Don't Talk to Strangers V 3
Already Gone Podcast
Nina Innsted
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
To mark the 50th anniversary of the still UNSOLVED Oakland County Child Murders, I have rewritten, updated, and re-recorded the 2018 series "Don't Talk to Strangers." I am re-releasing it in the Already Gone feed.
Episode 3 is The murder of Jane Allan, age 13, of Royal Oak.
Written & researched by Nina Innsted. Production support by Charity Dodd. Audio production by Bill Bert.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode discusses the murder and sexual assault of children. |
| 0:04.1 | This content may not be appropriate for all audiences. |
| 0:07.7 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:17.1 | The investigation is proceeding, but I can't say that a suspect has surfaced or nor that an arrest is imminent. |
| 0:23.1 | Oakland County became concerned fearing it might be an ugly pattern developing. |
| 0:27.2 | The consensus that the killer was either dead himself or gone from our communities, possibly never to be found again. In episode two, we covered the abduction and murder of 12-year-old Mark Stebbins of Ferndale. |
| 0:50.3 | Stebbins left the American Legion Hall off 9-mile road headed toward his family home, but Mark never |
| 0:55.9 | made it home. His body would be found days later, left near the side of the road, in Southfield. |
| 1:02.4 | Taking a child from one city and leaving their body in another is a hallmark of this case. |
| 1:07.7 | While the city of Ferndale handled Mark's disappearance, it was Southfield who had the |
| 1:12.4 | murder investigation, and the two departments worked well together, at least until the task force |
| 1:17.8 | took things over. But in February of 1976, we are several months away from the establishment |
| 1:23.9 | of a task force. If you have not yet listened to episodes one and two of the series, please go back and start |
| 1:32.1 | there. |
| 1:34.0 | From late February, when the body of Mark Stebbins was found in Southfield, until mid-August, |
| 1:39.3 | there was a reprieve from the child murders. |
| 1:43.4 | No more bodies left on the side of the road, no more babysitters |
| 1:47.1 | slain and pleasant tree-lined suburban neighborhoods. Things in Metro Detroit are relatively normal. |
| 1:53.7 | We made it through the bicentennial, the July holiday, with our spirits intact. Living in South Oakland County, if you didn't look at things too closely, |
| 2:04.0 | everything appeared normal, but it wouldn't last. Saturday, August 7, 1976, was a perfect summer day |
| 2:12.7 | in Metro Detroit, mid-70s, just enough sunshine and a light breeze. |
| 2:24.7 | It was on this sunny Saturday that 13-year-old Jane Allen of Royal Oak got the notion that she would head north to Auburn Heights to visit her boyfriend. Dressed in a floppy hat, blue jeans, |
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