There's also a misnomer in this case that the four canon cases of the Oakland County child killer,

that these kids were scrubbed clean.

And it's simply not true.

Mark's clothing was dirty.

He was sweaty.

He had clearly been held somewhere for a few days, and he had been repeatedly assaulted.

He also had ligature marks on his wrists and ankles. I'm In today's crawl space, we are replaying an episode from Missing.

It's actually a two-parter.

Part 2 is going to air tomorrow, and it's with our friend Nina Instead of the Already Gone podcast about her series on the Unsolved Oakland County Child Killer Cases.

And this spans the years of 1976 to 1977, and there are at least four victims.

And I believe we speak about more in this conversation.

If you haven't heard of Nina's show, definitely check that out.

There are links in the show notes and her work on this

story is now being aired on her main feed already gone, but it initially aired on a different

podcast feed called Don't Talk to Strangers. Lance, would you make of this conversation?

Well, we love having Nina on whenever she wants to come on.

She's more than welcome to come back and discuss any of this.

We could have gone on and on because this is one of those cases that is so steeped in history.

We're going on almost 50 years at this point.

But Nina is so good at digging into that history and pulling out all the facts and putting together a timeline of not only the victims, but even potential victims, people who have been connected to these crimes.

And even victims who have already had their abuser or the person responsible for their death, that person's already been identified, but what did that do to impact the Oakland County child killing?

So she breaks it down not only from just like, here are the victims and here are the circumstances, but she gives you the whole sense of the story here.

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