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foreign well on a very basic level people who are from Detroit simply don't like to
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get pushed around I guess and and I got tired of listening to the rhetoric surrounding the the investigation or the
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alleged alleged investigation into the Oakland County child killings um there there are two possible reasons
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this case was never officially closed and I I don't believe in the first one which which is that the incompetence of
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the investigation uh led to it remaining open for for over four decades now the other the other reason this case was
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never officially closed was that it was not meant to be closed and and I could tell from from the very early on
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listening to the news stories about this case and doing some initial reading there were certain people in positions
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of power who didn't want this thing shut because to shut the case means you have
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to come up with a uh conclusion and but on a very personal level this case anchored in me very early on uh because
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when I was a kid somebody tried to snatch me while I was walking home from the Century Drugs that that used to be
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at uh Evergreen Plaza they called it over at 11 Mile and Evergreen in Southfield which is outside of Detroit
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nothing happened somebody I thought was a security guard had followed me out of the store gotten into his car followed
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me for three blocks and and then later tried to get me into that car I ran away I never told anybody and as an adult I
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started thinking of the time period in which this attempted snatch of me happened and and it was the same time
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period in which the uh Oakland County child killings were occurring 76 77 and the same Mo uh people thought uh
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snatching kid it's from outside little strip malls they speculated that it was somebody acting as in a position of
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power like a security guard or police officer people from Michigan often describe
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their state as a mitten they hold up their right hand and point to where they live on their Palm
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in regards to this week's case they would show you the location of Oakland County by pointing to the base of their
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thumb sounds odd but ask anyone from Michigan and the Hand will come up Oakland county is near Detroit
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in the 1970s it was a county that had very high paid Executives as well as many middle class blue-collar workers
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this combination provided both great schools and a safe environment Oakland county is not famous for the
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schools or the industry it is Infamous for the serial killer who found his prey there
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[Music] foreign [Music] this week we are talking about the case of the Oakland County child killer it is
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a 40 year old unsolved mystery where in 1976 and 77 children were abducted and held for days then they were murdered
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and staged the killer stole these kids off the streets before holding them captive
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he fed them and took care of their physical needs while at the same time torturing them
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the bodies were not tossed out or dumped like garbage killer cleaned them and place them in
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public places the bodies were easy to find but the killer was not what happened to him
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some have speculated that the killer committed suicide taking his secrets to the Grave
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some believe that just like the boogeyman he terrified us and vanished back into the Shadows
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years later people began to wonder was this the work of something bigger something even more Sinister than a lone
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killer [Music] [Music]