The snow killings : inside the Oakland County child killer investigation

Keenan, Marney Rich 1954- (author.).

Summary: ""Over 13 months in 1976-1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them held for days before their still-warm bodies were dumped in the snow near public roadsides. The Oakland County Child Murders spawned panic across southeast Michigan, triggering the most extensive manhunt in U.S. history. Yet after less than two years, the task force created to find the killer was shut down without naming a suspect. The case "went cold" for more than 30 years, until a chance discovery by one victim's family pointed to the son of a wealthy General Motors executive: Christopher Brian Busch, a four-time convicted pedophile, was freed weeks before the fourth child disappeared. Veteran Detroit News reporter Marney Rich Keenan takes the reader inside the investigation of the still-unsolved murders-seen through the eyes of the lead detective in the case and the family who cracked it open-revealing evidence of a decades-long coverup of misfeasance and obstruction that averted justice for the victims."-Provided by publisher"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781476684000
ISBN: 1476684006
ISBN: 9781476642048
Physical Description: print
273 p.; 25 cm.
Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : Exposit, [2020]

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"The clock was ticking" -- The body of a young boy -- A sinister confluence of events -- The snow killings -- The sick underbelly of the beast -- Offered ten years, he chose three life sentences -- A one in a million conversation -- "This should have solved this thirty-two years ago" -- Suicide or hit? -- A request for witness protection -- "We don't let the tail wag the dog" -- Brother Paul's children mission -- Busch is front page news -- A cover-up and a red herring -- No new evidence -- Obstructing the investigation -- Sloan, Crosbie and comrades -- Finally righting the ship -- Cooper goes rogue -- Trying to make all the pieces fit -- Last resorts -- No such thing as closure.