North Fox Island
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North Fox Island is an island in Lake Michigan more than 15 miles from shore. A child pornography ring was operating there in the 1970s.[1][2][3]
Overview
The proprietor of the island, Francis Shelden,[4] with help from Dyer Grossman, Adam Starchild, and Gerald Richards, created a fraudulent charity they named Brother Paul's Children's Mission as a cover to fly boys in Shelden's private plane to his island retreat.[5] The Detroit Free Press published a feature story in their weekend magazine on Shelden and the island,[6] then published a second story when the crimes were uncovered.[7] Initial investigative reporting was by the Traverse City Record-Eagle reporter Marilyn Wright.
Just think if the story hit the press today, the outrage and outcry that would happen?” But there was no outcry back then and the lid is tighter on this file than it is on the OCCK file. I can only surmise this is because the many perpetrators were the kind of people who had money—and a lot of it–as well as power and prestige. And their victims were powerless.[8]
Two suspects were indicted for the North Fox sex ring: Shelden and Richards. Shelden was never convicted, having fled the United States for the Netherlands in 1976, and was reported dead in 1996. Richards, a schoolteacher, served a term for child pornography charges and was arrested again on child porn charges in 1988 before killing himself in 1998.[9] The crimes have long been suspected to have ties to the Oakland County Child Killer case, which involved the unsolved murders of four children in 1976–77. O.C.C.K. suspect Christopher Busch was a known subscriber to the North Fox Island ring, and investigators also believe that the perpetrator of the Oakland County killings could have been someone who victimized the group.[10][11][12][13]
References
- ↑ http://archive.today/2025.04.26-230614/https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-north-fox-island-francis-shelden-2019-8
- ↑ Wright, Marilyn. "Police Link Island to Porno Ring," Traverse City Record-Eagle. 11 December 1976
- ↑ https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/51083NCJRS.pdf
- ↑ Francis Shelden Part 01
- ↑ Wright, Marilyn, "Tax Loopholes Aid Porn Ring," Record-Eagle, 5 April 1977
- ↑ Neubaucher, Jim. "North Fox Island: One Man's Rare Dot in the Universe," Detroit Free Press. 28 December 1975
- ↑ "Lake Hideaway Suspected as Homosexual Boys Camp," Detroit Free Press. 12 December 1976
- ↑ https://catherinebroad.blog/2013/03/12/north-fox-island-circa-1975-76/
- ↑ The Clown and the Candyman podcast, episode 3.
- ↑ http://www.truecrimediary.com/index.cfm?page=cases&id=132
- ↑ https://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/children-of-the-snow-uses-dna-to-shed-light-on-cold-oakland-county-case/article_ba75ddaa-8fdc-5dc8-8cf3-6d3995d6fbe0.html
- ↑ https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2019/02/14/investigators-believe-oakland-county-child-killer-could-have-been-victimized-by-pedophiles/
- ↑ https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/conspiracy-north-fox-island-the-oakland-county-child-killer-part-1-2/