Another reader wrote:
I really appreciated the sharp eye and thoughtfulness of your reader whose analysis you posted today. That reader raises some very interesting points.
I want to respond to two of them, and I’m sending them to you rather than posting directly because you can add the attachment if you wish:
1. Ralph Schonebeck had moved to Tucson, AZ (I don’t know when), and died there on June 14, 2003. He was married, had kids and step kids. The obituary, which I’ve attached, states his brother Carl survived him.
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Carl had spent time in AZ, too. He was arrested there for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy.
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2. The Tazelaar-Faxon-Shelden connection really does require more investigation, in my opinion. I do know this:
a. They each were guests at any number of social events, especially at Cranbrook, as chatty little columns in local papers have indicated.
b. Faxon was deeply involved with Interlochen, appearing there often in a variety of different performances; Shelden had strong ties to a family that, in turn, had strong ties to Interlochen; my research has failed to find a Tazelaar connection, though.
c. Tazelaar was a great buddy of Gerald Richards, as was Shelden. I’ve found nothing so far that links Faxon to Richards who, in turn, would be a strong link to Fox Island.
d. Cory Williams’s notes indicate that Tazelaar knew both Shelden and Faxon.
Thanks as well to this reader. I agree that it is a Rubik’s Cube–one little twist changes everything.
Then again, it is like a giant chessboard with so many pieces because there were so many pedophiles, quasi-organized and organized pedophile rings and creators/purveyors of 8 mm and photographic CSAM from that era in Oakland County and all around the State of Michigan and beyond. No one was going after these criminals. It was a festering free-for-all.
We are currently witnessing the largest government cover-up in American history with the Epstein/Maxwell case. I’d say the OCCK case and N. Fox, half a century prior, are right up there with this bullshit protection of pedophiles, their “customers,” and their enablers. It’s why there continue to be so many gaps, so many turns of the Rubik’s Cube.
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I have a newspaper clipping that connects Tazelaar to Interlochen. It’s not an article. It’s like a drawing/advertisement with his name and a mention of an Interlochen cabin.
I will email it to you.
Tazelaar had family from the Netherlands. During WWII someone in his family returned to the Netherlands and was missing and they escaped and came back to MI. I made a mental note that it was odd and sounded like Operation Paperclip or some sort of spy situation.
Tazelaar worked at a theatre camp in its box office in the 1960s called the Pillow Box (or some variation of that name).
I will send all of these to you.
I hope the clips are self explanatory and if not, I can explain them. But I want you get these to you first and assume they make sense.
Is Faxon related to https://www.faxonlia.org/
Faxon School?
Also, Violet is in Farmington, not Farmington Hills.
What is the evidence that Tazelaar is connected to Richards and Shelden? Can that be posted?
I don’t have the evidence, NP. It is not even clear to me that the Tazelaars were even asked about Frank Shelden when things got stirred up post-2005. Joel Gorzen was still alive when this task force got rebooted. Shelden, Grossman, Starchild, and Busch were all being protected back in 1976 and 1977, and it continues to this day. More importantly, their clients were being protected. It’s not a good look for politicians, C-suite men, judges, cops or prosecutors to get busted raping kids or getting off on CSAM. Because law enforcement looked the other way for so long, this shit escalated to murder and no one answered for it. There is no way around this fact. Predators and their enablers have lived long lives after this sick era and died with glowing obits. It’s disgusting.