Well, on a very basic level, people who are from Detroit simply don't like to get pushed

around, I guess.

And I got tired of listening to the rhetoric surrounding the investigation or the alleged

investigation into the Oakland County Child killings.

There are two possible reasons this case was never officially closed.

And I don't believe in the first one, which is that the incompetence of the investigation

led to it remaining open for over four decades now.

The other reason this case was never officially closed was that it was not meant to be closed.

And I could tell from very early on listening to the news stories about this case and doing

some initial reading.

There were certain people in positions of power who didn't want this thing shut because

to shut the case means you have to come up with a conclusion.

But on a very personal level, this case anchored in me very early on because when I was a

kid, somebody tried to snatch me while I was walking home from the century drugs that

used to be at Evergreen Plaza.

They called it over at 11 mile in Evergreen in Southfield, which is outside of Detroit.

Nothing happened.

Somebody I thought was a security guard had followed me out of the store, gotten into his

car, followed me for three of blocks, and then later tried to get me into that car.

I ran away.

I never told anybody.

And as an adult, I started thinking of the time period in which this attempted snatch

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