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🗓️ 12 December 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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This is the mid-season finale of Don't Talk to Strangers. The Robinson family thought leaving Detroit for the suburbs would keep them safe. Not long after the move Jill Robinson begins having nightmares, horrific dreams of being shot. Until days before Christmas when she disappears, and the day after Christmas Jill is found murdered, shot in the head. Coincidence or premonition?
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0:00.0 | Welcome to episode four of Don't Talk to Strangers, a long look inside a series of child murders that took place in the Metro Detroit area in 1976 and 1977. |
0:15.0 | Because we are discussing the murder and sexual assault of children, this content may not be appropriate for all |
0:21.6 | audiences. Listener discretion is advised. If you are just joining us now, please go back and listen |
0:34.2 | to previous episodes first. In episode three, we discussed the disappearance and murder of 13-year-old Jane Allen of |
0:41.6 | Royal Oak. Because Alan had history of running away, her case didn't get the attention |
0:46.8 | it deserved in the media. Even after her body was found in the Great Miami River, not far |
0:52.1 | from Dayton, Ohio, her case seemed to be shrugged |
0:55.0 | off like an afterthought. Jane's history of running away, combined with the knowledge that she was |
1:00.1 | hitchhiking, she didn't get a fair shake. Thankfully, Detective Jeff Muncie of the Miami's |
1:06.0 | Burg, Ohio Police Department is still working on her case. Before we dig into this week's story, we need to |
1:13.5 | talk about some of the players. Up until now, I've been sharing the cases and the men suspected |
1:18.6 | in each one, but today, we're looking at other players in this drama, and some of them may surprise |
1:24.5 | you, especially since I'm starting with our setting. South Oakland County. |
1:29.7 | The four confirmed victims of the Oakland County child killer lived in South Oakland County, |
1:34.9 | in towns adjacent to one another, Furndale, Royal Oak, Berkeley, and Birmingham. |
1:40.7 | Each of these cities brushes up against Woodward Avenue. Woodward Avenue is one of the oldest roads in |
1:46.6 | Michigan. It dates back to 1805, and she began just a few feet from the banks of the Detroit River, |
1:53.7 | winding her way north, through Detroit, into what would become Highland Park, then leaving Wayne County |
1:59.0 | for Ferndale, Royal Oak, Berkeley, Birmingham, Bloomfield, |
2:02.6 | Pontiac, neatly slicing through Oakland County, and if you aren't from the area, |
2:08.0 | Woodward is the answer to many a trivia question, as Woodward Avenue was the location of the |
2:12.9 | first mile of concrete paved roadway in the United States. It makes sense that as people settled in Detroit and later expanded into the suburbs, that the area along Woodward became heavily populated. |
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