North Fox Island was not only a blueprint for Epstein Island. The vanishing/next-to-nonexistent investigation into Frank Shelden and “team” is likewise a blueprint for how the Epstein/Maxwell crimes have been handled to this very day. The steps taken to protect predators in both cases far surpass any investigation on behalf of victims and survivors.
Police and FBI and mainstream media (except for the rare exception–Marilyn Wright with the Traverse City Record-Eagle) have long ignored the sick history of Francis Duffield Shelden. Instead, authors, YouTubers and other documentarians are exposing his crimes and the shoddy investigation.
Law enforcement (and here I mean primarily prosecutors) was protecting high-level/high-society/influential pedophiles who were serviced by Frank Shelden just as Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche, acting on behalf of their client–not the United States, but this president–are scrambling to do now.
Check out this recent YouTube video about Shelden and N. Fox Island:
This scandal is a reminder is of how quickly an atrocity can vanish when wealth and power converge to bury the evidence. It’s also a warning that history doesn’t erase crimes, it just waits for someone to rediscover them.
Is it any surprise that no one in law enforcement ever looked carefully into Frank Shelden? Is it any surprise that no one in law enforcement ever looked into possible connections between Shelden and his “crew” and the OCCK crimes? Is it any surprise that a person like H. Lee Busch, a bigwig at General Motors Corporation could pick up the phone and make an investigation into his son Chris’ involvement in the OCCK or related crimes go away? Pick up the phone and turn Chris’ death in November 1978 into a suicide? Do you honestly think anyone in Oakland County was going to take seriously claims of a pedophile ring operating out of GM corporate and perhaps in one of its most exclusive neighborhoods, Bloomfield Village? They wouldn’t even investigate Chris Busch’s admitted use of the Big Brothers program in Oakland County as a way to mine for victims. They let him go home to his parents’ house in BV and continue raping kids and creating CSAM.
Busch got an even better deal than Jeffrey Epstein. He got probation in four CSC with minor cases in which he pleaded guilty. He didn’t need a Todd Blanche or a Jane Burgess. He just needed Oakland County officials at the highest level to know he knew that they knew what some of their rich constituents were also doing to kids. Case closed.
The handling of the evidence in the OCCK case, the ridiculous chaos of the files, the destruction of files (and probably evidence), ensured there would never be an online, searchable database of documents or any answers whatsoever. Plenty for the true crime community to chew on, but not a single answer or considered explanation for how organized pedophilia in Michigan and the murder of children was allowed to happen with impunity and then “vanish” from the collective memory.
Attorneys for Epstein and Maxwell survivors have stated that there are at least 20 men in those files who committed sex crimes. Fifty years from now I won’t be around to see if history protects these monsters the way Shelden’s “clients” have been protected for half a century.
The documents released so far prove that Epstein’s crimes were reported years before they were prosecuted federally. Survivors who have long maintained they reported these crimes were shouted down and shunned. They have been vindicated.
Let’s get those 20 names, one way or the other. There should be no VIP passes for rich, powerful pedophiles. My guess is they have more victims than the obvious dirtbags. No one should be able to pick up the phone and throw his pedophile weight around just because he works for a big corporation or is a big donor to political campaigns. Reputation is a facade for men like this and they are allowed to use it for protection and as a cudgel.
Enough.
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I’m new to OCCK. I am also averse to brevity. (sorry!)
I am not from Detroit but heard about OCCK after relocating to the area and found all of the players involved to be so confusing to even try to understand what was happening when there was a breaking news story. I tried to read a front page news story and it was written for someone who had been involved for decades (like family and friends of victims or LE and people who effed up or had some skin in the outcome of the breaking news).
My point—- I think 99% of the followers of this blog have years and decades in ahead of me on anything OCCK or FDS related.
But here I go!
First, I can’t believe the names on the second page of Gerald Richards’ Dorian Philosophy and all the names IN THE LE FILES weren’t investigated more than just “yo, you seen Frank?” “Give us a holler if you do, bruh.”
Donald Sandberg was arrested with another pedo in the 90s. So far, that’s the only one I can find who was caught later.
I say all this because I think homophobia had a something to do with it. I’ve recently learned that Ann Wolbert Burgess (a psych nurse researcher in Boston) had to present evidence along with photo evidence of rape victims to the FBI and LE in Massachusetts to get them to realize rape is actually problem. They had to see women battered and injured and hear Burgess’ research from talking to the victims to realize: man, rape IS bad!
I am sure there are people on this blog who already know, already said it, and already posted it, but I am positive the same attitude applied to FDS and the pedo rings especially if the victims were teenagers.
I think the same ideas apply to consent and minors back then too. The way every story calls a missing teenager a runaway or will refer to a teenager as prostitute or street hustler is wild to me!
I think some LE didn’t wanna dig into things that they thought were “homosexual problems” and their own beliefs about consent got in their way. Look how the government responded to AIDS/HIV early on.
If you read this far, change of topic but does anyone know who the heck Nels is on the Richards’ diagram of depravity?
Is it Nels Carlson in Leland or is it one of several Nels in Charlevoix/Boyne City?
I know that page regarding Nels may be difficult to read. And I cannot make out the last word. What I see is:
“Nels was Frank Shelden’s boy lover for many years. His father, Barry Wood, is the contractor from Charlevoix who “built” North Fox Island for Frank. Nels and his boyhood friend know a lot – Nels depends on Frank for (?).”