This episode discusses the murder and sexual assault of children.

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The investigation is proceeding, but I can't say that a suspect has surfaced or nor that an arrest is imminent.

Oakland County became concerned fearing it might be an ugly pattern developing.

The consensus that the killer was either dead himself or gone from our communities, possibly never to be found again. This week's episode takes us out of Oakland County to the city of Detroit and a copycat

murder that has one family still looking for answers.

In February of 1977, Valerie Bishop was 10 years old.

She's one of six children and a fourth grader at Carver Elementary School in Detroit.

Valerie came from a big family. She had two older brothers, one younger sister, and two younger

brothers.

Their mother is Ida Bishop.

She moved the family up from Alabama a few years earlier.

There were job opportunities in Detroit.

Ida Bishop wanted her children to have options for success,

so they moved into the house on Aurora near the intersection of Wyoming and Plymouth on Detroit's west side.

On February 2nd, Valerie was outside after school.

It was a warm February day in Michigan with temperatures in the mid-30s,

and Valerie, along with her siblings, was out playing with friends.

Her mother was looking for one of the boys, one of Valerie's older brothers, to head up to the corner store, Houston's party store,

to pick up a gallon of milk. When she couldn't find one of the boys, she asked Valerie to run the

errand for her.

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