-It was doomed from the first day

[Helen Dagner]

This is how I feel about the 35yr long Oakland County Child Killer Investigation-It was doomed from the first day when the original task force shut down, because year after year and task force's commander after task force's commander looked at the Occk cases, with the same set of eyes as there predecessors-not one stepped out of the box-they just kept re-working the same old files, not giving a thought to it not working-after all these LE buddies-were not only their friends-they worked with them everyday on other cases-If they said ...that they did a thorough job, then why question it further-they just excepted it-I just really have a hard time with this, I am still looking for that piece of paper that may have fallen to the floor and no one notice it-Each of the men who became the keeper of the Occk files, well they all were exposed to a lot of new info-yet they choose to reject it....because it didn't match what they believed the facts were-I shake my head every time I think about this-How is it possible that so many LE could have worked on these cases and never come up with any new facts? Even 35 years after the murders, no one in LE even knows what the facts are--neither do any of us--But, we all know one thing that never seems to change and that is-The Oakland County Child Murders of 1976-77 -are still unsolved in 2011-and basically that is the only known fact, as we sit here today--What happen to make these cases so insoluble?--There was no cover-up...no pay offs-no one turning the other way-because if this had happen -I would know-I would have found it sometime during my 20 years of looking in to these cases...as I didn't just have good contacts...I had GREAT contacts! So how is it that everyone who worked on these cases were on a train to nowhere?-When you look at the off duty time spent working on these cases by people like Det.Anger-Tobias and Cory-giving their hearts and souls-day after day, year after year-why could they not make the pieces of the puzzle fit?I think and I feel in my heart the right questions were not asked of the right people-that they all had their own preconceived notion of who the Occk was-and they just couldn't let go off it -You have to fit the person to the crime: you can't change the crime to fit the person-as the Round Hole-Square Peg Theory...has never worked yet!