Don't talk to strangers.

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

Some were assaulted in their homes, others

taken off the street. If you have not yet listened to previous episodes, please go

back and start there. We will be waiting for you.

In our last episode, we discussed the unsolved rape and murder of 10-year-old Valerie Bishop.

Valerie lived with her family on Detroit's west side. She was beaten, assaulted, and stabbed,

then buried in the snow, left to die beside the garage of an abandoned home just down the block

from the house she shared with her mother and siblings. While an arrest was made in her case, the suspect, 30-year-old former Detroit police officer

Moses Potter, was released and the investigation went cold.

Valerie's case was not picked up by the Child Killer Task Force.

Today, in 2019, 42 years after 10-year-old Valerie died alone in an alley, we are hopeful that the

Detroit Police Cold Case Squad will take another look at her murder and possibly bring long-awaited

answers to the Bishop family.

Today, here in Michigan, it's the start of February, and friends, it's cold.

It's that special kind of Michigan cold that a native will recognize right away.

Temperatures in the teens, the air sharp and cutting.

The sky is gray and unwelcoming, and when the sun shines, it's a pale, watery sunlight, it's not rich and

sustaining, and it's not warming. These unforgiving days, this weather, it can last for weeks

at a time, leaving us bundled up indoors, the air depleted of moisture, our skin dry and taut.

March 14, 1977 ended a long cold snap, and instead of being chilled to the bone when you left

the house, daytime temperatures crept into the 50s, which, after weeks of teens and 20s,

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