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.)
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Cathy said:
“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”
I thought the same thing. As the task force ended, it admitted failure, but pivoted quickly to discuss how they deserved credit in other similar cases. Then 10 years later they had someone write about how hard they worked in doing their job in the book “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”. Not one word from local Police departments. They still stay silent and refuse to cross the blue line.
The dead hand of LBP on their spineless backs even to this day.
Keep reminding your non Michigan viewers that there is zero in the Michigan media about OCCK Case. Zero.
And there will always be zero. Yes, they will acknowledge it. Yes, its been fifty years, what a shame. Then they will turn off the spotlight. In 10 years they will do the same thing.
The print media there does jack shit. I can already hear the lame t.v. reporters: “The Oakland County Child Killer. It’s been 50 years,” followed by the rinse and repeat of their other lackluster reporting. Don’t dig deep; don’t interview any of the reticent law enforcement personnel still living who have worked on the case. Don’t ask for an interview of the head of the state lab. Give them all a big pass.