The Green Oak (Michigan/Livingston County) Police Department posted this on Facebook yesterday:

Tomorrow, August 31st, marks the 40th anniversary of a dark day in our community’s history. Local teen, Shawn Moore was abducted from the area of Lee and Whitmore Lake Roads by a serial predator. Thanks to the the quick actions of former GOPD Officer Ostrem as well as help from state and federal law enforcement, the suspect was quickly apprehended. He was charged with Shawn’s abduction and murder as well as the murder of Kenny Myers, another teenager from Ferndale that occurred a year prior. The offender is still in prison where he will spend the rest of his life.

Today, we hold their families close to our heart and think of all of our colleagues who no doubt think of these young men frequently.

That sadistic, serial predator is Ronald Lloyd Bailey, 66, a monster whose sex crimes against younger boys began in 1972 and escalated to abduction, rape and murder over the course of the next 12-plus years.

https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Ronald_Lloyd_Bailey

Some investigators in the OCCK case have considered Bailey a possible suspect over the decades, but I’m not sure any of these investigators pinpointed Bailey’s whereabouts in 1976 and 1977; times when he was doing off-and-on stints at a reform school and later a psychiatric hospital. At some point in 1977 Bailey’s psychiatrist (and an alleged sex partner), Dr. Jose Tombo, recommended that he be released and remanded to community service for five years, while continuing his therapy. Nor could investigators explain the abduction of two girls in the OCCK crimes when Bailey clearly victimized boys, except to say that, after almost 50 years, and millions of dollars, they can’t even confidently say all four OCCK murders are connected.

As part of his insanity defense at trial, Bailey focused on the alleged abuse by Dr. Tombo while he was a resident at The Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital.

I agree with a reader that there is a good possibility Bailey was more involved with other OCCK persons of interest than anyone will ever let on. Was Bailey (born in 1959) victimized by an OCCK suspect? Bailey started his sex crimes very young (age 13), but as he got older he frequented Ferndale, the Cass Corridor, and the Gas Station Bar.  He was no stranger to Oakland or Wayne Counties.

Here is an article from a decade ago in The Livingston Post–Remembering Shawn Moore, 30 years later: When Livingston County lost its innocence.

https://thelivingstonpost.com/remembering-shawn-moore-when-livingston-county-lost-its-innocence/

The article ends: “Rest in peace, Shawn. We’ll never forget you.”

While I am not on social media, no one has ever sent me a link to a post by any of the hometown PDs of the OCCK kids, Ferndale, Royal Oak, Berkley or Birmingham, with anything like what Green Oak PD posted yesterday in memory of Shawn. Oakland County and every agency affiliated with the OCCK investigation would like you all to continue to forget these kids and to pretend the place never lost its innocence. (Keep up the “good” work, y’all.)

A reader sent me some links to public documents this morning and I initially decided not to post them, mostly for reasons involving not wanting to deal with reader response and the numerous issues raised by this situation. But then I carefully reread the 2009 unpublished Michigan Court of Appeals decision noted below. And I thought about Wayne State University. And I decided to post.

I’m not going to tell you what to think. I’m just going to lay it out for you. If you want to comment, please read the entire court opinion before you do (including the two footnotes).

This Ph.D. candidate and student employee of Wayne State is focusing his studies on social narratives and discourse regarding sex and sexuality and the harms they perpetuate. He describes his candidacy and focus as resulting in part from an “unanticipated experience with the criminal legal system.” https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/gu8565.

This is the “unanticipated experience”:

https://law.justia.com/cases/michigan/court-of-appeals-unpublished/2009/20090217-c281376-66-281376-opn.html

This “unanticipated experience” was a result of sex crimes committed when he was 27 and 28 against two 14-year-old boys. This unanticipated experience resulted in a conviction after a trial by jury, a rejected appeal and a permanent placement on the Michigan Sex Offender Registry.

I can’t help it, but Wayne State University mostly makes me think about the late Frank Shelden, who attended as a graduate student in the Geology Department. Here’s what A.I. told me about Shelden and his connection to WSU:

Did Francis D. Shelden work for Wayne State University?

No, Francis D. Shelden did not work for Wayne State University, but he did earn a master’s degree there

. While Shelden was a student, a news report from 1977 indicated he also had a short-term teaching role at the university. 

More details about Shelden’s connection to Wayne State University:

• He received a bachelor’s degree from Yale in 1950 and later a master’s in geology from Wayne State.
• He also took classes toward a doctorate in geology at Wayne State.
• In the 1970s, Shelden was identified as a central figure in a child sexual abuse and pornography ring.
• A 1977 news article about the ring noted that Shelden “taught at Wayne State for a time”. However, records from Find a Grave and Justia Law, which document his education and legal affairs, only mention his student status at the university. 

Disclaimer: This information is provided for context regarding Francis D. Shelden. He was a convicted child pornographer and is a highly sensitive topic. Use discretion.

AI responses may include mistakes. For legal advice, consult a professional. 

“Use discretion.” “Highly sensitive topic.” “Unanticipated experience with the legal system.” “Fucking unbelievable.”

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