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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 U.S. 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 reader 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 coverup of malfeasance and obstruction that denied justice for the victims.
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Prologue
1.¿"The Clock Was Ticking"
2.¿The Body of a Young Boy
3.¿A Sinister Confluence of Events
4.¿The Snow Killings
5.¿The Sick Underbelly of the Beast
6.¿Offered Ten Years, He Chose Three Life Sentences
7.¿A One in a Million Conversation
8.¿"This should have been solved thirty-two years ago"
9.¿Suicide or Hit?
10.¿A Request for Witness Protection
11.¿"We don't let the tail wag the dog"
12.¿Brother Paul's Children's Mission
13.¿Busch Is Front Page News
14.¿A Cover-Up and a Red Herring
15.¿No New Evidence
16.¿Obstructing the Investigation
17.¿Sloan, Crosbie and Comrades
18.¿Finally Righting the Ship
19.¿Cooper Goes Rogue
20.¿Trying to Make All the Pieces Fit
21.¿Last Resorts
22.¿No Such Thing as Closure
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Marney Rich Keenan is an award-winning reporter and columnist, recently retired after 26 years with The Detroit News. She lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Summary
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. Detroit News reporter Marney Rich Keenan takes the reader inside these investigation of the still-unsolved murders.
