[Murder Cases listed by perpetrator. Case may be listed by victim if unsolved or with multiple perpetrators]
Oakland County Child Killer p1 - Oakes, Harold murder p1 - Obara, Joli p2 - O’Brien, James & Timothy & Ted Walker et al p2 - O’Bryan, Ronald Clark p2 - O’Callaghan, Ian p2 - Ochoa, Chris & Richard Danziger p3 - Ogorzow, Paul p3 - Oland Dennis p3 - Olive, Marlene & Charles Riley p3 - Ong-a-Kwie, Svenson et al p3 - Onoprienko, Anatoly p3 - O’Reilly, Joe p3 - Ormsby, Thayne p4 - Orr, John Leonard p4 - Orrey, Robert p4 - Ortega, Yoselyn p4 - Ortiz, Juan David p4 - Osman, Kayser murder p5 - Osburn, Kenneth p5 - Overbye, Dagmar p5 - Overlin, Russell p5 - Overton, Hannah p5 - Owens, Matt p5 -
OAKLAND COUNTY CHILD KILLER: Child Killer: Murder in Michigan TV -
For more than four decades someone has gotten away with murdering murder. Others have gotten away with a massive child abuse ring. But what if some of the same people were involved? Child Killer: Murder in Michigan I, Really 2019
Decades of silence are finally broken. ibid.
1976: Mark is a quiet likeable kid … Ten hours later still no Mark … They launch a door to door search … The autopsy found Mark was smothered to death … and he had been sodomised. ibid.
The police investigating Mark’s murder have no idea there is any connection to North Fox island … Michigan state police in St Clare County begin to uncover the grotesque goings on at North Fox island – a boys’ camp for troubled teens. ibid.
Jill Robinson just seems to have vanished … Jill was laying on her back fully clothed and wearing her blue knapsack – There was a gunshot wound to her face … Jill hadn’t been sexually molested. ibid.
Christine: Nineteen days after she went missing, about seven miles from Berkeley on a dead end street in Franklin village, a mailman spots something in a ditch. ibid.
Seven days after the cops’ most promising suspect Christopher Busch was released from custody, 11-year-old Tim King … like all three victims his body was described as being meticulously cleaned … The killer dumped Tim’s body in neighbouring Wayne County. ibid.
A year after the fourth victim Tim King went missing, the largest task force in US history shuts down. ibid.
Brother Paul’s Children’s Mission on North Fox island – a charity to help troubled teenage boys. Child Killer: Murder in Michigan II
A failed polygraph is not enough to arrest Ted Lamborgine. He’s the most promising lead in decades. ibid.
Four children abducted, held captive, and then murdered … What if the killer has been there all along? Few Detroiters can forget the winters of 1976 and ’77 when a shadowy killer held its suburbs in a grip of fear. Four children abducted, held for days, then smothered and dumped in snowy ditches. For their families it’s been a living hell. Child Killer: Murder in Michigan III
What Detective Williams doesn’t tell them [families] is how much he and the task-force already know about 25-year-old Christopher Busch of Bloomfield township … ‘He had been charged for molesting kids in four counties at the same time.’ ibid.
The Kings don’t hold back: they claim the paedophile Christopher Busch, the son of a GM executive, killed 11-year-old Tim, someone the police questioned and released three weeks before their brother was abducted and murdered. ibid.
The hair found on the first victim Mark Stebbins and the fourth victim Tim King share the same partial DNA: they’re likely from the same person. ibid.
For over forty years four Oakland county families have wondered who abducted and murdered their children. Child Killer: Murder in Michigan IV
March 2009: The mislabelled hair … [a passenger of] mechanic, tow-truck driver and convicted paedophile Arch Sloan: that hair matches three hairs found on the first and four victims … So who is the mystery passenger who was riding in Sloan’s Bonnyville in the late seventies? … Contradictory information and years of silence make it harder to know where the truth lies. ibid.
The case has stalled. ibid.
OAKES, HAROLD murder: Great Crimes & Trials of the 20th Century TV - William Boyd -
Bahamas: In the stormy early hours of 8th July 1943 its peace was to be shattered. At this palatial house the body of Sir Harry Oaks, the colony’s richest citizen, was found by his friend, Harold Christie, who had been staying the night. Great Crimes & Trials of the 20th Century s3e7: Sir Harry Oakes, BBC 1996
De Marigny soon became a leader of the island’s younger and faster social set.
So there was considerable scandle when Nancy Oakes revealed that she and de Marigny were not just engaged but had been secretly married in New York. ibid.
De Marigny [son-in-law] was astonished to be arrested and charged with the murder. ibid.
Not guilty by a nine to three majority. ibid.
The obvious framing of an innocent man. ibid.
Sir Harry Oakes was a multimillionaire, the richest man in the Bahamas. He had made his fortune with gold mines he’d discovered in Canada and was seeking to protect it by living in a tax haven. He was something of a local philanthropist but his main concern was always his money and how he could keep it intact and untaxed. On the morning of 8 July 1943 his body was discovered in his bed. Sir Harry had died from blows to the head made with some sort of spiked club. Then his body was covered in petrol, the down from a pillow tipped over it and the bed was set on fire. But, even though the body was badly scorched, the fire didn’t take. All the evidence was there. The local CID made an urgent call reporting the murder to the governor of the Bahamas – who just happened to be the former king of England, Edward VIII, now His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor ...
And so I did, years later, in my novel Any Human Heart (2002). Among the many things the novel contains is a full account of the murder of Harry Oakes, the identification of his murderer and the crucial role played in the case by the Duke of Windsor and how he did his utmost to pervert the course of justice and condemn an innocent man to death. It’s a measure of the enduring infamy and controversy of the case that it was still capable of ruffling feathers four decades later. William Boyd, article The Guardian 13th November 2010