00:31:04killer.

00:31:04A witness

00:31:06said that she

00:31:07had seen Tim

00:31:08talking to

00:31:09a man

00:31:10and he was

00:31:12standing next

00:31:13to a blue

00:31:13gremlin.

00:31:1580 detectives

00:31:16working on each

00:31:17ship,

00:31:17all of them

00:31:18looking for

00:31:19this man.

00:31:22With that flyer

00:31:23everywhere,

00:31:25everybody knew

00:31:26about the Oakland

00:31:27County Child

00:31:28Killer.

00:31:28It was on the

00:31:29news,

00:31:30it was on the

00:31:30radio,

00:31:31it was in the

00:31:32papers constantly.

00:31:37All hell broke

00:31:38loose.

00:31:39Every blue

00:31:40gremlin in this

00:31:41county and

00:31:42surrounding counties

00:31:42was a suspect.

00:31:44And police were

00:31:46reluctant to,

00:31:47you know,

00:31:48have a stop

00:31:49and you can't

00:31:50just do it on

00:31:51suspicion,

00:31:51you gotta have

00:31:52probable cause.

00:31:53I said,

00:31:54forget it,

00:31:54I'll take the

00:31:55heat.

00:31:55You stop the

00:31:56gremlins when

00:31:56you see them.

00:31:59Nobody complained.

00:32:00Every gremlin

00:32:01understood.

00:32:02The blue

00:32:02gremlin became

00:32:03the iconic

00:32:04figure of this

00:32:05case.

00:32:06Everybody in

00:32:07the city of

00:32:08Detroit was

00:32:08looking for a

00:32:09blue gremlin.

00:32:14In desperation,

00:32:16Marianne and

00:32:16Barry pleaded

00:32:17with their

00:32:18son's kidnapper.

00:32:19She had said

00:32:20one of his

00:32:21favorite meals

00:32:21was Kentucky

00:32:22fried chicken

00:32:22and she would

00:32:23get that for

00:32:23him when he

00:32:24came home.

00:32:25We love you,

00:32:26Tim.

00:32:26God bless you.

00:32:27Stay tough.

00:32:28Say your prayers

00:32:29and we're with

00:32:29you, buddy.

00:32:30And Kathy and

00:32:31Chris and Mark

00:32:32say to treat

00:32:32him just like

00:32:33you would a

00:32:33brother.

00:32:35And we all

00:32:36want him back

00:32:37and please

00:32:39send him.

00:32:41Hey, Dad.

00:32:43Hi, gang.

00:32:44Welcome.

00:32:45Hey, how are

00:32:45you?

00:32:48This is the

00:32:48first time Tim's

00:32:49siblings have

00:32:50talked together

00:32:51on camera.

00:32:52They tried to

00:32:53hide things from

00:32:53us.

00:32:53They wouldn't

00:32:54let us watch

00:32:54TV.

00:32:55They hid the

00:32:56papers we have

00:32:57from that

00:32:57time.

00:32:58As much

00:32:58as they

00:32:58tried to

00:32:59take our

00:33:00mind off

00:33:00of things

00:33:01and cheer

00:33:01us up,

00:33:02you could

00:33:02tell deep

00:33:03in their

00:33:04face that

00:33:04it was

00:33:05bleak.

00:33:07I didn't

00:33:07think he

00:33:10was ever

00:33:10going to

00:33:10come back

00:33:11because of

00:33:11that other,

00:33:12the other

00:33:13kids that

00:33:13were missing.

00:33:15Barry was

00:33:16right.

00:33:17After nearly

00:33:17a week of

00:33:18waiting,

00:33:19hoping against

00:33:20hope,

00:33:20the parents

00:33:21of 11-year-old

00:33:22Timothy King

00:33:22of Birmingham

00:33:23were today

00:33:24confronted with

00:33:25their worst

00:33:25fears.

00:33:27I was in

00:33:28bed with

00:33:28the radio

00:33:29on and

00:33:31the announcement

00:33:32came that

00:33:32they'd found a

00:33:33boy's body

00:33:33in Livonia

00:33:34and I was

00:33:3599% sure

00:33:36it was Tim.

00:33:38I drove

00:33:40down there

00:33:40and there was

00:33:42nothing more

00:33:42we could do

00:33:43except possibly

00:33:44identify Tim.

00:33:46I still feel

00:33:47the most important

00:33:48aspect is the

00:33:49investigation and

00:33:50get this animal

00:33:51off the street.

00:33:53It's heavy.

00:33:54It's the worst

00:33:55job you got.

00:33:57The body of

00:33:5711-year-old

00:33:58Timothy King

00:33:59was found last

00:34:00night.

00:34:00He'd been

00:34:01suffocated and

00:34:02sexually molested.

00:34:03Like the first

00:34:04victim, Mark

00:34:05Stebbins,

00:34:06Tim's wrist

00:34:06showed evidence

00:34:07of being bound

00:34:08and like all

00:34:09three victims,

00:34:11his body was

00:34:11described as

00:34:12being meticulously

00:34:13cleaned.

00:34:15The medical

00:34:16examiner said

00:34:17that a compound

00:34:18called phylohex

00:34:19was found

00:34:20on the body.

00:34:21It's a

00:34:21cleaning solution

00:34:22that was used

00:34:23in the medical

00:34:23profession.

00:34:25Are we looking

00:34:26for somebody

00:34:27in the medical

00:34:27profession?

00:34:28Are we looking

00:34:29for somebody

00:34:30that has a skin

00:34:30disorder and

00:34:31uses that soap?

00:34:33The autopsy

00:34:35finds about

00:34:35six hours before

00:34:36his body was

00:34:37discovered,

00:34:38Tim had eaten

00:34:39his favorite

00:34:40meal,

00:34:41fried chicken.

00:34:43Tim was kidnapped,

00:34:44sexually abused,

00:34:45and suffocated.

00:34:46I can't think of

00:34:49a more hideous

00:34:50death.

00:34:51And I've always

00:34:52believed that

00:34:53Tim knew what

00:34:53was going to

00:34:54happen because

00:34:54of what we

00:34:55told him

00:34:55about not

00:34:58getting in

00:34:58cars.

00:34:59there was no

00:35:03indication that

00:35:04our victims

00:35:04fought back.

00:35:06And I have

00:35:08wondered if

00:35:08they were

00:35:09bathed thinking

00:35:10they were

00:35:10going to be

00:35:11returned home

00:35:12wrapped in

00:35:13a large

00:35:14towel and

00:35:16then from

00:35:17behind were

00:35:18suffocated.

00:35:21Unlike the

00:35:22other three

00:35:22victims,

00:35:23the killer

00:35:24dumped Tim's

00:35:25body in

00:35:25neighboring Wayne

00:35:26County.

00:35:27This is

00:35:28Gill Road.

00:35:29This is

00:35:30just over the

00:35:31border to

00:35:32Livonia,

00:35:33about 40

00:35:33minutes from

00:35:34where Tim was

00:35:34abducted.

00:35:36And it's

00:35:37interesting that

00:35:38he was placed

00:35:39here because

00:35:40it's just over

00:35:41the border of

00:35:42not just a

00:35:42new city but

00:35:43a new county.

00:35:456.30 the

00:35:46evening he was

00:35:47dropped, it

00:35:47was on the

00:35:48news that

00:35:49Wayne County

00:35:50was going to

00:35:51join Oakland

00:35:52County in

00:35:53car stops

00:35:54starting with

00:35:56their midnight

00:35:56shift and

00:35:57he was dropped

00:35:58at approximately

00:35:5910.30.

00:36:00What does

00:36:01that say to

00:36:01you?

00:36:02I'm saying

00:36:03that somebody

00:36:04watched the

00:36:05news, the

00:36:06task force

00:36:06was starting

00:36:07to breathe

00:36:08on their

00:36:08necks and

00:36:09they got

00:36:09rid of

00:36:10them.

00:36:11The task

00:36:12force is

00:36:12now convinced

00:36:13it is one

00:36:14killer abducting

00:36:15children in

00:36:16the same

00:36:16area along

00:36:18the Woodward

00:36:18corridor between

00:36:19Ferndale and

00:36:20Birmingham,

00:36:21picking his

00:36:22victims at

00:36:23random.

00:36:24Police here

00:36:25at the

00:36:25command center

00:36:25say the

00:36:26killer is

00:36:26attracted to

00:36:27children between

00:36:2810 and 12

00:36:28years old,

00:36:29that he

00:36:30sexually assaults

00:36:31the boys but

00:36:31not the girls.

00:36:33The only

00:36:33dissimilarity was

00:36:35the fact that we

00:36:36had two boys and

00:36:37two girls.

00:36:38The way the

00:36:39crimes were

00:36:39committed, the

00:36:40way the kids

00:36:41were abducted in

00:36:42plain sight, the

00:36:43fact that they

00:36:44were held for a

00:36:45period of days, the

00:36:46fact that their

00:36:47bodies came back

00:36:48clean, they were

00:36:51well fed, they

00:36:53knew they were all

00:36:54connected for those

00:36:55reasons.

00:36:57The police also

00:36:59know that in the

00:36:591970s, before the

00:37:01internet, pedophiles

00:37:03ran in groups.

00:37:05There was

00:37:06hundreds of

00:37:06these pedophile

00:37:07rings and they

00:37:08all knew each

00:37:09other.

00:37:09They didn't have

00:37:10the luxury of

00:37:11cell phones and

00:37:12computers to

00:37:14communicate with

00:37:14each other, but

00:37:15they knew where to

00:37:16meet and if they

00:37:17traveled, they knew

00:37:18how to connect with

00:37:19pedophiles in

00:37:19different cities.

00:37:20And so the

00:37:21rings were just

00:37:22unbelievably organized.

00:37:28There was an

00:37:28atmosphere of fear.

00:37:32The wanted posters

00:37:33for the alleged

00:37:34Oakland County

00:37:35child killer were

00:37:36everywhere.

00:37:37They were scotch

00:37:37taped to light

00:37:38posts, they were

00:37:39plastered in the

00:37:40windows of the

00:37:40dry cleaning stores.

00:37:42Every kid was

00:37:43terrified.

00:37:44It was what we

00:37:45were told to be.

00:37:49Thousands of

00:37:57people have been

00:37:57reporting suspicious

00:37:58behavior.

00:37:59Police lines have

00:38:00been jammed for

00:38:01days.

00:38:02Callers have been

00:38:03turning in their

00:38:03priests, their

00:38:04barbers, their

00:38:05children's teachers,

00:38:06their ex-husbands.

00:38:15Here's this all

00:38:17American family

00:38:18walking into a

00:38:20Catholic church to

00:38:21bury Tim and

00:38:24then a little

00:38:24casket.

00:38:26I mean, it's

00:38:27just unbelievably

00:38:28heart-wrenching.

00:38:35I haven't been to

00:38:36church in 35,

00:38:3739 years.

00:38:40And none of my

00:38:42family goes to

00:38:43church anymore.

00:38:44Why don't you go

00:38:45to church anymore?

00:38:46I made a deal

00:38:47with God and he

00:38:48didn't live up to

00:38:48it.

00:38:50When did you

00:38:51make that deal

00:38:52with God?

00:38:53When Tim was

00:38:53missing.

00:38:55Can you tell me

00:38:56about what they

00:38:56did?

00:38:56I don't want

00:38:57to.

00:39:04It's 8.45 a.m.

00:39:06on 6.14.

00:39:0777.

00:39:07Linda McLean,

00:39:08MC Allen.

00:39:09In the days and

00:39:10weeks that follow,

00:39:11an army of cops

00:39:12from 12 different

00:39:13agencies work day

00:39:15in, day out,

00:39:17volunteer their

00:39:17time, sift through

00:39:19almost 20,000 tips.

00:39:22After almost a year,

00:39:24detectives clear

00:39:257,400 suspects,

00:39:2779 of them through

00:39:29polygraph tests,

00:39:30track some 3,000 blue

00:39:32gremlins, screen scores

00:39:34of child pornography

00:39:35films, and review files

00:39:37on more than 10,000

00:39:39known sex deviants.

00:39:40Do you have reason

00:39:42to believe that you

00:39:43will catch him?

00:39:43After all this time,

00:39:44doesn't it make it

00:39:45more difficult to

00:39:46catch him?

00:39:46Oh, I think it makes

00:39:47it more difficult the

00:39:48longer it goes, but

00:39:50every investigator here

00:39:52is confident in his

00:39:52own mind that there

00:39:53will be an

00:39:55apprehension.

00:39:58He was wrong.

00:40:00A year after the

00:40:01fourth victim, Tim

00:40:02King, went missing,

00:40:03the largest task force

00:40:05in U.S. history,

00:40:07shuts down.

00:40:08We didn't have any

00:40:10viable suspects.

00:40:11We didn't have money.

00:40:13We didn't have anything.

00:40:15I think every member

00:40:17of that task force

00:40:18that went back,

00:40:20that case was with

00:40:21them till the day

00:40:22at least they retired.

00:40:27The case languishes

00:40:29in a black hole

00:40:30for years.

00:40:30The police never

00:40:33phoned to say

00:40:34that they had

00:40:35suspects that they

00:40:36were working on

00:40:37and persons of

00:40:38interest.

00:40:40There was not

00:40:41that dialogue there.

00:40:42None.

00:40:43What would you

00:40:44think when you

00:40:46go to bed at night,

00:40:47your daughter was

00:40:49with someone for

00:40:5019 days.

00:40:53You have that

00:40:54thought in your

00:40:54head, 24 hours,

00:40:567 days, 365.

00:40:59It doesn't leave.

00:41:00It's a dark,

00:41:04dark world you enter

00:41:06when you enter the

00:41:07case of the Oakland

00:41:07County child killer

00:41:08because you know

00:41:10there's something

00:41:10bigger out there

00:41:11that hasn't been

00:41:12finished yet.

00:41:15I looked through

00:41:16hundreds of articles

00:41:17when I first dug

00:41:19into this case

00:41:19because it was the

00:41:21easiest stuff to

00:41:21access.

00:41:22And most of the

00:41:24articles were

00:41:25about no leads.

00:41:26No leads,

00:41:27no leads,

00:41:28no leads.

00:41:28No suspects,

00:41:29no suspects,

00:41:30no suspects.

00:41:31But occasionally

00:41:32I would also stumble

00:41:35onto an article

00:41:36about Fox Island.

00:41:38North Fox Island

00:41:39in Lake Michigan,

00:41:40owned by

00:41:41millionaire Frank

00:41:42Sheldon.

00:41:43Four months

00:41:44after Mark

00:41:44Stebbins' murder,

00:41:45the island,

00:41:46set up as a

00:41:47boys' camp,

00:41:48was exposed

00:41:49as a haven

00:41:49where pedophiles

00:41:51from all over

00:41:51Michigan molested

00:41:52young boys,

00:41:54filmed it,

00:41:55and sold the

00:41:55films worldwide.

00:41:56shortly after

00:41:58the Stebbins' murder,

00:41:59Fox Island

00:41:59gets broken up,

00:42:01and there really

00:42:02wasn't much made

00:42:03of what was going

00:42:04on up north

00:42:05in the big papers.

00:42:08But then I found

00:42:09other articles.

00:42:10Little buried lines

00:42:12would mention

00:42:14that investigators

00:42:15up north

00:42:16are looking into

00:42:17the possibility

00:42:18that the Oakland

00:42:19County child killings

00:42:21may have been

00:42:22related to the

00:42:24pornography mill

00:42:25on North Fox Island.

00:42:29Here's a smoking gun

00:42:30for f***'s sake.

00:42:31It's a smoking gun

00:42:32if there ever

00:42:32was one.

00:42:33You want to know

00:42:34what's really

00:42:34happening tonight?

00:42:35It's a series of

00:42:36unanswered,

00:42:36terrifying questions.

00:42:38And they are

00:42:38who murdered

00:42:39Timmy King?

00:42:40Who strangled

00:42:41Christine Mahalik?

00:42:42Who shot

00:42:43Jill Robinson

00:42:44in the face

00:42:44ending her young life?

00:42:46Who kidnapped

00:42:47Mark Stebbins

00:42:48and then strangled him

00:42:49after sexually

00:42:49assaulting

00:42:50that Ferndale boy?

00:42:51The children

00:42:51of Oakland County

00:42:52have been warned.

00:42:53Stay away

00:42:54from strangers.

00:42:55The killer

00:42:55could strike again.

00:43:02In 2005,

00:43:04Jason Appelman's

00:43:05obsession

00:43:05with solving

00:43:06the Oakland County

00:43:07child killer case

00:43:08went into overdrive.

00:43:10When I really

00:43:11committed to

00:43:12the investigation,

00:43:13I knew that

00:43:14I had to go

00:43:15back to Detroit.

00:43:17I'd been gone

00:43:18for about 15 years.

00:43:19I knew I had

00:43:20to get really

00:43:21deep into it

00:43:22by talking

00:43:23to the people

00:43:23that were touched

00:43:24by the case

00:43:24walking those streets

00:43:27where the kids

00:43:28were abducted.

00:43:30A year later,

00:43:31one of the victim's

00:43:32family members

00:43:33hears him talking

00:43:34about the case

00:43:35on the radio.

00:43:36It's one of the many

00:43:38strange coincidences

00:43:39in this case.

00:43:41Appelman remembers

00:43:42the composite sketches

00:43:43posted around

00:43:44his neighborhood.

00:43:44but during this time

00:43:46when I was

00:43:47verging on eight,

00:43:49somebody tried

00:43:50to abduct me.

00:43:51I was listening

00:43:51to NPR

00:43:52and I heard

00:43:54the persons

00:43:56talk about how

00:43:57my next guest

00:43:59had a near brush

00:44:00with an

00:44:02abductor

00:44:02during a time

00:44:04when a serial

00:44:05killer was running

00:44:06loose in Oakland

00:44:06County, Michigan.

00:44:07Kathy is the

00:44:09older sister

00:44:09of the fourth

00:44:10victim,

00:44:11Tim King.

00:44:12Kathy gave

00:44:13her brother

00:44:13the 30 cents

00:44:14to buy candy

00:44:15at the store

00:44:16where he disappeared.

00:44:18She's now a lawyer

00:44:19and living in Chicago.

00:44:21She and her family

00:44:22have spent decades

00:44:23searching for answers.

00:44:26Kathy actually

00:44:27reached out to me

00:44:28which was a stroke

00:44:29of luck

00:44:30or divine intervention

00:44:31or something.

00:44:32she said

00:44:34I'd like to help

00:44:36you solve

00:44:36this crime somehow.

00:44:38And I just said

00:44:39you're not going

00:44:40to get anywhere

00:44:41in Detroit.

00:44:42You better stop

00:44:43in Chicago

00:44:44and see

00:44:45what I've got.

00:44:47She hands him

00:44:48more than

00:44:483,000 documents

00:44:50her father Barry

00:44:51gathered through

00:44:52the Freedom of

00:44:52Information Act.

00:44:54The documents

00:44:55include FBI

00:44:56transcripts

00:44:57of statements,

00:44:58state police

00:44:59transcripts

00:45:00of statements,

00:45:01daily logs

00:45:02and autopsies

00:45:04and crime scene

00:45:05reports.

00:45:06There is so much

00:45:07information

00:45:08that we didn't know

00:45:0930 years ago

00:45:11that we know now.

00:45:13The cops knew it

00:45:1430 years ago

00:45:15but we didn't know it.

00:45:19I noticed that

00:45:20one of the

00:45:21investigators

00:45:22Detective Corey Williams

00:45:25had an active

00:45:26presence in the case.

00:45:29A presence

00:45:30that goes back

00:45:3040 years.

00:45:32Well I grew up

00:45:33in Berkeley

00:45:34in a law

00:45:35enforcement family

00:45:36and my dad

00:45:37was a detective

00:45:37in the 50s,

00:45:3960s and 70s

00:45:40in Berkeley

00:45:40and his best

00:45:42friend was a man

00:45:43named Bob Bell

00:45:44and Bob had a

00:45:46daughter and then

00:45:46a granddaughter

00:45:47named Christine

00:45:48Mihalik.

00:45:49In January

00:45:501977, 10-year-old

00:45:52Christine Mihalik

00:45:53became the third

00:45:54victim of the

00:45:55Oakland County

00:45:56child killer.

00:45:57I was 15.

00:46:01She was last

00:46:02seen at the

00:46:027-Eleven that was

00:46:03right down the street

00:46:04from my house

00:46:05in the bowling alley.

00:46:06I used to bowl

00:46:06there as a kid.

00:46:09The night that

00:46:11Christine was

00:46:12abducted, Bob Bell

00:46:14called my dad

00:46:15at home and I was

00:46:16the one that actually

00:46:17answered the phone.

00:46:17So I put my dad

00:46:19on the phone

00:46:20in the kitchen

00:46:20and he said,

00:46:22my granddaughter's

00:46:22missing, Lee.

00:46:23What do we do?

00:46:25A 10-year-old girl

00:46:26missing 18 days

00:46:27found lying in a

00:46:28snowbank, suffocated.

00:46:31It was horrible.

00:46:33Life changed

00:46:34in the suburbs

00:46:34for kids.

00:46:37Officers are still

00:46:38convinced that

00:46:39someone, somewhere

00:46:40knows something

00:46:41that will lead

00:46:42them to a sick,

00:46:43sick individual.

00:46:46Fast forward

00:46:4730 years.

00:46:48In 2005,

00:46:50Williams,

00:46:50following in his

00:46:51father's footsteps,

00:46:52is now a detective

00:46:53working for the

00:46:54Livonia Police

00:46:55in Wayne County.

00:46:57While working

00:46:57on an unrelated

00:46:58case,

00:46:59Detective Williams

00:47:00reads a transcript

00:47:01of a suspect

00:47:02named Richard Lawson,

00:47:04a known pedophile

00:47:05from Detroit.

00:47:06Buried in that

00:47:07report are

00:47:07eight tiny words

00:47:08that changed

00:47:09the course

00:47:10of Williams'

00:47:10career.

00:47:12When Lawson

00:47:13was arrested,

00:47:14he made a statement

00:47:14to the Dormont

00:47:15detectives.

00:47:16I know who did

00:47:17the Michigan

00:47:17snow killings.

00:47:19Well, that didn't

00:47:20mean anything

00:47:20to them.

00:47:21But when I read

00:47:22it in the reports

00:47:23they faxed to me,

00:47:24it meant everything

00:47:25to me.

00:47:26I knew it meant

00:47:27the Oakland County

00:47:28child killings.

00:47:29A case he knew

00:47:31all too well

00:47:31growing up

00:47:32in Oakland County.

00:47:34It's June 13,

00:47:362005,

00:47:37Monday evening.

00:47:39I'm in the

00:47:40Tech Bureau

00:47:41interview room

00:47:42at the Livonia

00:47:42Police Department

00:47:43with Richard

00:47:45McCrae Lawson.

00:47:47I said,

00:47:48I read the

00:47:49statement,

00:47:49Richard,

00:47:50where you actually

00:47:51said,

00:47:52I know who did

00:47:52the snow killings.

00:47:54He said,

00:47:54that's not what

00:47:55I said.

00:47:56I said,

00:47:56I think I might

00:47:57know who was

00:47:58involved.

00:47:59Detective Williams

00:48:00learns that in

00:48:01the 70s,

00:48:02Lawson was actually

00:48:03helping the police

00:48:04identify potential

00:48:05suspects in the

00:48:06Oakland County

00:48:07child killer case.

00:48:08Lawson was a

00:48:10big bragger,

00:48:12bragged about

00:48:12how they used

00:48:13him on TV.

00:48:14He was the

00:48:15pedophile the

00:48:17news talked to

00:48:17about how

00:48:18pedophiles operate

00:48:20because in the

00:48:201970s,

00:48:21people didn't

00:48:22really know

00:48:22what pedophiles

00:48:23even were.

00:48:25Even went as

00:48:26far as to say

00:48:27that the Detroit

00:48:28police authorized

00:48:29him to molest

00:48:30kids as long

00:48:31as he got

00:48:31information about

00:48:32the child killings

00:48:33and which we

00:48:35know is far

00:48:37fetched.

00:48:37then determined

00:48:38later not even

00:48:40to be close

00:48:40to the truth.

00:48:42What makes you

00:48:42think that this

00:48:43information that

00:48:43you're going to

00:48:44talk to me about

00:48:44today could lead

00:48:46the investigation

00:48:47to the right

00:48:48person?

00:48:49Because I have

00:48:50no doubt in my

00:48:51mind this person

00:48:52would come to

00:48:53the Detroit area

00:48:54and the very

00:48:54first place you

00:48:55would go to

00:48:56would be the

00:48:56six mile

00:48:57point of the

00:48:57area.

00:48:59Lawson tells

00:49:00Williams he

00:49:01and other

00:49:01pedophiles hung

00:49:02out in Detroit's

00:49:03Cass Corridor.

00:49:05Back in the

00:49:0670s, it was a

00:49:07ten block

00:49:08cesspool of

00:49:08dope dealers,

00:49:09hookers, bars

00:49:11and a mecca

00:49:11for predators.

00:49:14The kids were

00:49:15so readily

00:49:15available, they

00:49:16were poor kids

00:49:17living in

00:49:18single parent

00:49:19apartment buildings

00:49:20and some of

00:49:22these had

00:49:23two, three

00:49:24hundred kids

00:49:25living in them

00:49:25and the

00:49:26pedophiles took

00:49:27advantage of

00:49:27that.

00:49:29And these

00:49:30were the guys

00:49:30Lawson believed

00:49:31may have been

00:49:32involved.

00:49:32one of them

00:49:34was a guy

00:49:35named Bob

00:49:35Moore and

00:49:36Moore was a

00:49:37very violent

00:49:37guy.

00:49:38Bad-eyed

00:49:39Bob, as he

00:49:40was known,

00:49:40owned a bike

00:49:41repair shop in

00:49:42the Cass

00:49:42Corridor.

00:49:43Bob was a

00:49:44legend, but he

00:49:45was in the

00:49:45Apple.

00:49:46Oh, he had

00:49:47an unbelievable

00:49:48obsession for

00:49:49the other kids.

00:49:51So obsessed,

00:49:52he liked to

00:49:52film them.

00:49:54They'd have

00:49:54parties where

00:49:55they would bring

00:49:56children and

00:49:57swap children

00:49:58and swap

00:49:58Polaroid films

00:50:00and they all

00:50:01knew each

00:50:01other.

00:50:02They didn't

00:50:02have the luxury

00:50:03of cell phones

00:50:04and computers

00:50:06to communicate

00:50:07with each

00:50:07other, but

00:50:07they knew

00:50:08where to

00:50:09meet.

00:50:11These kids

00:50:12were poor

00:50:12and they'd

00:50:13give them

00:50:13money or

00:50:14they'd give

00:50:14them drugs

00:50:14or they'd

00:50:15give them

00:50:15alcohol and

00:50:17the kids

00:50:18wanted to be

00:50:19paid.

00:50:20And so they'd

00:50:20take them to

00:50:20these parties

00:50:21and the kids

00:50:22would tell

00:50:23each other,

00:50:23this is all

00:50:24you have to

00:50:24do.

00:50:25It was big

00:50:26business in

00:50:26the 70s and

00:50:27bad-eyed Bob

00:50:28had high-paying

00:50:29customers.

00:50:30When we

00:50:31realized and

00:50:33started identifying

00:50:34these pedophile

00:50:34rings down

00:50:35in the corridor,

00:50:37we observed

00:50:39that there was

00:50:40a subject

00:50:40named Francis

00:50:41Sheldon.

00:50:42That is a

00:50:43name Detective

00:50:44Williams recognizes.

00:50:46The 48-year-old

00:50:47millionaire bachelor

00:50:48from Ann Arbor,

00:50:49an owner of

00:50:50North Fox

00:50:51Island in

00:50:51Lake Michigan.

00:50:53Bob Moore

00:50:54was giving

00:50:54these films

00:50:55to Sheldon

00:50:56to ship

00:50:56to Amsterdam.

00:50:58Sheldon,

00:51:00the man wanted

00:51:01for sexually

00:51:02abusing an

00:51:028-year-old boy

00:51:03and running

00:51:04the boys camp

00:51:05on North Fox

00:51:06Island.

00:51:07That story

00:51:07was unfolding

00:51:08at the same

00:51:09time as the

00:51:10Oakland County

00:51:10child killings

00:51:11were occurring.

00:51:13Frank Sheldon

00:51:13absconded.

00:51:14So we wanted

00:51:16to take a look

00:51:16at him

00:51:17and we were

00:51:17looking at

00:51:17the child

00:51:18pornography

00:51:19as a motive

00:51:20in this case

00:51:21just because

00:51:22it hadn't

00:51:22really been

00:51:22researched before.

00:51:24In the

00:51:25detectives' reports,

00:51:26there was drawings

00:51:26of the island

00:51:27and how he

00:51:28would fly kids

00:51:29to the island

00:51:30and he and

00:51:31his other

00:51:31pedophile associates

00:51:32from Port Huron

00:51:33would molest

00:51:34these boys

00:51:35there on the island.

00:51:36One of those

00:51:42molesters

00:51:43was a 48-year-old

00:51:44married man,

00:51:45father,

00:51:46and Catholic

00:51:47school gym teacher

00:51:48from Port Huron.

00:51:50This guy,

00:51:51Gerald Richards,

00:51:52was a magician

00:51:53for children's parties

00:51:55who was also

00:51:56a convicted

00:51:57pedophile.

00:51:59He eventually

00:51:59blew the lid

00:52:00off the North

00:52:01Fox Island

00:52:01pornography syndicate.

00:52:04There was a

00:52:0412-year-old boy

00:52:05who Richards

00:52:06was one of

00:52:07his neighbors

00:52:08who he took

00:52:09up to North

00:52:09Fox Island

00:52:10with him

00:52:11and made

00:52:11pornographic films

00:52:12with.

00:52:13You know,

00:52:14that's somebody

00:52:14who you could

00:52:16get a lot of

00:52:16information out

00:52:17of if he was

00:52:17willing to talk.

00:52:19His name

00:52:19is Michael

00:52:20Farquhar

00:52:21and he speaks

00:52:22here for the

00:52:23first time

00:52:24in 40 years.

00:52:25It's time to

00:52:26let go of a lot

00:52:27of things

00:52:27and it's time

00:52:28to get a lot

00:52:28of things right

00:52:29and straight.

00:52:35The fact

00:52:36that you're

00:52:36sitting here

00:52:37today,

00:52:37did you

00:52:38ever think

00:52:39this would

00:52:39happen?

00:52:40I think

00:52:41deep down

00:52:42inside the

00:52:42Lord has

00:52:43been giving

00:52:43me a sign

00:52:44that I

00:52:45know I

00:52:45had to

00:52:45do this.

00:52:5054-year-old

00:52:51Michael Farquhar

00:52:52is about to

00:52:53break his

00:52:53silence about

00:52:54how one

00:52:55man,

00:52:56gym teacher

00:52:56Gerald Richards,

00:52:58lured him

00:52:58into a world

00:52:59of pornography

00:52:59and abuse.

00:53:01When I show

00:53:02you this.

00:53:04Yep,

00:53:05that's him.

00:53:08That's him.

00:53:14It starts

00:53:15out innocently.

00:53:17I met

00:53:18him in the

00:53:18neighborhood,

00:53:20shoveling

00:53:20a sidewalk.

00:53:21I was 12

00:53:22years old

00:53:22and trying

00:53:23to hustle

00:53:23some money.

00:53:26You know,

00:53:26I was into

00:53:27minibikes,

00:53:28motorcycles and

00:53:28stuff and

00:53:29you know,

00:53:30I was

00:53:30determined

00:53:31and come

00:53:33across a

00:53:33little green

00:53:34house and

00:53:36there was

00:53:36an unusual

00:53:37man there

00:53:38and his

00:53:39name was

00:53:40Gerald Richards.

00:53:41Back in

00:53:411975,

00:53:43Gerald Richards

00:53:44was a

00:53:44family man,

00:53:45married with

00:53:46a kid,

00:53:47teaching gym

00:53:47at an

00:53:48elementary

00:53:48school and

00:53:49doing magic

00:53:50shows and

00:53:51photography on

00:53:51the side.

00:53:53He was

00:53:53quite an

00:53:53interesting

00:53:54guy for a

00:53:5512-year-old

00:53:55kid.

00:53:57Myself and

00:53:58anybody else

00:53:58interested in

00:53:59getting models

00:53:59that you would

00:54:00look for would

00:54:00be someone

00:54:01that had a

00:54:02poor family

00:54:03background as

00:54:03far as a

00:54:05father image in

00:54:06the home because

00:54:06the young model

00:54:07looks towards

00:54:08that man who

00:54:10is his friend

00:54:11and photographer

00:54:12too as a

00:54:13father substitute

00:54:14many times.

00:54:16Within a

00:54:17week's period,

00:54:17he contacted

00:54:18my parents and

00:54:20got me set up

00:54:21at the YMCA.

00:54:22and eventually I

00:54:25became his

00:54:25assistant in

00:54:27magic and we

00:54:29would travel

00:54:31around quite a

00:54:31bit and do

00:54:32some magic

00:54:33shows.

00:54:34I'd get paid

00:54:35like $50 for

00:54:36that.

00:54:37It's big money

00:54:38for a 12-year-old

00:54:39boy, but it

00:54:41came with a

00:54:41price.

00:54:42And he was

00:54:43telling me about

00:54:43photography and

00:54:45the art of it.

00:54:46I really only

00:54:48had one who

00:54:50was a fellow

00:54:52that I had

00:54:52met, a young

00:54:53fellow, actually,

00:54:55who agreed to

00:54:56pose.

00:54:57And I still

00:54:58at the time

00:55:00he was, I

00:55:02believe, 14.

00:55:03He slowly

00:55:04worked his way

00:55:05into, you know,

00:55:05taking pictures

00:55:06of me, getting

00:55:07me more

00:55:08comfortable with

00:55:08less clothes.

00:55:10And eventually

00:55:11it got down to

00:55:12where I was, you

00:55:13know, completely

00:55:14naked.

00:55:15Now these were

00:55:16not particularly

00:55:17offensive type

00:55:20of posing at

00:55:20that time.

00:55:21They were

00:55:22generally what

00:55:23you would consider

00:55:23an old physique

00:55:25type of posing,

00:55:26okay?

00:55:32Within two

00:55:33months, Michael

00:55:34moves from

00:55:34magic show

00:55:35assistant to

00:55:36model to

00:55:37something much

00:55:38darker.

00:55:39There were

00:55:40places like,

00:55:41you know, there

00:55:41was a couple

00:55:42churches in the

00:55:43Detroit area

00:55:43where we would

00:55:44go.

00:55:45And we'd do

00:55:46the magic show

00:55:46and when it

00:55:48cleared out,

00:55:48it became

00:55:49quite a bit

00:55:50uglier.

00:55:53More than often

00:55:54it was a trip

00:55:55to a motel.

00:55:58They'd be

00:55:58wanting to take

00:55:59pictures of me

00:55:59and they'd be

00:56:02wanting to, you

00:56:03know, perform

00:56:03immoral acts

00:56:04on me and

00:56:06have me do that

00:56:07to them too.

00:56:08The first time

00:56:12it was like my

00:56:12soul left my

00:56:13body.

00:56:15It was like

00:56:16I was looking

00:56:17down and

00:56:17watching this

00:56:18and today

00:56:19that's the way

00:56:20I still see it.

00:56:21I see myself

00:56:22looking down.

00:56:26There was a

00:56:26reverend involved.

00:56:28There was

00:56:29several times

00:56:30with several

00:56:31well-to-do men

00:56:33from around

00:56:34the country.

00:56:36Basically what

00:56:37it was was

00:56:37prostitution.

00:56:39You know,

00:56:40I was being

00:56:40sold by Jerry

00:56:41Richards

00:56:42to elite

00:56:45people.

00:56:45These pedophiles

00:56:49don't care about

00:56:49these kids.

00:56:50They're just

00:56:51objects to them.

00:56:52It wasn't just

00:56:53luring and

00:56:54grooming.

00:56:56There were

00:56:56threats involved

00:56:57too.

00:56:58And these

00:56:59pedophiles will

00:57:00go to any

00:57:01and all extremes

00:57:02to get what

00:57:03they're after.

00:57:06I couldn't tell

00:57:07my mom what

00:57:08was really going

00:57:09on.

00:57:09She was so

00:57:10proud of me.

00:57:12I knew

00:57:12what was wrong.

00:57:14Kids just

00:57:14don't.

00:57:15They don't.

00:57:17You know.

00:57:23He did all

00:57:24his developing

00:57:25of the films

00:57:26in his dark

00:57:27room in his

00:57:27basement.

00:57:29There was

00:57:30a bookstore

00:57:31in Port Huron

00:57:32and I remember

00:57:33I'd sit in the

00:57:34car while he'd

00:57:34go in there

00:57:35with the films

00:57:36and then he'd

00:57:37take the films

00:57:38to the post office

00:57:39and he was

00:57:40using the post

00:57:41office to

00:57:42mail them

00:57:43out to

00:57:44other people.

00:57:45The main

00:57:47organization in

00:57:48the United States

00:57:49is an organization

00:57:50called Better Life

00:57:51which is a

00:57:52philosophical group.

00:57:55Accessed only

00:57:55through the mail,

00:57:57Better Life Monthly

00:57:57billed itself as

00:57:59America's number

00:58:00one boy love

00:58:01magazine.

00:58:02Its masthead

00:58:03promises guidance

00:58:04and friendship

00:58:05serving the interests

00:58:06of pedophiles

00:58:07worldwide.

00:58:08And as it progressed

00:58:09I ran into

00:58:11a man

00:58:12also through

00:58:13the head

00:58:14who

00:58:15assisted

00:58:17in

00:58:17making

00:58:18places

00:58:19available

00:58:20where

00:58:20I could

00:58:22film

00:58:22models.

00:58:25Francis Duffel

00:58:26Sheldon.

00:58:27Yeah.

00:58:28Back then

00:58:30Francis Sheldon

00:58:31you know

00:58:31he was

00:58:32like a

00:58:33jolly old

00:58:33guy.

00:58:34He was

00:58:34great with

00:58:35people

00:58:35you know

00:58:36great with

00:58:37the kids

00:58:37you know

00:58:38really friendly

00:58:38but you know

00:58:40in the back

00:58:40of my mind

00:58:41I knew

00:58:42what his

00:58:42ultimate

00:58:42goal was.

00:58:44He was also

00:58:45great in

00:58:46business.

00:58:47In 1975

00:58:48Sheldon

00:58:49Richards

00:58:49and another

00:58:50wealthy

00:58:50pedophile

00:58:51Dyer

00:58:51Grossman

00:58:52set up

00:58:53Brother Paul's

00:58:54children's

00:58:54mission

00:58:55on North Fox

00:58:55Island

00:58:56a charity

00:58:57to help

00:58:57troubled

00:58:58teenage boys.

00:58:59I've been

00:59:02to the

00:59:02island

00:59:02several

00:59:03times.

00:59:04There was

00:59:05times when

00:59:05I went

00:59:05on the

00:59:06island

00:59:06with just

00:59:06Frank.

00:59:08Just me

00:59:08and Frank

00:59:08Sheldon.

00:59:11One time

00:59:12he put

00:59:12his airplane

00:59:12in autopilot

00:59:13and gave

00:59:16me oral

00:59:16sex

00:59:17while the

00:59:18plane was

00:59:18in autopilot.

00:59:20The camp

00:59:20claimed to

00:59:21offer tutoring

00:59:22counseling

00:59:23lodging

00:59:23and emergency

00:59:24care for

00:59:25runaways.

00:59:26They didn't

00:59:26charge for

00:59:27the boys

00:59:27but sponsors

00:59:29were asked

00:59:29to make

00:59:29donations.

00:59:31This camp

00:59:32received federal

00:59:33and state

00:59:33funding

00:59:34subsidizing

00:59:35Frank Sheldon's

00:59:37work with

00:59:37these troubled

00:59:38teens

00:59:38who would

00:59:40come in

00:59:41for the

00:59:41summer

00:59:41for various

00:59:42amounts

00:59:43of time

00:59:44get dropped

00:59:45off by their

00:59:46parents

00:59:46on the shore

00:59:48of Lake

00:59:48Michigan

00:59:48and then

00:59:49were flown

00:59:50over to

00:59:50Fox Island.

00:59:54It wasn't

00:59:55really a camp

00:59:55at all

00:59:56for...

00:59:56No,

00:59:57it was not

00:59:57a camp.

00:59:59It was

01:00:00for underprivileged

01:00:00use but

01:00:01it was

01:00:01no camp

01:00:02of any

01:00:04kind of

01:00:04goodness.

01:00:07It was

01:00:08a camp

01:00:09of pure

01:00:12perversion.

01:00:17A little

01:00:18rough

01:00:18climbing

01:00:18out of here.

01:00:20It's been

01:00:2040 years

01:00:21since Michael

01:00:21last set

01:00:22foot on

01:00:22the island.

01:00:23got to be

01:00:26careful who

01:00:27you put

01:00:27your

01:00:27put your

01:00:28children's

01:00:29hands

01:00:29in.

01:00:31Because of

01:00:33this

01:00:34my daughters

01:00:35weren't allowed

01:00:35to go to

01:00:36camps.

01:00:37There's a lot

01:00:38of things

01:00:38they weren't

01:00:39allowed to do

01:00:39because of

01:00:40this.

01:00:40never more

01:00:52than five

01:00:52or six

01:00:53boys on

01:00:53the island

01:00:54at any

01:00:54one time.

01:00:56They're free

01:00:56to do

01:00:57whatever

01:00:57they want.

01:01:00We would

01:01:01hike the

01:01:01island.

01:01:03You know,

01:01:03there's a lot

01:01:03of trails

01:01:04all through

01:01:04here.

01:01:05We would

01:01:09go swimming

01:01:10and we'd

01:01:11play football,

01:01:13you know,

01:01:13play catch.

01:01:15There was

01:01:15nothing

01:01:15organized or

01:01:17coordinated

01:01:18about what

01:01:20us kids

01:01:20were doing.

01:01:21It was,

01:01:23you guys

01:01:23have fun,

01:01:24you know,

01:01:24go for a

01:01:25hike.

01:01:26Yeah,

01:01:26we had

01:01:27wine,

01:01:28we had

01:01:28weed,

01:01:28we brought

01:01:29the weed.

01:01:30Yeah,

01:01:30I brought

01:01:31the weed.

01:01:32There was

01:01:33one organized

01:01:34event that

01:01:35no one

01:01:36could escape.

01:01:37We called

01:01:38it picture

01:01:38time.

01:01:40It's picture

01:01:41time.

01:01:44Yeah,

01:01:44they'd be

01:01:45following us

01:01:45with the

01:01:46cameras.

01:01:47Seems to

01:01:48me like

01:01:49they get

01:01:50excited about

01:01:51taking pictures.

01:01:53Hundreds

01:01:53were taken,

01:01:54hundreds.

01:01:56One time

01:01:57they had

01:01:57me tied

01:01:58to a tree

01:01:58and was

01:01:59taking

01:01:59pictures,

01:02:00had us

01:02:01kids tied

01:02:01together,

01:02:03you know,

01:02:03and

01:02:04they were

01:02:05setting it

01:02:05up like

01:02:07it was

01:02:07a fun

01:02:08thing to

01:02:08do.

01:02:11None of

01:02:12us were

01:02:12really happy

01:02:12about that,

01:02:13but we

01:02:13felt that

01:02:14it was

01:02:14our duty,

01:02:15our obligation,

01:02:18you know,

01:02:18to do what

01:02:19they wanted.

01:02:20It was a

01:02:21pedophile's

01:02:21paradise.

01:02:23Some of

01:02:23the pictures

01:02:23were sold

01:02:24to active

01:02:24sponsors.

01:02:26For a

01:02:26charitable

01:02:26donation,

01:02:27they could

01:02:27access the

01:02:28island and

01:02:29the boys.

01:02:30the men

01:02:31on the

01:02:32island,

01:02:32they were

01:02:33lawyers,

01:02:33they were

01:02:34doctors,

01:02:34they were

01:02:35politicians.

01:02:36You know,

01:02:37you had to

01:02:37have big

01:02:37money to

01:02:38play in

01:02:38this game.

01:02:44Oh,

01:02:45yes.

01:02:49Memories.

01:02:50If the

01:02:57men wanted

01:02:57to take

01:02:58pictures,

01:02:59you know,

01:03:00pictures were

01:03:01going to be

01:03:01taken.

01:03:01If they

01:03:02wanted to

01:03:02have sex

01:03:02with me,

01:03:04they were

01:03:04going to

01:03:04have sex

01:03:04with me,

01:03:05and they

01:03:05did.

01:03:07You know,

01:03:07several times.

01:03:10Those are

01:03:11memories that

01:03:11you like to

01:03:12keep put

01:03:13far,

01:03:14far deep

01:03:14away.

01:03:29I was

01:03:30molested in

01:03:30this room.

01:03:34Yeah,

01:03:34there's, uh,

01:03:36a lot of

01:03:36bad things

01:03:37happened here.

01:03:42Yeah,

01:03:43there was a

01:03:43time that

01:03:44burnt this

01:03:44whole island

01:03:45right to

01:03:45the ground

01:03:46just to

01:03:47put the

01:03:48pain away,

01:03:49make the

01:03:49memories go

01:03:50away.

01:03:51And why

01:03:51in the

01:03:51am I

01:03:52trying to

01:03:52remember

01:03:53this

01:03:53?

01:03:53What the

01:03:55did you

01:03:56just do

01:03:56to me?

01:04:00We need

01:04:01to take

01:04:01a break,

01:04:01guys.

01:04:03I'm

01:04:03starting to

01:04:04hallucinate

01:04:04.

01:04:05For two

01:04:13seasons,

01:04:13brother Paul's

01:04:14children's camp

01:04:15operated hidden

01:04:17in plain sight.

01:04:20Nobody would

01:04:21talk.

01:04:21Nobody would

01:04:22step up.

01:04:24I wasn't

01:04:25smart enough

01:04:25to tell my

01:04:26parents.

01:04:28To this

01:04:29very day,

01:04:29I don't know

01:04:29why I was

01:04:30doing it,

01:04:31why I didn't

01:04:31say anything.

01:04:32in July of

01:04:371976,

01:04:39one kid

01:04:39broke the

01:04:40silence,

01:04:41and 15-year-old

01:04:42Michael Farquhar

01:04:43finds himself

01:04:44in the back

01:04:44of a police

01:04:45car.

01:04:47One of them

01:04:47looked at me

01:04:48and said,

01:04:48if you don't

01:04:49tell us what's

01:04:50going on,

01:04:50you're going to

01:04:51prison for the

01:04:52rest of your

01:04:52life.

01:04:53July 15th,

01:05:051976.

01:05:07After two

01:05:08seasons in

01:05:08operation,

01:05:09one boy

01:05:10tells his

01:05:10mother the

01:05:11secret of

01:05:12North Fox

01:05:12Island.

01:05:15Eddie was

01:05:16one of the

01:05:16younger kids.

01:05:18He was only

01:05:19eight or nine

01:05:20during the time.

01:05:23Eddie tells

01:05:26the police

01:05:27he was

01:05:27sexually abused

01:05:28by both

01:05:29Gerald Richards

01:05:30and Frank

01:05:30Sheldon

01:05:31numerous times.

01:05:33It's an

01:05:33allegation

01:05:34they can't

01:05:34ignore.

01:05:35And when

01:05:36the police

01:05:36come looking

01:05:37for Michael,

01:05:38they want

01:05:38answers.

01:05:41I clammed

01:05:42right up.

01:05:42I had

01:05:43nothing to

01:05:43say.

01:05:45Nothing.

01:05:45I was

01:05:46scared to

01:05:46death.

01:05:48They

01:05:48released

01:05:49me.

01:05:50And

01:05:51I went

01:05:52home.

01:05:53There's

01:05:53so much

01:05:54information

01:05:55I could

01:05:55have

01:05:55gave

01:05:55them.

01:05:57If you

01:05:57want to

01:05:58talk to

01:05:58a kid,

01:05:59don't ever

01:05:59threaten them.

01:06:01Biggest

01:06:02mistake they

01:06:02ever made

01:06:03in this

01:06:03case.

01:06:05I got

01:06:06on the

01:06:06phone and

01:06:07I called

01:06:07Jerry Richards.

01:06:08I told

01:06:09them the

01:06:10police just

01:06:10talked.

01:06:11They

01:06:11wanted to

01:06:11know what

01:06:11you're

01:06:12doing.

01:06:13At that

01:06:14point,

01:06:15Jerry Richards

01:06:16started

01:06:16hiding stuff.

01:06:19All the

01:06:19pictures and

01:06:19stuff.

01:06:21He told

01:06:21me that he

01:06:22buried him

01:06:22in his

01:06:23backyard.

01:06:25The detectives,

01:06:26they eventually

01:06:26got to my

01:06:27mom and dad

01:06:27and told

01:06:28them what

01:06:28was going

01:06:28on.

01:06:28and my

01:06:30dad explained

01:06:30to me I

01:06:31had to tell

01:06:32the truth.

01:06:33I think it

01:06:34killed my

01:06:34mom.

01:06:36I think the

01:06:38guilt, guilt

01:06:39my dad.

01:06:41When I was a

01:06:41child, I

01:06:41couldn't understand

01:06:42what my parents

01:06:44were going

01:06:44through.

01:06:45Today, oh

01:06:46yeah, I see

01:06:47it.

01:06:47bastards.

01:06:54And I

01:06:55remember

01:06:55seeing Eddie

01:06:55and asking

01:06:57him, why'd

01:06:58you tell

01:06:58everybody?

01:07:00And he

01:07:00told me

01:07:00because they

01:07:01hurt me.

01:07:03I understood

01:07:03then, you

01:07:05know, they

01:07:06hurt him.

01:07:08No one

01:07:08understood the

01:07:09secret world

01:07:10he'd exposed.

01:07:12Two weeks

01:07:12later, Richards

01:07:13is charged with

01:07:14criminal sexual

01:07:15conduct with a

01:07:16minor.

01:07:17In

01:07:19exchange for

01:07:20a lesser

01:07:21sentence,

01:07:23Gerald Richards

01:07:24handed over

01:07:25the client

01:07:25list.

01:07:27He rats

01:07:28out his

01:07:28wealthy

01:07:28accomplices in

01:07:29Brother Paul's

01:07:30children's

01:07:31mission,

01:07:31multimillionaire

01:07:32Dyer Grossman

01:07:33and Francis

01:07:34Sheldon.

01:07:35As soon as

01:07:36Gerald Richards

01:07:37was arrested,

01:07:39Sheldon was

01:07:39tipped off.

01:07:41And he

01:07:42went to Ann

01:07:42Arbor and

01:07:43cleaned out

01:07:44everything in

01:07:45his apartment

01:07:45and fled the

01:07:46country.

01:07:48Frank Sheldon

01:07:48was very

01:07:48politically

01:07:49connected.

01:07:50He was one

01:07:50of the

01:07:50wealthiest

01:07:51people in

01:07:51the state.

01:07:52You're not

01:07:52going to get

01:07:53the jump on

01:07:53that guy.

01:07:56Money or

01:07:57wealth and

01:07:58power can

01:07:59make a lot

01:07:59of things go

01:08:00away.

01:08:02After months

01:08:03of legal foot

01:08:04dragging, the

01:08:05police issue

01:08:06arrest warrants

01:08:07on both Sheldon

01:08:07and Grossman on

01:08:08two counts of

01:08:09child abuse.

01:08:10But they're

01:08:11long gone.

01:08:12Sheldon has

01:08:13escaped to

01:08:14Amsterdam.

01:08:15Grossman is

01:08:15somewhere in

01:08:16California.

01:08:17Richards pleads

01:08:18guilty and is

01:08:19sentenced to

01:08:20two to twenty

01:08:20years in

01:08:21Jackson prison.

01:08:23None of the

01:08:23others ever

01:08:24pays for their

01:08:25crimes against

01:08:26those boys.

01:08:28Well, after,

01:08:29you know,

01:08:2976 when

01:08:30Richards went

01:08:31to jail,

01:08:32it all just

01:08:33kind of went

01:08:33away.

01:08:34It just kind

01:08:34of left me

01:08:34hanging out

01:08:35there, you

01:08:36know, dealing

01:08:37without humiliation

01:08:38and all the

01:08:40consequences for

01:08:41my sins.

01:08:42The camp on

01:08:43North Fox

01:08:44Island was

01:08:44busted, but

01:08:45the pedophiles

01:08:46scattered throughout

01:08:47Michigan.

01:08:49280 miles south

01:08:50and four months

01:08:51later, the

01:08:52Oakland County

01:08:53child killer

01:08:53strikes again,

01:08:55abducting and

01:08:56killing Jill

01:08:56Robinson, Christine

01:08:58Mihalik, and Tim

01:08:59King over a span

01:09:00of four months.

01:09:02The police are

01:09:03prepared to pursue

01:09:03this case on a

01:09:04massive scale for

01:09:05six months if

01:09:06necessary.

01:09:07They hope and

01:09:08pray they find the

01:09:09killer quickly.

01:09:10every hour, they

01:09:11live with the

01:09:12fear that he

01:09:13could strike

01:09:13again.

01:09:16When Detective

01:09:17Williams reopens

01:09:18the child murder

01:09:19case in 2005, he

01:09:21employs a modern

01:09:22investigative tool,

01:09:24DNA.

01:09:26A newly

01:09:26assembled task

01:09:27force has set up

01:09:28a new command

01:09:29center to house

01:09:30all the evidence

01:09:30in the 30-year-old

01:09:31murder mystery.

01:09:33They begin

01:09:34reanalyzing the

01:09:35physical evidence

01:09:36from 1976 and

01:09:381977.

01:09:40Detective

01:09:40Williams, now

01:09:41part of that

01:09:42task force, looks

01:09:43for a connection

01:09:44between the photos

01:09:45and the films made

01:09:46in Detroit and

01:09:47North Fox Island

01:09:48and the Oakland

01:09:49County child

01:09:50killer.

01:09:51We realized

01:09:53Francis Sheldon

01:09:54would develop

01:09:56through other

01:09:56pedophiles' child

01:09:57pornography, and

01:09:59he was shipping

01:09:59it to Amsterdam to

01:10:01be processed and

01:10:02sold at a

01:10:03worldwide distributor

01:10:04there.

01:10:04We looked at a

01:10:08possibility of

01:10:09where the kids

01:10:10snatch four

01:10:11snuff porn

01:10:12films, where the

01:10:13kids are molested

01:10:14and killed on

01:10:16camera, and then

01:10:17the films are

01:10:18sold.

01:10:22Detective

01:10:23Williams learns

01:10:23that in 1993,

01:10:25mountains of

01:10:26illicit material

01:10:27were seized from

01:10:28Frank Sheldon's

01:10:29distributor in

01:10:30Amsterdam.

01:10:30They had

01:10:31hundreds of

01:10:32thousands of

01:10:33photos and

01:10:34videos of kids,

01:10:36and we sent

01:10:37photos of our

01:10:38kids, our

01:10:39victims, and we

01:10:40wanted to see if

01:10:41they could do a

01:10:41comparison.

01:10:42Could this be the

01:10:44break they were

01:10:44looking for?

01:10:45It was months

01:10:48later, we got a

01:10:49result back from

01:10:50them that they

01:10:51didn't see our

01:10:52kids involved in

01:10:52any of the

01:10:53films or pictures.

01:10:56During this

01:10:57cold case

01:10:57investigation in

01:10:582005, police

01:11:00informant and

01:11:01pedophile Richard

01:11:01Lawson gives

01:11:03Detective Williams

01:11:03the name of

01:11:04another sexual

01:11:05predator in the

01:11:06Cass corridor

01:11:07where he hung

01:11:08out.

01:11:09It was a name

01:11:09he had mentioned

01:11:10to the task

01:11:11force 30 years

01:11:12ago.

01:11:14He said,

01:11:15Corey, there's

01:11:16a pedophile that

01:11:17was in the

01:11:18Cass corridor

01:11:18area named

01:11:19Ted Orr.

01:11:20He went by

01:11:20the name

01:11:21Ted Orr.

01:11:22Was there a

01:11:23relationship with

01:11:24Ted Orr and

01:11:25Bob Orr?

01:11:26A friendship.

01:11:27Just a friendship?

01:11:28Right.

01:11:29But they were

01:11:30involved with

01:11:31some of the

01:11:31same children.

01:11:33And he said,

01:11:34Corey, I think,

01:11:35if I remember

01:11:35right, Orr had

01:11:37a, that was

01:11:38just his name

01:11:39he used in

01:11:40Cass corridor,

01:11:40but his real

01:11:41last name was

01:11:42like L-A-M

01:11:43something.

01:11:43So I went

01:11:44through the

01:11:45old 18,000

01:11:46tips at the

01:11:47state police

01:11:47post and

01:11:49found a

01:11:50Theodore

01:11:50Lamborghini.

01:11:52Tips number

01:11:53278 and

01:11:54279.

01:11:56Lawson told

01:11:57me one time

01:11:57he and

01:11:58Lamborghini

01:11:59were at

01:11:59Bob Moore's

01:12:00house while

01:12:01Tim King

01:12:01was either

01:12:03missing or

01:12:04right after

01:12:04he was

01:12:05missing.

01:12:06And Bob

01:12:06Moore had

01:12:07a photo album

01:12:08that had

01:12:08child pictures

01:12:09in it.

01:12:11And that

01:12:11Lamborghini said

01:12:12to Lawson,

01:12:13does that

01:12:13not look

01:12:14like the

01:12:14king kid

01:12:14and kind

01:12:15of snickered?

01:12:20In 2005,

01:12:22Detective

01:12:23Williams tracks

01:12:23Lamborghini down

01:12:24in Ohio where

01:12:25he works at

01:12:26the Ford

01:12:26plant.

01:12:27At that

01:12:27time he

01:12:28denied any

01:12:28involvement in

01:12:29the child

01:12:29killings,

01:12:30admitted that

01:12:31yes, he's a

01:12:32pedophile,

01:12:33likes young

01:12:33boys, lived

01:12:34in Detroit

01:12:35in the

01:12:3570s.

01:12:37The 64

01:12:37year old

01:12:38even agrees

01:12:39to take a

01:12:39polygraph.

01:12:40After 30

01:12:41years and

01:12:42hundreds of

01:12:42cops chasing

01:12:43thousands of

01:12:44leads,

01:12:45Detective

01:12:45Williams isn't

01:12:46holding his

01:12:46breath.

01:12:47Would this

01:12:48be any

01:12:48different?

01:12:49This case

01:12:50has been a

01:12:51rollercoaster

01:12:51ride from

01:12:52day one as

01:12:53far as,

01:12:54you know,

01:12:54you get

01:12:55excited about

01:12:55a lead,

01:12:56you follow

01:12:57it through

01:12:57until it's

01:12:59exhausted.

01:13:00When the

01:13:01polygraph

01:13:01results come

01:13:02in,

01:13:03Lamborghini has

01:13:04failed it so

01:13:04miserably that

01:13:06the cops may

01:13:07crack the case

01:13:07that's eluded

01:13:08them for so

01:13:09long.

01:13:11Hey, Ted,

01:13:12can you tell me

01:13:13why the police

01:13:14and the FBI are

01:13:15interested in you?

01:13:16No.

01:13:17News of a new

01:13:18player in the

01:13:19almost 30-year-old

01:13:20unsolved case

01:13:21leaks out to the

01:13:22media.

01:13:23You know

01:13:23anything about

01:13:23those murders?

01:13:25Can you tell me

01:13:25why you plugged

01:13:26the polygraph?

01:13:27Scared.

01:13:29But a failed

01:13:29polygraph is not

01:13:31enough to arrest

01:13:32Ted Lamborghini.

01:13:33If you don't know

01:13:34anything at all,

01:13:34why would they

01:13:35bother to come

01:13:35down and talk

01:13:36to you?

01:13:36That's what I

01:13:37don't understand.

01:13:37He's the most

01:13:39promising lead

01:13:39in decades.

01:13:41The task force

01:13:42begins tracking

01:13:42down some of

01:13:43his pedophilia

01:13:44victims from

01:13:45the 70s.

01:13:46It might give

01:13:47them the leverage

01:13:47they need for

01:13:48a confession.

01:13:50The victims

01:13:50that I interviewed

01:13:51of Lamborghini,

01:13:53most of them

01:13:54were either

01:13:54taken on trips,

01:13:56groomed with

01:13:57drugs or alcohol,

01:13:59offered money.

01:14:01One of the

01:14:02victims was as

01:14:03young as nine

01:14:04years old

01:14:04and Ted

01:14:06molested him

01:14:07in the front

01:14:07seat of his

01:14:07car over

01:14:08by the train

01:14:09station here

01:14:10in Detroit.

01:14:10The more

01:14:11victims they

01:14:11talked to,

01:14:12the more

01:14:13Lamborghini fits

01:14:14the profile.

01:14:15Some of the

01:14:16victims that

01:14:16we interviewed

01:14:17about what

01:14:18Lamborghini had

01:14:18done to them

01:14:19was not only

01:14:20molested them

01:14:21forcefully and

01:14:22violently,

01:14:23but Lamborghini

01:14:24would force

01:14:25these kids

01:14:25into a tub

01:14:26after to make

01:14:27sure they got

01:14:28rid of any

01:14:28DNA.

01:14:29At least

01:14:36the one

01:14:37subject whose

01:14:37face was

01:14:38pushed in a

01:14:38pillow and

01:14:39thought he

01:14:39was going

01:14:39to suffocate,

01:14:41obviously our

01:14:42victims were

01:14:43suffocated, so

01:14:44that was

01:14:44something that

01:14:45we were looking

01:14:45at.

01:14:47We did a

01:14:48search one on

01:14:48his apartment

01:14:49to see if we

01:14:50could find any

01:14:51connection to

01:14:51the child-killing

01:14:52case.

01:14:53His apartment,

01:14:54I can say,

01:14:55was a very

01:14:55odd place.

01:14:57The cleanliness

01:14:57of it, his

01:14:59furniture was

01:15:00all covered

01:15:01with tags on

01:15:02it, super

01:15:02clean and

01:15:03neat.

01:15:04No food in

01:15:05the refrigerator

01:15:06whatsoever.

01:15:07He ate out

01:15:08three meals a

01:15:08day.

01:15:09Oh yeah, he

01:15:10was obsessive

01:15:11compulsive.

01:15:12I mean, his

01:15:13closet, everything

01:15:14was like this

01:15:15far apart and

01:15:16hanging in his

01:15:17closet.

01:15:17It was crazy.

01:15:19He was nuttier

01:15:20than a junkyard

01:15:21rat.

01:15:24I confronted

01:15:25him and said,

01:15:27you didn't fail

01:15:28that polygraph

01:15:29because you

01:15:29were afraid.

01:15:31You failed

01:15:31that polygraph

01:15:31because you

01:15:32killed those

01:15:33kids.

01:15:33And his

01:15:33response to

01:15:34me was,

01:15:35God's

01:15:35forgiven me.

01:15:39Today,

01:15:39Lamborghini was

01:15:40charged with

01:15:40molesting eight

01:15:41boys in

01:15:42Metro Detroit.

01:15:43But many are

01:15:44eager to know

01:15:45if he is also

01:15:46the Oakland

01:15:46County child

01:15:47killer, a man

01:15:48who has eluded

01:15:49police for 30

01:15:50years.

01:15:52When it was

01:15:52all said and

01:15:52done, we had

01:15:5417 counts,

01:15:56three life felony

01:15:57counts on

01:15:57Lamborghini for

01:15:58child molestation

01:15:59from boys that

01:16:01he had raped here

01:16:01in Detroit back

01:16:02in the 70s.

01:16:03They offer him

01:16:04the possibility of

01:16:05a lighter sentence

01:16:06and witness

01:16:07protection if he

01:16:08agrees to a

01:16:09second polygraph.

01:16:11He not only

01:16:12turned down the

01:16:14offer, but instead

01:16:15of trying to

01:16:16negotiate some

01:16:18sort of a plea

01:16:19for himself in

01:16:20any way, he

01:16:21pledged straight up

01:16:22on the nose, all

01:16:2417 counts, including

01:16:25life felonies, which

01:16:27to us was very

01:16:28telling.

01:16:29It appeared to us

01:16:30he didn't want to

01:16:31implicate himself in

01:16:32something that may be

01:16:33larger or more

01:16:34massive.

01:16:35He wouldn't talk.

01:16:36He went away

01:16:36quietly.

01:16:38With no proof that

01:16:39Lamborghini is involved

01:16:40in the Oakland County

01:16:41child killings, that

01:16:43door closes.

01:16:45But another one

01:16:46opens.

01:16:47I was at my

01:16:50office in

01:16:51Livonia and got

01:16:53a call out of

01:16:54the blue one

01:16:54afternoon, and it

01:16:55was Kathy King,

01:16:56Tim King's older

01:16:57sister.

01:16:59I had never

01:17:00spoken with her

01:17:00before, and she

01:17:02had some information

01:17:03that they had

01:17:04gleaned from a

01:17:06friend of theirs, a

01:17:07friend named

01:17:08Patrick Coffey.

01:17:09Patrick Coffey

01:17:10lived across the

01:17:11street from the

01:17:12King family in

01:17:13Birmingham back in

01:17:141977.

01:17:15He was best

01:17:16friends with

01:17:17Tim's older

01:17:17brother, Chris.

01:17:19We knew that

01:17:20whole family.

01:17:21We were friends.

01:17:22The King boys and

01:17:24all the Coffey

01:17:25boys, we could

01:17:26play hockey in my

01:17:27uncle's frozen

01:17:28backyard.

01:17:29Matter of fact, if

01:17:31you were looking for

01:17:31one of the King

01:17:32boys or the Coffey

01:17:33boys, that's the

01:17:34first place that the

01:17:35families would call.

01:17:39Timmy King's

01:17:40parents, police, and

01:17:41the public were

01:17:42hoping, praying, that

01:17:44the 11-year-old

01:17:45youngster would be

01:17:46found alive.

01:17:46Late last night,

01:17:48those desperate hopes

01:17:49wound up in a ditch

01:17:50beside a dirt road in

01:17:51western Wayne County

01:17:52where Timmy King's

01:17:53body had been

01:17:54dumped.

01:17:56I remember when

01:17:58Timmy was taken

01:17:59and ultimately found

01:18:02dead.

01:18:04It was like a shock

01:18:05to the system.

01:18:07You just can't process

01:18:09it or accept it.

01:18:10I remember leaving out

01:18:11the back door.

01:18:12I didn't want my

01:18:13brothers to see me

01:18:14cry.

01:18:16And I remember

01:18:17pounding my fist

01:18:18against a brick wall

01:18:23and thinking, this can't

01:18:26be.

01:18:33Patrick now works as a

01:18:34polygrapher, an expert

01:18:36witness nationwide.

01:18:37I've been doing

01:18:39polygraph exams

01:18:40for 30 years

01:18:41and I do them

01:18:42in three languages.

01:18:44I could never

01:18:46have envisioned

01:18:46that I personally

01:18:47could have made

01:18:48any contribution

01:18:48to this case.

01:18:50Until July 2006

01:18:52in Las Vegas,

01:18:54where a one-in-a-million

01:18:55chance encounter

01:18:56breaks decades

01:18:58of silence.

01:18:59I thought,

01:19:00this has got to be

01:19:01providence.

01:19:02This has got to be

01:19:03God's hand in this.

01:19:07At a polygrapher's

01:19:09convention in Vegas

01:19:10in 2006,

01:19:12Patrick Coffey learns

01:19:13that what happens

01:19:14in Vegas

01:19:14doesn't always

01:19:16stay in Vegas.

01:19:19I was asked

01:19:19to be a guest speaker.

01:19:21I'd gotten done

01:19:22doing my presentation

01:19:23of about a half an hour

01:19:25and an individual

01:19:26walked up to me

01:19:27and they said,

01:19:28that was a very

01:19:29dynamic presentation.

01:19:31And from that

01:19:32sentence alone,

01:19:34I heard the unique

01:19:35Michigan,

01:19:37nasal accent,

01:19:38if you will.

01:19:39And I said,

01:19:40the reason I came

01:19:41into this profession

01:19:42was because of what

01:19:44happened to my

01:19:44neighbor boy.

01:19:46Maybe you've heard

01:19:47of the case.

01:19:48Most people would

01:19:49call it the Oakland

01:19:50County child killer

01:19:51case.

01:19:52And I noticed

01:19:53a physical change

01:19:54in his face.

01:19:55He said,

01:19:56I tested the guy

01:19:57who confessed

01:20:00to killing

01:20:01your neighbor boy.

01:20:01cue an instant

01:20:07primal cold sweat.

01:20:10He went on

01:20:11to tell me

01:20:11that they were

01:20:13testing someone

01:20:14on a completely

01:20:16unrelated case,

01:20:17the molestation

01:20:18of a little girl,

01:20:19and that this attorney

01:20:21had sent their client

01:20:24to him to be tested.

01:20:25In the development

01:20:27of all the questions

01:20:28in the polygraph,

01:20:30he was getting

01:20:30some resistance

01:20:31to certain questions.

01:20:34And finally,

01:20:35in frustration,

01:20:36he said to the

01:20:37individual,

01:20:38well,

01:20:38why can't you

01:20:39answer no

01:20:40to that question?

01:20:43To which the

01:20:44individual replied,

01:20:45because I didn't

01:20:47do this one,

01:20:49but I did the king

01:20:51boy in Birmingham.

01:20:52As soon as

01:20:55the polygrapher

01:20:56says it,

01:20:57he realizes

01:20:58he shouldn't have

01:20:58and refuses

01:20:59to say the name.

01:21:01He does give

01:21:02Patrick Coffey

01:21:03two clues.

01:21:04The individual

01:21:05who confessed

01:21:06is dead,

01:21:07and so is his attorney.

01:21:16Like midnight

01:21:17or one in the morning,

01:21:18you know,

01:21:18the phone rings.

01:21:19It's Patrick Coffey

01:21:20who I've talked

01:21:21to once,

01:21:2130 years,

01:21:22who tells me

01:21:24this story.

01:21:25And he said,

01:21:25and I am telling

01:21:26you this now

01:21:26because I had

01:21:27a stroke last year

01:21:28and I know

01:21:29life can be short,

01:21:30but I want you

01:21:30to have this bit

01:21:31of information

01:21:32in case,

01:21:33God forbid,

01:21:33something should

01:21:34happen to me.

01:21:35After 30 years,

01:21:37a lead in Tim's murder,

01:21:39but not from the police,

01:21:40from a family friend,

01:21:42but what to do

01:21:43with this information.

01:21:45My feeling was,

01:21:47okay,

01:21:47I'm an attorney.

01:21:49It was an attorney-client,

01:21:50privileged polygraph,

01:21:52and if I take it

01:21:54to the state police,

01:21:55they're going to

01:21:55deep-six it.

01:21:56And I didn't tell my dad

01:21:58because at the time,

01:21:59he told the state police

01:22:01everything.

01:22:02I knew it would go

01:22:03in a circular file

01:22:04and never see the light of day.

01:22:05So I said

01:22:07to my sister

01:22:08offhandedly,

01:22:09I said,

01:22:10you know,

01:22:11Corey Williams,

01:22:12he put Ted Lambergine away.

01:22:13He's a hustler.

01:22:14I'm impressed with him.

01:22:16And so,

01:22:17she had said,

01:22:18well,

01:22:18let's bring this

01:22:19packed coffee lead

01:22:20to Corey.

01:22:23I had never met him.

01:22:25I called him.

01:22:26I said,

01:22:27I would like

01:22:28to tell you something,

01:22:28but I will only tell you

01:22:30if you won't tell

01:22:30the state police.

01:22:32And he said,

01:22:33well,

01:22:33we can do that

01:22:33up to a point.

01:22:34I ended my call

01:22:37with Kathy

01:22:38and called

01:22:39my prosecutor

01:22:40right away

01:22:40and said,

01:22:41listen,

01:22:41we might have

01:22:42something interesting here.

01:22:45Corey Williams

01:22:45started investigating

01:22:46that lead.

01:22:47That was one of the reasons

01:22:48that this case

01:22:49kind of started

01:22:50to spark

01:22:51a little bit again.

01:22:52Over the next year,

01:22:53the task force

01:22:54pours through polygraphs

01:22:56that took place

01:22:56in Flint in 1977.

01:22:59All they have

01:23:00is the clues

01:23:00Patrick Coffey gave them.

01:23:02The individual is dead

01:23:03and so is the attorney.

01:23:06We found 40 or 50 polygraphs,

01:23:09but only two pertaining

01:23:10to the Oakland County

01:23:10child killings.

01:23:12One we were able

01:23:13to exclude right away

01:23:15as not being connected

01:23:16to our case.

01:23:17The other one

01:23:18was Chris Bush

01:23:19and Greg Green.

01:23:20Those names

01:23:21sound familiar

01:23:21to Detective Williams.

01:23:23In February of 1977,

01:23:26Christopher Bush

01:23:27was the 25-year-old suspect

01:23:29obsessed with boys,

01:23:30arrested,

01:23:31questioned,

01:23:31and polygraphed

01:23:32with his fellow accomplice,

01:23:34Gregory Green,

01:23:35in the murders

01:23:35of the first three victims.

01:23:37We started pulling

01:23:38these records

01:23:38and police reports,

01:23:40meaning not only

01:23:41was molesting kids

01:23:42in Oakland County

01:23:43and all over the place,

01:23:44when they arrested him,

01:23:45he had a suitcase

01:23:45with ropes in the car,

01:23:47child pornography,

01:23:48pounds of weed,

01:23:49and a shotgun.

01:23:50He was released

01:23:51on bond

01:23:52after being questioned

01:23:53related to

01:23:54the child killings.

01:23:56And roughly a week later,

01:23:57Timothy King

01:23:58goes missing.

01:23:58In 2010,

01:24:01as he digs

01:24:02through the files,

01:24:03Appelman discovers

01:24:04one sentence

01:24:05buried in a small-town

01:24:07northern Michigan newspaper,

01:24:09a sentence

01:24:09that may unlock

01:24:11a dark connection.

01:24:12This article

01:24:13talks about

01:24:14pornography

01:24:15confiscated

01:24:16from North Fox Island

01:24:18and pornography

01:24:19confiscated

01:24:20from Christopher Bush.

01:24:22His name

01:24:22was found

01:24:23among the list

01:24:23of Francis Sheldon's

01:24:25clients

01:24:26and subscribers.

01:24:28Did the cops

01:24:30have the killer

01:24:31and let him go?

01:24:33Next time

01:24:34on Children of the Snow.

01:24:36There's just too much

01:24:37stuff there

01:24:37that made it look like

01:24:39I'm the man,

01:24:40this is it,

01:24:41everything's over.

01:24:42There's a saying

01:24:43in cold case investigations,

01:24:44the vast majority

01:24:45of the time,

01:24:46the killer's name

01:24:46is already in the box.

01:24:48Did the police

01:24:49miss crucial evidence

01:24:50or deliberately hide it?

01:24:52I watched Christine

01:24:53leave 7-Eleven

01:24:54with a police officer

01:24:55and was never seen again.

01:24:58Will science

01:24:59unlock a 40-year-old mystery

01:25:00from a single strand

01:25:02of hair?

01:25:03If you find out

01:25:04who this hair belongs to,

01:25:05you're going to have

01:25:05your guy.

01:25:06By the way,

01:25:07if you find out

01:25:08the way,

01:25:09well barbecue

01:25:10is one of the mcs

01:25:11who's affected

01:25:12and is going to be

01:25:13having it again.

01:25:15Why is it

01:25:15if you're doing all of

01:25:16the things

01:25:16that you need

01:25:17and receiving

01:25:17your injection

01:25:18into the way?

01:25:19It reminds me

01:25:20of your skin

01:25:21that's going to YEAH

01:25:21if you know

01:25:22you have to

01:25:23the nostalgia

01:25:24you are going to

01:25:25come out

01:25:26and heaven

01:25:27down

01:25:27and diamonds

01:25:28get started.

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