The Oakland County Child Killer
What the Hell is the Deal with the Oakland County Child Killer Investigation?
Page one of five. Appeared in Reader’s Digest in March 1977. The fine print is hard to read, but this was an article first appearing in Good Housekeeping in 1972 or 1973. Does this mean anything to anybody? The only haunting vision I’m getting is of the FBI working on this case back in the day.
The Freedom of Information Act has an interesting history. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States), and http://michigan.gov/documents/ag/FOIA_Pamphlet_380084_7.pdf
A very diligent investigator filed a FOIA with the FBI asking for all files concerning the “Doug Wilson” information. Many posts back, I wrote about a witness to the minutes leading up to my brother’s abduction at Hunter-Maple Pharmacy; a witness NO ONE had ever heard about. Yeah, we eventually heard about two women who came forward and saw a man talking to my brother in that parking lot that night, and in a car parked by nearby Adams Elementary School, where my brother and his friends had been playing basketball earlier that afternoon. Here’s the deal with Mr. Wilson. He was a car designer. He knew his shit when it came to cars. He called police in the weeks after my brother’s abduction to tell them what he saw because he knew that little kid with the orange skateboard was my brother.
The FBI spent a lot of time with Doug Wilson. He agreed to be hypnotized. His info was specific and, I have to believe, more accurate than the other two eye witness’ statements about the cars. He was a car designer for god’s sake. This was suburban Detroit. What more do you want? He gave a partial license plate number sequence. Go figure, it didn’t mean shit and no one ever cross-referenced his quite specific information with any other previous tips. You aholes.
But by now the big, bad FBI and the big, bad MSP were involved, and any mistakes made by the previous suburban cop shops were subsumed by the ego, arrogance, and group-think of bigger and supposedly badder agencies. You are all so pathetic. Nobody ever looked at the very beginning, where all this shit started. It emboldened the killers, because at some point they realized they would never be caught. Welcome to suburban Detroit. Seriously.
So, the FBI responds to this diligent FOIA-filing investigator, who shows me the response because it is so lame. These aholes indicate they reviewed 130 pages regarding the “Doug Wilson” information and that they are releasing 12 pages. Those 12 pages are newspaper and magazine articles. These dumb bastards don’t even realize that before they dot the “i’s” and cross the “t’s” on their taxpayer-funded jerk-off response, the Oakland County prosecutor’s office has already responded to my Dad’s FOIA request for all information they provided to local media regarding the “Doug Wilson” information, and we have already read some of the shit they think is so secret because “it may interfere” with the prosecution of someone they have no intention of going after. At least 118 pages were completely “deleted” from their FOIA response.
The pages released to this investigator, who is all over this thing and will not be trampled, are copies of newspaper articles every one of us close to this case has seen, with one exception. These douches also include a copy of a Reader’s Digest condensed version of an article from Good Housekeeping from the early-1970’s. Why this article is in the file is anyone’s guess. I am posting the article next. It is five pages long. Why it is in the FBI file or how it fits into their “investigation” is anyone’s guess. But it stands out like a sore thumb and, god knows, the FBI will never explain why this shit is in their OCCK/Doug Wilson information file.
A reader asked me what I thought of the recent brave escape of Amanda Berry and her child from the home of sexual deviant and subhuman animal Ariel Castro, who held three women he had abducted years earlier in his house of horrors in Cleveland. For me, it is the ultimate triumph of good over evil. In spite of what this piece of shit did to these women FOR YEARS, they lived through it, right under the noses of police who were supposedly looking for them, and Amanda Berry escaped, got help and this weasel was arrested.
I think the bigger question was, what does this kind of case (which is sadly not unprecedented–consider Elizabeth Smart, Shawn Hornbeck, and others) trigger in someone like me? Aside from the obvious–gratitude that these women are still alive, it triggers all kinds of responses. Anyone who suffers from some form of post-traumatic stress disorder, whatever the reason/source, understands. But that said, my response is probably very similar to yours.
Thankfully, the press seems to be treating these women and their families with respect and dignity. What has been revealed about their treatment (which, I can assure you, is completely minimized), makes me think that if it were me, I would have wished every day if I was in this man’s house of horrors, that I was dead. So I am filled with awe that they chose to live.
When I saw his photos online, I wanted to puke. Wielding that power over girls/young women, who he held captive until they turned to women; restrained because he was such a pussy he could only have a woman in his life if he held them captive. He will only be charged with the death penalty if the prosecutor decides to make that charge based on his murder of the fetuses the women he raped were carrying. I don’t believe in the death penalty for reasons that I will gladly debate; however, if the voters of a state believe the death penalty is appropriate for murderers under “special circumstances,” I believe it is appropriate for aggravated sex crimes. Sex crimes sentence the victims to a living death. The perpetrators deserve nothing less.
I’m sorry, but you asked–I feel the moral, legal and ethical issues are addressed fully if a defendant receives a fair trial (after a fair police investigation–good luck with that one) in a sex crime case or a murder case if, after conviction, the defendant is placed in the general population (no special treatment, big boy), for the rest of his life. They are nothing special. If defendants guilty of drug crimes get tossed in the general population, these pussies should get the same treatment. One strike on sex crimes, just like it is for drug crimes or murder, regardless of who you or your daddy is. A drug addict or murderer has a better chance of turning his life around than a sex predator. Your fellow inmates get it better than we do.
Another feeling–oh come on, more “he was such a nice guy, great neighbor, blah, blah, blah”??!! What do you think now that you know what was going on in that house, neighbors?! Hey, let’s have a beer on the porch with old Ariel. Such a friendly guy!
Here’s another thing this horrifying and appalling case triggers for me–the “runaway response.” Cops always want it to be a runaway situation. Sure, just wait another 36 to 48 to 72-hours? I can’t tell you how many people told me in the first 72-hours that Tim “probably just ran away.” That is what people tell themselves so they don’t have to think of the alternative. Even if the person is found to have runaway or ditched out on obligations, isn’t it better to assume the worst and then hope for the best?! It’s a runaway situation–let’s focus on traffic issues for another 36 hours and hope this issue goes away.
This stuff rattles me big time. It makes me sad, it makes me mad, it makes me want to put duct tape over Ariel Castro’s eyes and pull it off, repeatedly, for the next nine years. But that’s not what’s going to happen. He will get a public defender, a fair trial, and life in prison–probably in protective custody. Because that’s the way our system rolls. The parents of Ariel Castro will fare better than the parents of Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight and Amanda Berry. That’s just the way it works.