Overview

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.

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Author:   Marney Rich Keenan
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781476684000

ISBN 10:   1476684006
Pages:   283
Publication Date:   13 July 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments 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

Reviews

Each chapter reads like an in-depth newspaper article, and while the shifting time periods can be confusing, this is a page-turner nonetheless. Readers will ache for the family members of Mark Stebbins, Jill Robinson, Kristine Mihelich, and Timothy King, and be outraged at the incompetent and seemingly petty divisiveness of the investigators. ...A moving, well-crafted narrative for true crime buffs. --Library Journal

Author Information

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.

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