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I don’t check reddit regularly, so thanks to a reader for sending this link. Screen shots might be in order, as comments/posts are often deleted from reddit threads.
A brief trip back in time via the Leelanau Enterprise, 1944-1975.
Did you check out the comments to my blog post of January 30, 2026?
Yes, the Leelanau Enterprise was quite the chatty little newspaper. A reader who has done massive amounts of work collecting background on many of the people whose names appear in this blog, sent this compilation of writings from the Enterprise from 1944 to 1975. They include connections between Frank Shelden and the Grosvenor and Niessink families, as well as with several other families.
Leelanau Enterprise articles (1)
They show, among other things, that Shelden attended his friend’s daughter’s graduation from Interlochen on June 11, 1970. No big deal, right? Did he help pay Mary Grosvenor’s tuition/fees at Interlochen? Did families in Northern Michigan help protect Frank Shelden? We don’t find the answers to those two questions in the writings, and no one ever asked.
Jeffrey Epstein was a camper at Interlochen the summer of 1967. Epstein was 14 years old and played the bassoon. He attended that summer on a scholarship and returned as a major donor 23 years later. Nothing here connects Epstein and full-time student Grosvenor, nor does it connect Epstein and Shelden. But it does connect Shelden to Interlochen through the Grosvenor family.
It does put Epstein’s and Shelden’s feet on the ground at Interlochen. It is not a stretch to say that men like this would exploit any connection to young people (or their siblings). We know Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell did. Sharks smell blood; it’s what they do. Even generous sharks. But we know very little about the generous, high-society Frank Shelden.
The geographical silence that consumes Northern Michigan has been pierced by the Interlochen report on sex predators who were employed there, and the Epstein connections. The obscenely manicured silence that has always surrounded monster Frank Shelden will be pierced as well.
One day the backassward omerta at top rungs of the Oakland County prosecutor’s office of 1976-1978 may be pierced as well.
New Mexico is bad. Really bad. But Michigan is worse.
A reader sent me a link to this very interesting report/overview of the Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Rape Ranch in New Mexico.
https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/the-jeffrey-epstein-zorro-ranch-in?r=2fe7t3&triedRedirect=true
The author is Mitch Jackson, a trial lawyer, journalist and legal analyst. I also commend the Substack writing of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Ellie Leonard and Kait Justice; all independent journalists/writers digging deep into Epstein, Maxwell, their “friends,” and the public servants protecting them, among other subjects.
Zorro Ranch is a huge estate in the middle of a New Mexico desert. It is a crime scene that was never searched, unlike Epstein’s Little St. Johns Island or his residences in Palm Beach and Manhattan. Zorro Ranch evaded scrutiny and the reasons for this truly stink. It’s almost as though somebody took a page from the N. Fox Island and OCCK investigation playbooks.
For the TLDR’s out there, consider Jackson’s concluding thoughts:
Step back and look at the shape of this. A man [Epstein] bought a ranch in the New Mexico desert in 1993. The Farmer sisters went to the FBI in 1996. Federal prosecutors cut a deal in 2008 that closed the case. A state attorney general built a charging theory in 2019 and was told to stand down.
Twenty six years of ownership passed and nobody with a badge and a warrant ever walked that property. The first known full search happened in March 2026, seven years after Epstein was dead and four years after the ranch changed hands.
Just like everything else we’ve seen with the failure to released all of the Epstein files and failure to prosecute the perpetrators, this is a story about money, power and institutions. They failed at every level where a man with money and access asked those involved to look away, and the people who paid for that failure were children. New Mexico has a report due July 31 [did not issue today] and a records fight it may have to litigate. Read that report yourself when it lands.
Meanwhile, the world learns of decades of sex crimes against students and campers at the prestigious Interlochen Center for the Arts and summer camp in Northern Michigan. Nearly 50 adults affiliated with the arts institution in the past were alleged to have groomed and sexually assaulted some 70 former students. It went on for many decades.
Today full-year boarding students pay over $81,000 a year in tuition. Day students pay around $46,000 per year. Summer camp sessions range between $2,000 and $10,000. Expensive place. The Jeffrey Epstein Scholarship Fund was in place at Interlochen from 1990-2003. School records verify Epstein funded tuition for at least one specific alumna who accused him of abuse. Investigators found that he paid the tuition of a “small number of alums” overall. Epstein was not a staff member, administrator or on the board of directors. He was a donor predator. That smells like a Frank Shelden.
A reader observing the now known links between Epstein, Maxwell and Interlochen, asked about possible connections between Shelden and Interlochen. Shelden evaded the law enforcement microscope he should have been subjected to. His disturbing connection as a board member at Cranbrook School raises all kinds of questions, as did his affiliation with a YMCA “big brother”-type program and the lovely and generous trips he took young men and boys on. Friends’ sons. None of these affiliations were investigated, and as a result many, many more boys paid the price for decades.
For now all we know about Shelden’s connection with Interlochen is via the society-type pages of the Leelanau Enterprise. There’s not a lot there to piece together about connections between Shelden and Interlochen, but it’s worth a look. Shelden rubbed elbows (at least) with families in Northern Michigan.
It started with a few readers who began the inquiry in comments to a post in January of this year. Start here.