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#Michigan

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People (5)

  • Dyer Grossman Cornell-educated former boarding-school teacher from Carmel, New York, officer of the Church of the New Revelation, Ocean Living Institute and Brother Paul's Children's Mission, sought in 1976 on sex charges involving Port Huron boys.
  • Francis Shelden Ann Arbor millionaire, owner of North Fox Island and director of Brother Paul's Children's Mission, who fled Michigan charges of sexual conduct with boys in 1976 and died in Amsterdam.
  • Gerald Richards Port Huron teacher and organizer of Brother Paul's Children's Mission on North Fox Island, arrested in 1976 and sentenced to two to ten years, who testified to the Senate in 1977.
  • Gregory Greene Gregory Greene was arrested in January 1977 alongside Christopher Busch for sexually assaulting a boy in Michigan; during interrogation he confessed that Busch had killed a boy at a family cabin near Ess Lake and identified the victim as Mark Stebbins, the first Oakland County Child Killer victim - a confession that was apparently dismissed by investigators at the time.
  • Richard Lawson Richard Lawson was an informant who operated within the child pornography networks of Detroit's Cass Corridor area in the 1970s and subsequently provided key statements to Michigan law enforcement in 1988 and 2005 connecting the North Fox Island pedophile network and Francis Shelden to the Oakland County Child Killer murders, including identifying the killing of Timothy King as captured in a snuff film.

Organizations (1)

  • Brother Paul's Children's Mission Brother Paul's Children's Mission was a summer camp on North Fox Island in Lake Michigan that served as a front for child pornography and prostitution.

Events (1)

  • Oakland County Child Killer Unsolved murders of four children in Oakland County, Michigan (1976-1977) that investigators steered away from leads pointing to organized pedophile rings.

Places (1)

  • North Fox Island Island in Lake Michigan bought by Francis Shelden in 1960 and assessed at 312,000 dollars, site of the Brother Paul's Children's Mission camp exposed after the arrest of Gerald Richards in July 1976.