The Snow Killings, Marney Rich Keenan
The Snow Killings, Marney Rich Keenan
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The Snow Killings
Inside the Oakland County Child Killer Investigation

Author: Marney Rich Keenan

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie

Unabridged: 12 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/10/2020

Synopsis

Over thirteen 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 US 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 thirty years, until a chance discovery by one victim’s family pointed to the son of a wealthy General Motors executive: Christopher Brian Busch, a convicted pedophile, was freed weeks before the fourth child disappeared.Veteran Detroit News reporter Marney Rich Keenan takes the listener 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 cover-up of malfeasance and obstruction that denied justice for the victims.

About Marney Rich Keenan

Marney Rich Keenan is an award-winning reporter and columnist, recently retired after twenty-six years with The Detroit News. She lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

About Carrington MacDuffie

Carrington MacDuffie is a voice actor and recording artist who has narrated over two hundred audiobooks, received numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has been a frequent finalist for the Audie Award, including for her original audiobook, Many Things Invisible. Alongside her narration work, she has released a new album of original songs, Only an Angel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Misty Marie

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 case goes cold for over 30 years until a chance discovery of a suspect; son of a wealthy General Motors execu......more

Goodreads review by Karen

Retired Detroit News reporter Keenan has covered the Oakland County (Michigan) Child Killer (OCCK) Investigation since 2009 when new evidence came to light. In 1976-1977, parents were terrified of letting their children walk alone in the Detroit suburbs after 4 children were abducted, sexually assau......more

Goodreads review by Jeanette

I grew up in Oakland County, MI in the same suburbs terrorized by the Oakland County Child Killer 1976-1978. I was 12 yrs old when it began and 15 when the task force suddenly shut down without another child being abducted and killed. Us kids were told to be home before the street lights came on. We......more

Goodreads review by Leigh

Heartbreaking Cory Williams is a hero. As are so many who fought for the truth of what happened to four innocent children. Unfortunately, villains abound, including in the police force and the prosecutors office. One is left pondering, why? Why would child molesters and killers ever be protected? This i......more

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