Murders at Tody Lake

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

True Crime, Mystery, Missing, History, Murder, Truecrime, Unsolved

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

May, 1975, two cousins, Scott Hardy and Mark Mellendorf walk from Mellendorf's home in Lapeer County Michigan to Tody Lake for some fishing.

When the boys don't return home, their parents raise the alarm and searchers scour the woods for hours trying to find the young boys. The next morning, a tracking dog makes a horrific discovery on the southern end of the lake. Both boys are dead and there is a killer on the loose in this idyllic community.

Days later a second boy, Willie Walters, takes his fishing gear to Kearsley Creek, he too doesn't return. His battered body is discovered the next morning.

These horrific crimes happened just a few miles north of the hunting grounds favored by the Oakland County Child Killer in 1976-1977.

#Michigan, #Murder, #OCCK

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0:00.0	You are listening to the already gone podcast sharing stories of the missing, the murdered,
0:12.4	the mysterious, and the lost.
0:15.0	Back in episodes,
0:21.0	back in episodes 36 and 37, released at the start of 2017, I discussed the four murders associated with the Oakland County Child Killer.
0:30.0	These killings, which took place between 1976 and 1977, changed childhood for thousands
0:37.5	of kids living in Oakland County.
0:40.6	As I've researched the murders, I was struck by how many other children were killed in the area and the years before and after the time frame associated with this killer or killers.
0:52.0	I use the plural because I am no longer convinced that one person was responsible
0:56.8	for the deaths of Mark Stevens, Jill Robinson, Christine Mehalek, and Timothy King.
1:03.0	There is evidence connecting the deaths of Stebans and King, but what about the girls?
1:09.0	Jill and Christine did not suffer the same fate as the boys while they were held captive.
1:14.4	And three of the four victims share smothering as a cause of death, but Jill Robinson was shot
1:19.0	in the face at close range.
1:23.0	When you look at other children from the area who were taken or murdered between 1972 and 1979,
1:29.0	the numbers are sobering.
1:31.0	Donna Sarah.
1:32.0	Cynthia Kaju, Joan Wagner, Jane Allen, Kimberly King, George Kennedy
1:38.4	Jr. Jody Howe's, Keith Arnold, Gerald Craft, and Sheila Schrock.
1:45.0	Some of these cases, Joan Wagner, Jody House, Sheila Schrock,
1:51.0	they're solved.
1:52.0	Others like Kimberly King and Jane Allen are not. Today we're
1:57.8	looking at three murders that occurred in North Oakland County. There is no
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