Listeners, stay tuned after the credits for a promo from my friend Josh, host of True Crime Bullshit, a podcast about serial killer Israel Keys.

Don't Talk to Strangers.

From January 1st, 1976 through March 16th, 1977, there were nine children murdered in the Detroit area.

Four of them died at the hands of an as-yet-unidentified serial killer.

If you have not yet listened to previous episodes, please go back and start with those.

We'll be waiting for you.

In episode four, we discussed the disappearance and murder of 12-year-old Jill Robinson.

Jill left home after arguing with her mother on Wednesday, December 22nd, 1976.

On Sunday, December 26th, just four days later, her body is discovered on the site of

Interstate 75 in the city of Troy. She had been shot in the head and left behind in the small hours of the

night. This week, we are back in South Oakland County, along the Woodward Corridor, the hunting

ground of a child killer. Sitting on the corner across from what was my grandmother's house on a tree-lined street at the

north end of Berkeley, I am hit by a wave of nostalgia. The elm trees that shaded the house are long

gone, wiped out in the mid-1970s when Dutch elm disease ravaged them. Baker's Drugstore,

the pharmacy at the corner of Kenmore and 12-mile,

it's long gone. It was a quilt shop for many years, and now it's a home decor store.

My grandparents and their neighbors have all moved on. A new generation of families has taken

up residence in the neighborhood known as St. John's Wood. While I spent large

chunks of my childhood in Madison Heights and in Troy, Berkeley, and particularly this house was my

center, my constant. Some of my happiest childhood memories live here. Although the people I made

these memories with are long gone, when I see my

grandparents' house, a home I haven't set foot in since 2005, it pulls at a cord deep in my chest.

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