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.