OCCK & North Fox Island Research Reference Library
Editorial TransparencyThese resources are compiled from FBI FOIA releases, Michigan State Police case files, federal court opinions, the 1977 U.S. Senate hearing record, contemporaneous newspaper coverage, and the work of researchers including Catherine Broad and Marney Rich Keenan. No one has been charged in the four Oakland County Child Killer deaths, and no forensic evidence has publicly tied anyone connected to North Fox Island to those murders. People named as suspects or persons of interest have not been convicted of the killings. Survivors who have not spoken publicly are not named.
Start here: Who Controlled the Information?Fifty years of the Oakland County Child Killer case, told through who held the file and who had to sue to see it.
Read the Article ?01Case Timeline
Interactive Reference
OCCK & North Fox Island: Case Timeline
A chronology of both cases side by side: the North Fox Island operation, the four abductions, the 1977 task force decisions, Francis Shelden’s flight, and fifty years of records fights, prosecutions, and leads.
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Key threads
The abductions · the Busch clearance · Shelden’s flight · the families’ records fights
Source attribution
Every entry carries its source
02Who’s Who
Reference Document
Who’s Who: OCCK & North Fox Island
North Fox Island principals, OCCK suspects and persons of interest, the prosecutors and officials whose decisions shaped both cases, and the four children. Documented overlaps between the two cases are marked, and unproven connections are flagged.
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October 2026 corrections
Gerald Richards died in 1994, not 1998. The Richards diagram label reads “Barry Wood,” not “Barry Moore.”
October 2026 additions
Dyer Grossman’s active warrants and Netherlands location · Arch Sloan’s June 2026 death · the Busch family payoffs · Ess Lake · the 1988 State Police extradition memo
03The Map
Geographic Reference
OCCK Woodward Corridor Map
All four abduction sites, all four places the children were found, and documented suspect locations along the Woodward Corridor between Ferndale and Birmingham. Filter by category and open any pin for case file detail.
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04Reading List
Research Guide
The Reading List: Primary Documents, Books, Press & Media
Primary documents first, including the State Police FOIA volumes, the FBI file on Shelden, and Richards’ Senate testimony, then the books, broadcast investigations, and family archives that built the public record.
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05The Richards Diagram
Primary Document, Digitized
The Richards Diagram: “Dorian Philosophy,” DigitizedNew
The hand-drawn network map Gerald Richards produced in 1977, shown beside a clean redraw. A node explorer checks each part of it against FBI files, State Police reports, court opinions, and contemporaneous reporting, and marks what is still undocumented.
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Key findings
Richards labeled Shelden an “Author” and contributing writer in 1977 · a Charlevoix family on the map also appears in Shelden’s 1976 trust
Protections
First names of people who may have been children are withheld · initials are not identified
06The Reporting
The Machinery
The Oakland County Child Killer investigation after 1977: who controlled the information, who had access to whom, and what the record shows about the decisions.
- Part I: Who Controlled the Information?Oct. 3, 2026
- Part II: Who Had Access to Whom?Oct. 19, 2026
- Part III: Which Theories Got InvestigatedComing Oct. 20
- Part IV: Fact by RepetitionComing Oct. 24
Fled, Not Gone
Francis Shelden after North Fox Island: the federal court record of a fugitive who kept signing his name in Amsterdam, and the people and money around him.
- Part I: The Paper TrailOct. 18, 2026
- Part II: The Trustee and the Pen NameComing Oct. 22
- Part III: The MoneyComing Oct. 26
- Part IV: The Interlochen QuestionComing Oct. 28
Earlier Reporting
- North Fox Island: The Fifty Years Are the Story. Where Is the Accountability?Sept. 22, 2026
- Interlochen Had Something to Hide. Michigan’s House Made Sure Nobody Looked.July 30, 2026
- From These Cases to the Federal Bench: The Officials in the Michigan Murders RecordJuly 5, 2026
- Michigan’s Worst Prosecutors, No. 2: Robert F. LeonardJune 21, 2026
- North Fox Island and The Warrant That Came Too LateMay 29, 2026
- The Staged Scene: The Forensic Evidence and Christopher Busch’s DeathMay 26, 2026
- The Pattern Doesn’t Stop: Grosse Pointe, North Fox Island, and Michigan’s Documented Elite Child Exploitation ProblemMay 24, 2026
- We Need to Talk About EpsteinMay 23, 2026
Evidentiary StandardEvery resource applies Clutch Justice’s standard evidentiary discipline: claims are sourced to a named document, record, or outlet, and editorial assessment is labeled as such. The connection between the OCCK case and North Fox Island is investigative, a documented overlap of people, networks, and timelines, not a proven evidentiary link. The OCCK cases remain open.
What These Documents Are NotThese are research references, not legal findings. Inclusion of an official, investigator, or agency reflects a documented role, not wrongdoing. Researchers, journalists, and family members using them as a starting point should verify claims against the primary sources linked in each resource.
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