They solve cold cases using DNA testing.

They just wouldn’t do it in the OCCK case.   And they won’t explain to the public why they won’t.

I just caught some rereleases of the Children of the Snow documentary on a YouTube crime channel that popped up in my feed.  The documentary was initially released in early 2019 and still airs on Hulu and Apple TV.   The comments reflect the typical responses–wow, I live/lived there and never knew about these crimes; what heinous crimes, those poor kids.  It makes for “good” video because the crimes are shocking, the previously unknown details about the investigation are shocking, the treatment of the families of the victims is shocking.

But what’s more shocking is that in the seven years since that documentary first aired, the case has languished under the same corrupt weight that it always has.  What’s shocking is that a very few of us have had to fight like motherfuckers to get the state lab to do what should have been done seven years ago.  What’s shocking is that even as the Epstein case becomes a daily discussion point, N. Fox Island/Frank Shelden and other “historic” Michigan pedophile rings, remain buried.

In the almost seven years since that documentary aired, more books have been published about these crimes and many podcasts and YouTube videos have aired.  Not a fucking thing has moved the needle in this case.  Not a single POS public servant has answered a single fucking question about the status of the case.  I will have much more to say about these people in the next few weeks.  I told the Oakland County Prosecutor’s office that this is the last Christmas I will spend operating under what is essentially an NDA while we wait for someone to do the right thing.

This chopped up version of Children of the Snow on YouTube does not give the original air date as far as I can tell.  Seven years have passed since that documentary first aired and the case remains a fly in amber.  How about mentioning that in your YouTube description?

As the 50-year mark is reached in the unsolved cold cases annals, people will resurrect past work done on these cases.  That is worthless.  Start asking the hard questions of the state lab, the state police, the prosecutor, the Oakland County sheriff, and every single still-living investigator and detective who touched this case or was exposed to it.  Some will lie, some will have legitimate memory issues, others will keep the information for their book or screen play.  But goddamn it, get these people on the record–even if it’s to say “no comment.”  “No comment” after 50 years is a “fuck you.”

The facts of these cases, the investigative fails and the obvious public corruption and cover-up are horrifying enough.  But anyone who follows this case knows all about that now.  Find out why, after Children of the Snow aired around the world and continues to do so some seven years later, not one of these motherfuckers will go on the record.

You want to ask the hard questions?  I’ll give you an outline.  I’m not recreating the 1,000’s of hours of work reflected in this blog; read it yourself.  But I’ll boil it down for you and point you in the right direction if you want to really address why this case remains unsolved 50 years later.

Here’s a hint:  It’s not because the cops just couldn’t catch a break.

After a 6-year-old boy vanished on his way to a school bus stop one morning in 1979, family members, friends and neighbors scoured the gritty, industrial back alleys and streets of Lower Manhattan for miles.
— Read on www.yahoo.com/news/articles/46-years-family-thought-had-120103515.html

That was a comment to a YouTube segment with an Epstein/Maxwell survivor.

I am slowly making my way through the late Virginia Roberts Guiffre’s memoir, published posthumously last month.  Early on in the book it becomes clear to me (and I admit I have biases different than the average reader) that she was forced into silence by at least two of the predators who raped and sexually assaulted her and that she was legitimately fearful of many more.  The machine behind one of these men, and the evil litigiousness of another, I believe forced her into an arrangement where she ultimately said “no, nothing to see here.  Perfect gentlemen.  I was mistaken.”

I’m sure many threats were made by Epstein and his predatory participants to try to ensure silence.  The fact that Epstein ended up “suicided” in the New York Metropolitan Correctional Center was a clear a sign as any that anybody could be quieted.

As Giuffre’s collaborator/ghost writer Amy Wallace explains in the opening note, “several of the characters in these stories were among the wealthiest and most powerful in the world.”  Some of them “had already threatened Virginia to keep her quiet,” and the book had to be written in a way “to protect her from those who would have preferred she stayed silent.”

Guiffre explains of the men she was trafficked to:  “I saw these men–endured them–up close.”  (p. xxiii)  A name that comes up with fair regularity is that of Epstein attorney Alan Dershowitz.  This piece in Substack by Ellie Leonard addresses what I have long suspected–that Guiffre was forced to “forget” a few of these men.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-179920517

I doubt very much Guiffre committed perjury, or was “mistaken,” as alleged by Dershowitz.  But we are to believe he was just a criminal defense attorney providing someone their constitutionally guaranteed right to counsel and keeping his underpants on during massages.  Let’s hope so–the alternative is too disgusting to ponder.

But again I come back to the men who flew to Frank Shelden’s N. Fox Island when “boys nature camp” was in session.  How many of them were up there to hunt deer and have lively discussions with the brilliant Frank and his sidekick/gym teacher Gerald Richards?  “Hey, I think I’ll turn in early, leave my underwear on, and do a little reading so I can get up early to shoot deer.  See you in the morning.”

No amount of “financial gain” could restore to these survivors what was taken from them, compensate for the damage inflicted, or fully quell the constant fear from threats to self and family if they talk.  These types and their attorneys will always use the same old playbook to disparage and undermine survivors, but it’s good to see it being exposed in the Epstein/Maxwell case for the uninitiated and the disbelievers to try to understand how these predators are almost always protected.

When a survivor identifies a predator, odds are pretty goddamn good they have the image burned in their brain.  And if you happen to look a little odd or different, in addition to being gross, it’s easier to pick you out of the line up or to remember.

No one knows a rapist, right?