I mentioned a few posts ago that I recently went through a stack of documents and emails from 2022. Please consider this interesting work, forwarded to me last May. It is part of a project that is/was apparently in the works, but is not yet live online. I have only this entry, but it is worth reading:
Discover more from The Oakland County Child Killer
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I don’t think they have a sauna but the Scarab Club has been around a long time.
Also what about that exclusive northern Michigan club- the Huron Mountain Club- they have a long an odd history.
Cathy, they didn’t mention the Ann Arbor YMCA. Shelden was known to be active there too.
Ann Arbor is in Washtenaw County and the report says Wayne County.
Came across this…. (Looks to be excerpted from the Kill Jar). Maybe it was from investigating his report? No idea why they kept going back to it…
https://crimereads.com/on-the-trail-of-the-oakland-county-child-killer/
Also, it appears the Schvitz was open in 1996. Here is a link to a newspaper article in The Detroit Jewish News from January 1996.
https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1996.01.05.001/28
This Free Press article has some history that’s not in the Jewish News story:
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2017/10/02/detroit-bathhouse-schvitz-purple-gang-mobsters-reopens/721360001/
“In the ’60s and ’70s it had a reputation for being a home to bookkeepers and gamblers and was said to be under FBI surveillance. From the ’80s on it was tethered to a reputation as a swinger club, notorious for raucous parties with films like “Deep Throat” playing in the projection room where guests hunkered down in cushy, leather reclining chairs.”
It also mentions that the Schvitz went into foreclosure in 1976.
I wonder if any of the former owners have ties to any of the known Oakland County creeps like Jack Faxon, Josiah Tazelaar, Everell Fisher, etc? Were any of their child rape parties hosted at the Schvitz? If it was in foreclosure in 1976, it might have been vacant and/or closed to the public. Just speculation.
When I was a paperboy in California in the 1980s, two paperboys were abducted in Iowa. The newspapers I thre for held safety meetings for us boys.(Sacramento Union and Auburn Journal) they told us that important political folks prey on kids, and they suspected that was what happened to those boys and a list of other kidnappings and killings. I’m positive that the Oakland four were on that list. Since we were working in Sacramento and the political pedophiles were pretty active, they wanted us on alert. This was a decade before the internet. One thing that stands out today is that we seemed to know that Steven Stayner (sp?) Was not a political kidnapping, and that turned out to be mostly true. I’m betting there is a political reason they redacted the location.
Wouldn’t there be records of a search warrant?
You would think, but they were not in the FOIA response.