
The Snow Killings
Inside the Oakland County Child Killer Investigation
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Carrington MacDuffie
Over 13 months in 1976-1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them held for days before their still-warm bodies were dumped in the snow near public roadsides. The Oakland County Child Murders spawned panic across southeast Michigan, triggering the most extensive manhunt in US history. Yet after less than two years, the task force created to find the killer was shut down without naming a suspect.
The case “went cold” for more than 30 years, until a chance discovery by one victim’s family pointed to the son of a wealthy General Motors executive: Christopher Brian Busch, a convicted pedophile, was freed weeks before the fourth child disappeared.
Veteran Detroit News reporter Marney Rich Keenan takes the listener inside the investigation of the still-unsolved murders - seen through the eyes of the lead detective in the case and the family who cracked it open - revealing evidence of a decades-long cover-up of malfeasance and obstruction that denied justice for the victims.
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Well written and read
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It's a very hard story to hear.
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the narrator did a great job. at times she was a bit monitor but how does one read a police file any other way? they're not exciting.
this is a true story.. horrific true story.
snow killings
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So many players to keep track of
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I grew up in Birmingham and went to school with the Kings and the Coffees.
I’ll never forget that morning, walking through Poppleton Park with my friend Carol, on our way to school. We were a little weirded out by the large police presence over by the tennis courts and even more apprehensive when we were waved over to speak to them. What could they want with us? They asked us if we knew Timmy King. “Yes,” we said, nodding our heads. “He’s been abducted,” they told us. We were shocked.
They warned us to be careful, to avoid walking alone and to keep and eye out for a blue Gremlin, the car driven by the suspect. They advised us to call them if we saw anything suspicious or heard anything about Timmy’s whereabouts. We went on our way, frightened and alert, down Mohegan Street and across Adams Road, arriving at school a short while later.
Back in those days we were all free rage kids, allowed to roam great distances, mostly unsupervised by the adults in our lives, despite what happened to Timmy and the other kids.
It’s forty three years later and I’ve listened to this book. I am utterly shocked by what was really going on at that time; of how near we all were to dangerous predators, literally in our own back yards; and of how much was known by the police and about which nothing was done.
Yes, the story is grim. When is child sex abuse, torture, and murder not grim?
This story is important to hear because knowledge is power. It shows us the reality of a system that, to this day, is rigged to permit wealthy and privileged predators to roam freely and without punishment, committing crimes that ruin and end innocent children’s lives in numbers too shocking to contemplate. This story also shines a bright light on the negligence and arrogance of the Michigan State Police and the Oakland County Prosecutor, who have refused, out of spite, to make every effort to share information with each other and work with other police agencies and the victim’s families to solve these heinous crimes - even now, when we have the technology to do so, they haven’t leapt at the chance to bring the killer(s) to justice.
Let this story move you to hold the police and the prosecutors accountable and demand they do their jobs.
A detailed, thorough reporting of a story that changed my life
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good true crime mystery
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Maddening, chilling, heartbreaking.
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Yikes
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took me a minute but I finished
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I wish this case was solved- TO THE PUBLIC. heartbreaking.
Ugh
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