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Post by Helen Dagner on Dec 18, 2011 4:44:45 GMT -5
Oh Helen, he was a really good kid. It's wonderful to be asked about him, because no one ever asks. Tim was very cute--cute face, freckles, small for his size but very coordinated, usually fairly messy hair, almost always a big smile. The inside matched the outside. He was kind, considerate, very funny and sometimes mischevious (in a harmless way). He would sometimes laugh so hard at something you could barely understand him--he could literally fall down laughing. He loved to tell jokes, but often starting laughing his head off before he got the punch line out. He was clever, hard working and well-liked. Honestly, you couldn't help but like this kid. He was having a great year in 6th grade--he and a friend had gotten first place for their project in the science fair, Tim had gotten a part in the 6th grade play, was playing hockey, skiing once in a while with a friend's family, and looking forward to baseball try-outs. He played baseball for years. He was quite athletic and very coordinated. He got good grades, and was such a cool kid--he worked very hard, but he didn't care about things like -good handwriting--which was a big deal back then. He was saving money for a light blue running suit--that's why he asked me for money that night--he didn't want to use any of his savings. He really appreciated his friends and was wise beyond his years about people's feelings. He was very articulate, which was sometimes wild coming from such a small person. As I said, considerate and kind--he always had ideas of what he wanted to give all of us for gifts at Christmas and for birthdays. He had a lot of energy. He was a pleasure to be around. Tim was closest with my Mom--they had a special bond. He would sometimes just run up behind my Mom and hug/squeeze her around the waist. The rest of us were teenagers by then and of course we didn't do stuff like that anymore. The entire time Tim was held captive, I'm sure in addition to everything else, he was completely beside himself because he knew how distraught my Mom would be about him being gone. My Mom and Tim had actually talked about how with the three of us older kids close to going off to college, he would be an only child for a few years. Nothing would have made my Mom happier. The four of us had normal kid fights, but much less with Tim because he was quite a bit younger. He wasn't a pest or anything like that--we liked having him around. He had a lot of friends that he did stuff with, so he didn't spend all of his time waiting around for us to entertain him. My Dad adored him. We all did. I know I sound like I'm making this up, because often in death people become larger than life, but I am not exaggerating. He was a decent, funny, kind person and anyone would have loved having him as a son. He was a good brother, grandson, nephew, cousin, friend. I know this is true for all of the kids, but the person who killed him had to have ice water coursing through his veins to kill Tim, especially after interacting with him for 6 days. It is truly mind-boggling. After the autopsy, Tim was dressed in a light blue running suit. Like the one he and my Mom would have gone out to buy together if he had gotten the chance to save some more money. we had a private viewing of Tim's body--just the very immediate family. A younger man (not sure what age, but an adult) later stopped by the funeral home at an odd hour sometime later, telling the funeral director that he was a relative and he had driven all night, and could he please see Tim's body? He was of course turned away. We had no male relative driving a long distance to come to Tim's funeral. The cops asked us. Things like this were the reason we waited many weeks to get a grave marker for Tim, because we didn't want freaks coming out to the cemetery. I'm telling you, this is as bad as it gets. Tim's forehead was very seriously bruised. I'm thinking it was the left side, the more I think about it, because his left side was to the wall and usually the funeral directors position the body so that people can't get a good look at injuries. (Although the bruising extended to the center of the forehead.) I saw in one newspaper article that this bruising was mentioned and that someone speculated the bruising could have occurred post-mortem when he was dumped on Gill Road. Maybe it was post-mortem, but I have a hard time believing that. Everyone thinks the babysitter" treated these kids relatively well. Give me a break. He also had a cut inside of his mouth (mentioned in some of the newspaper articles). Where did that come from?! We were told not to cry or show undue emotion at the funeral because of the reaction it might provoke in the killer. As I said, it doesn't get much worse than this. Can you imagine not crying at your brother's funeral? I could go on and on about what my family went through, but why bother, since it is nothing compared to what Tim endured. Like Tenyears said in his recent post, it's better just to think about Tim, not the horrifying aspects of his abduction, murder and the after-shock that affects us to this day. That's what's gotten me this far--my memories of what a good kid he was, and even the thought that he could still be with me at some level........
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Post by Helen Dagner on Dec 18, 2011 4:50:40 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Dec 18, 2011 4:52:03 GMT -5
Part 4
Tim King disappearance & murder, Barry King, LE Brooks Patterson, LE Chief Tobin, LE Robert Turner, Tim's baseball, Helen's documented information about John's situation around the dates of Tim's murder, speculation of the killer's personality, mail carriers asked to look for anything suspicious, Tim last seen standing NEAR blue Gremlin with suspect, and Tim's funeral.
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Post by Helen Dagner on Dec 19, 2011 2:11:36 GMT -5
Police departments in Oakland County were still looking for the killer of Kris Mihelich when, on March 16, 1977, another child disappeared. Timothy King, a slim, attractive ll-year-old boy who lived at 1509 Yorkshire Street in Birmingham, Michigan, was last seen by a member of his family at about 7:40 p.m., when his older sister, Catherine, gave him 30 cents to buy candy at a nearby store. Cather;ine was going into Detroit that evening to see a stage show with some girl friends from her high school; Tim's two older brothers were out of the house, one babysitting for a neighbor's youngster and the other practicing with the cast of a school play; his parents were having dinner at a Birmingham restaurant. As Tim left, he asked Catherine to lea.ve the front door ajar so that he could get back into the house, and when the Kings returned home at 9:00 p.m. they fou;..d the door still ajar and Tim missing. After looking for him in the neighborhood and phoning the houses of friends where they thought he might have gone, they called the Birmingham Police Department. By 9:15 the next morning, the embryonic task force working in Southfield knew the King boy was missing, and Birmingham Police Chief Rollin (Jerry) Tobin had asked for full task force involvement in the case. By afternoon on March 17, a new task force headquarters was set up in the Adams Fire House in Birmingham and was hard at work processing the many reports that concerned citizens were phoning in. Routine investigative procedures established that the salesgirl at the Hunter/Maple drug store!where Tim was to have bought his candy did recall seeing Tim King; he had made the purchase. Further, in an important break, a woman witness came forth to report that at about 8:30 p.m. on the night Tim disappeared she had been loading groceries i.nto her car parked on the lot near the drug store. She remembered seeing a small boy in a rea. jacket with emblems on it (a good description of Tim's red nylon Birmingham Hockey Association jacket) talking to a man standing by a car some two car-lengths
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Post by Helen Dagner on Dec 19, 2011 2:14:19 GMT -5
from her. She was able to describe the man well enough for a police artist to produce a composite sketch of him; further, she thought his car ~as darkblue Gremlin with a white, up swept:. stripe (called a "hockey stick" stripe) along its side. The sketch of the suspect and a photo of a similar car were sent to all local police departments and were available to all members of the task force, now rapidly growing in size as more local detectives. were assigned to the case. Even as investigative activity accelerated, the report that many detectives had grimly anticipated was received. At 11:15 p.m. on March 22, the Livonia, Michigan, Police Department sent a car in response to a call from three witnesses who had discovered a body lying in a ditch on the west side of Gill Street, a tenth of a rule south of Eight Mile Road. The body was that of a boy approximately 10 years old, wearing a red nylon jacket with a BRA crest, denim shirt, green trousers, and white tennis shoes with blue and red stripes. Tim King had been found. Ten feet away from his body was the orange skateboard that he took with him to the store. On the death certificate prepared by Dr. John Smialek and Dr. Werner Spitz of the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office, the cause of death was listed as "smothered." Dr. Spitz's opinion, when he first examined the boy's body at 2:00 a.m. on March 23 was that Tim had been dead from six to eight hours and had been placed along Gill Road about three hours before he was found. The autopsy report showed that he had eaten a meal of fowl about an hour before he was killed. His wrists carried marks that might have been caused by binding, but his body was very clean, including fingernails and toenails. He had been sexually assaulted, the anal region showing clear signs of some form of ~use.
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Post by Helen Dagner on Dec 20, 2011 3:39:14 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Dec 21, 2011 3:06:38 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Dec 22, 2011 0:26:06 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Dec 23, 2011 5:02:41 GMT -5
September 24, 1988 Section: NWS Edition: METRO FINAL Page: 3A;
POLICE: CLIPS ON OAKLAND KILLINGS IN SEX \ CRIME SUSPECT'S COLLECTION JACK KRESNAK Free Press Staff Writer Harold Sellae, a 65-year-old Hamtramck man arrested this week in the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl, kept a large collection of newspaper clippings about assaults on children, including stories about the Oakland County child killings, police said Friday. Because of the clippings and the nature of the alleged sexual assault, State Police detectives on the Oakland County Task Force will check the man's background to determine whether he should be considered a suspect in the unsolved killings of four Oakland County children during the winters of 1976 and 1977. When asked if Sellae is a suspect in the Oakland County cases, State Police Detective Sgt. Richard Rosen said: "Probably not, but when Hamtramck arrested him there were some items that he had in his possession that would tend to make us want to at least have a look at him." Rosen said police will question Sellae about the Oakland County cases next week. "It's something we have to look at, but on the Oakland County Task Force we'll probably get five to 10 tips a year. It's an open investigation and this is just another tip that we're checking out," Rosen said adding that Sellae's name is not on the computerized list of previous tips. Sellae was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with an alleged incident in his public housing apartment in the 12100 block of Dequindre in mid-August. The alleged victim is a 10-year-old neighbor whom Sellae befriended by letting her listen to his radio, said Hamtramck Officer Stan Sadzinski. Sellae is a custodian at a local church and told police he has worked at other schools and churches. He was arraigned Tuesday before 31st District Judge Walter Paruk, who ordered him held in lieu of $250,000 bond, pending a preliminary examination Thursday. The charge carries a maximum term of life in prison. When Hamtramck police searched his apartment they found about 150 newspaper clippings, including reports of attacks, kidnappings, rapes and slayings of children, police said. Victims of the Oakland County kidnap-slayings were Timothy King, 11; Kristine Mihelich, 10; Jill Robinson, 12, and Mark Stebbins, 12. Three were suffocated; Jill Robinson died of a shotgun blast to the head.
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Post by Helen Dagner on Dec 23, 2011 6:21:02 GMT -5
Part 7
The red herring of the OCCK case, blue Gremlin, questionable lead in the investigation from the beginning, clean clothes on victims, clean theory, Dr. Bruce Danto, Robert Robertson Senior, Tim's finger nail scraped, Evidence of a light blue Pontiac Tempest car involved with OCCK.
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Post by Helen Dagner on Dec 26, 2011 11:56:00 GMT -5
TIMOTHY KING ~MURDERED BY THE OAKLAND COUNTY SERIAL KILLER ~OCCK Description: Age 11, of Birmingham, 4 feet tall, 63 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. Last seen: March 16, 1977, at a Birmingham supermarket near Woodward and Maple, where he went to buy candy. He was seen talking to a white man in or near a blue AMC Gremlin in the parking lot. Found: At 11 p.m. March 22, 1977, in a ditch off Gill Road near 8 Mile in Livonia. Cause of death: Timothy was sexually assaulted and died from suffocation. Clues: Timothy was dressed and his body was warm when he was found. A strand of pubic hair was found on his body.
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