Episode 8 - The Ring

Don't Talk to Strangers

Nina Innsted

True Crime

4.6 • 751 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 1976 law enforcement in Michigan uncovered a pedophile ring operating on North Fox Island, a privately owned property in Lake Michigan. Operating under the name “Brother Paul’s Children’s Mission” activities on North Fox Island allowed wealthy men like Dyer Grossman, Francis D. Shelden and their accomplice, Gerald Richards access to underprivileged kids who were sent to the island for a “camp experience”. This episode also uncovers a similar operation in Tennessee run by “Father Bud” and discusses the efforts of “Adam Aristotle Starchild” to assist men like Shelden in fleeing the country, and charges of sexual assault against young boys, while protecting their financial assets.

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Nina Innsted, writer/host
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0:00.0	Don't Talk to Strangers.
0:09.0	Welcome to Episode 8 of Don't Talk to Strangers,
0:12.0	a long-form look at the Oakland County Child Killer and the nine child murders that occurred in the Detroit area between January of 1976 and March 1977.
0:24.6	If you have not yet listened to previous episodes, please go back and start there. We will be waiting for you.
0:34.6	In our last episode, we spoke with Chris King, brother of Timothy King, about the night Tim went missing.
0:40.6	We will return to Tim's story in our next episode, but first, we need to have an uncomfortable conversation.
0:48.0	We're going to delve into a subject that no one wants to explore.
0:53.5	This week's episode covers organized pedophile rings operating in Michigan during the 1970s
1:00.3	at the time of these child murders.
1:03.2	We will discuss how they work together to secure children to abuse, how they recorded the
1:08.2	children being abused and sold the images and film for profit.
1:13.5	These men also went to great lengths to avoid detection.
1:18.5	In earlier episodes, we talked about Christopher Bush, the 25-year-old son of General Motors
1:24.0	chief financial officer H. Lee Bush, how Bush has a record of sexually assaulting
1:29.5	children, how Bush admitted to police that he sought out children for sex, and how passing a
1:35.4	polygraph while in police custody in Flint, allowed police to release him from custody.
1:41.8	There are a couple of other points to mention about Chris Bush. One, in February of
1:47.7	1977, he was caught in the Flint area with eight roles of film, and on that film were photos
1:54.1	of children in sexual situations. These were pornographic images of children. Keep in mind that what would today be labeled as child pornography
2:03.8	was not necessarily illegal in 1977.
2:08.6	In fact, a freshman legislator, Larry Burke Halter,
2:13.0	a Democrat from Lapeer,
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