OCCK & North Fox Island Research Reference Library
Editorial Transparency
These resources are compiled from public case files, court records, investigative journalism, and named sources including Catherine Broad’s Oakland County Child Killer blog, Marney Keenan’s The Snow Killings, FOX 2 Detroit, Michigan Advance, and MSP case file documents. All evidentiary claims are sourced to the document or outlet that reported them. Individuals identified as suspects have not been convicted of the OCCK murders. Cases remain open. These documents are research references, not legal findings.
Start here: We Need to Talk About Epstein.
A Michigan lawmaker was stripped of her committee assignments for asking the House to investigate a documented predator’s access to children at a northern Michigan institution. The intro post to this series.
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Case Timeline
Interactive Reference
OCCK & North Fox Island: Case Timeline
A searchable, filterable chronology of the Oakland County Child Killer investigation and the North Fox Island child pornography operation from 1971 to 2026. Covers the four murders, the suspect network, the investigation’s documented failures, prosecutorial decisions, FOIA battles, and unresolved threads. Adapted from D. Lightfoot’s OCCK Timeline (2020) with significant expansion through current developments.
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Filter Categories
OCCK Murders · North Fox Island · Named Suspects · Investigation · Prosecution · FOIA & Litigation
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Expandable detail panels on every entry · Decade navigation · Live search · mtDNA evidence entries · Feb 2026 FBI FOIA lawsuit
Key Threads Covered
Christopher Busch · Gregory Greene · Arch Sloan · Vince Gunnels · Francis Shelden · North Fox Island operation
Source Attribution
All entries sourced · Primary documents cited where available · Speculative entries labeled as investigative theory
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Who’s Who
Reference Document
Who’s Who: OCCK & North Fox Island
A structured reference on the named individuals in both cases: the four OCCK victims, the primary suspects and their documented connections to North Fox Island, the law enforcement and prosecutorial figures, and the institutional actors whose decisions shaped the investigation. Includes a documented-overlap analysis of what connects the two cases and a plain-language statement of what has not been established.
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Profile Categories
OCCK Victims · Primary Suspects · Law Enforcement & Prosecutors · North Fox Island Network · Institutional Actors
Documented Overlap
Six documented connection points between the OCCK investigation and the North Fox Island operation — each sourced to named evidence or reporting
Includes Recommended Sources
12 vetted research sources: Keenan’s The Snow Killings, Broad’s blog, Appelman’s The Kill Jar, WXYZ-TV, StoryMap JS, Flourish data viz, and more
What Is Not Established
Explicit disclaimer on what has not been forensically or prosecutorially established — the connection is investigative, not evidentiary
Evidentiary Standard
Both documents apply Clutch Justice’s standard evidentiary discipline: every claim is sourced to a named document, report, or outlet. Where evidence is contested, the contest is named. Where findings are investigative theory rather than established fact, they are labeled as such. The OCCK cases remain open and unsolved. No person identified as a suspect in these documents has been convicted of the murders.
What These Documents Are Not
These are research reference documents, not legal findings, not accusations, and not conclusions. They are compiled to help readers follow the Clutch Justice Michigan Accountability Series with the same source context the reporting draws from. Investigative theory is labeled as such throughout. If you are a researcher, journalist, or attorney using these documents as a starting point, verify all claims against primary sources before acting on them.
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