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Post by Helen Dagner on Jun 9, 2011 18:06:45 GMT -5
Helen, We know that is the case, LE in Michigan to this day is still plagued by territorial disputes. They don't like to share information and of course they are not going to give credit to someone who is not directly tied to the investigation.
-----Original Message----- Sgt.
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Post by Helen Dagner on Jun 10, 2011 4:22:04 GMT -5
You know to send me and email asking if I think Busch had anything to do with these child killings,because you read on another site that he had moved back home where his parents were living-Here is the problem with that statement--he didn't move back home until after all the killings-he was not in the area-when any of the murders took place-
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Post by Helen Dagner on Jun 12, 2011 19:32:40 GMT -5
Helen, He is very interested in meeting with me and what I know of your information. The purpose of the call was to introduce himself to me. He warned me that it will take a little bit of time to get back to me because he has another more pressing case that he is working on (not necessarily more important) and he has a couple of court cases he is involved with. He thought it'd be two or so weeks before he gets back to me and asked that I be patient. I told him that you were really the person that knows the case 1st hand and that I have just been relaying your information . I told him that he would definitely want to speak with you and he said "yes" but he'd like to meet with me first (due to proximity to Lansing, I guess). He did ask where you lived and I told him Xxxxxxx
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Post by Helen Dagner on Jun 14, 2011 8:47:54 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Jun 14, 2011 19:16:58 GMT -5
Embed Copy About this project
Short Synopsis
Murder City Shakedown is a memoir of my cold case investigation into the serial murders of four children in the neighborhoods surrounding my childhood home.
Longer Synopsis
The Oakland County Child Killings (O.C.C.K.) were a series of previously unsolved abduction-murders spanning thirteen months between 1976 and 1977, outside Detroit, Michigan. At least four children were kidnapped, held in captivity from four to nineteen days, and murdered by asphyxiation. Their bodies were dumped in plain sight of main roads, twice within eyeshot of police departments. Two girls and two boys were murdered. The boys each showed signs of having been sexually assaulted post mortem.
Fear and hysteria swept through Detroit and its environs during the abduction periods, inciting what was then the largest murder investigation in U.S. history. A task force composed of hundreds of Detectives worked around the clock, plowed through millions of dollars in resources, and then surreptitiously shut down, claiming lack of funds. No arrests were made, and yet no further related abductions occurred.
At the time, Oakland County, Michigan, fueled by auto industry cash, was home to the wealthiest suburbs in the country. The "Big Three" automakers (GM, Ford, Chrysler) were bigger than Big Oil. Michigan's middle and upper classes lived beneath a golden dome, shielding them from the underworld of Detroit proper, where the most trenchant ghettos in America were only a stone's throw away. The O.C.C.K. killings were the beginning of the demise of that golden dome. The privileged classes of the time began to see their sense of security for what it was, a construction that hadn't so much weakened over time as crumbled overnight, atop them.
Thirty-five years have passed since the first O.C.C.K. murder. The prosperity once enjoyed by Detroiters has become an enigma. Statewide unemployment hovers at around 20%, while unemployment in Detroit proper, as reported by the Mayor's office, has soared to a mind-blowing 40%. The identity of the Child Killer remains elusive, and the environs of Detroit, fallen victim to the encroachment of poverty, have, equally, never recovered from the sense of violence that crept into their homes, and seemingly touched them while they slept.
My memory of the O.C.C.K. era is anchored by an abduction attempt on me. I was seven years old during the winter of 1977, when I eluded a "snatch and grab" halfway between a local pharmacy and my home. The O.C.C.K. task force was fully operable at the time, ransacking the streets for information. I ran from my would-be abductor, hid in a woods for the afternoon, then went home and told no one. As an adult, I became haunted by what might have awaited me in captivity. I am not a journalist, nor memoirist, by nature. My obsessions related the O.C.C.K. murders have compelled me to find closure to both the criminal aspects of the case, and to the equally haunting psychological aspects I, and the environs of Detroit, have inherited in the wake of these crimes.
My fears for the safety of our children come in the midst of an America leading the world in serial killings, and during a time when worldwide revenues related to child pornography and child abduction into sex slavery has surpassed revenues from both the gun and drug trades combined. On a global scale, our children are engaged in a war. It swoops over them, and when it does, they have neither the knowledge of what is happening, nor the ability to fight. On a local scale, I have found it my obligation to take up arms, to draw a blockade around the O.C.C.K. murders, and move in.
In my examination of "one scratch" on the nearly endless table of child abductions we sit at, I mean to understand its whole. What I have discovered in my investigation of these crimes is that the only functional jurisdiction surrounding the O.C.C.K. murders was one of political complacency. The mystery of how these four dead children came to slip through the cracks without recourse has become a representative of the mystery of all like atrocities.
My own sense of loss at the suffering of the O.C.C.K. victims is not unique. We are, each of us, touched by the violence in our world. We bear witness to it, in small or great ways, and become changed.
Murder City Shakedown, in addition to its brazen accounting of the O.C.C.K. crimes, offers a story of how we reconcile ourselves to the insinuation of this violence into our lives.
Funding
I have spent five years obsessively researching the O.C.C.K. killings for Murder City Shakedown. I've poured over thousands of pages of confidential FBI and Police documents, including transcripts of interviews and polygraphs with suspects, original case reports, crime scene analysis, witness statements, autopsy sheets, and personal correspondences between original task force members from the 1970s and current investigators on the case. I have videotaped crime scenes, fact-checked hundreds of news articles, and interviewed surviving family members of the O.C.C.K. victims.
I am currently 200 pages, roughly halfway, into what promises to present the single definitive accounting of what happened to these children, how it was able to be buried for three and a half decades, and who did it.
I have no resources left, and currently live two-thousand miles from the scene of the crimes. In order to finish Murder City Shakedown, I need to cover expenses for an immediate three-month journey to Detroit and other cities, where I will finish my interviewing of family members, police personnel, and original and current suspects (some of them currently incarcerated for other crimes), pay top-tiered forensics and autopsy experts for consultation about my findings, and begin the final stretch of writing on the manuscript, which will take 6 months total, beginning on the day I land in Detroit.
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Post by Helen Dagner on Jun 14, 2011 20:43:35 GMT -5
Helen I think when this guy get's in town, the ship has finally arrived for this case to be solved. Are you going to be ready? Scott
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