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The Snow Killings

Inside the Oakland County Child Killer Investigation

by Marney Rich Keenan
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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.

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    June 29, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9781476642048

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    • Library Journal

      August 7, 2020

      Retired Detroit News reporter Keenan has covered the Oakland County, MI, Child Killer Investigation since 2009, when new evidence came to light. In 1976-77, four children were abducted, sexually assaulted, and held for several days before they were murdered and their bodies dumped. While looking into these crimes--still not fully resolved--investigators uncovered a "seemingly endless cesspool of pedophiles" that led to a large pool of suspects. Cory Williams of the Livonia Police Department took up the probe after being assigned a cold case homicide in 2004 that resulted in the discovery of a child pornography ring. Williams and Keenan believe that the most likely suspect was Christopher Busch, the son of a GM executive who successfully kept him out of prison on several child molestation charges. Busch is long dead, having possibly taken his own life; he also likely had several accomplices. 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. VERDICT A moving, well-crafted narrative for true crime buffs.--Karen Sandlin Silverman, Mt. Ararat Middle Sch., Topsham, ME

      Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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