The Oakland County Child Killer Part 1
Criminology
Emash Digital
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The Oakland County child killer was responsible for the murders of at least 4 children in Oakland County, MI, in 1976 and 1977. Technically, we don't know whether it's a single killer or multiple killers. What we do know is that these murders shocked that area of Michigan and forever changed the lives of the people there, not just the families of the victims, but the entire community.
Join Mike and Morf for the first part of a discussion on the Oakland County child killer. The perpetrator selected both male and female victims and dumped their bodies where they would easily be found. It also seems as though the perpetrator kept the victims for some time, and in some cases even washed their clothes and redressed them. The details of this case have grabbed people's attention for fifty years.
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| 0:00.0 | Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics. |
| 0:05.8 | Listener discretion is advised. Hello, everyone and welcome to episode 400 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson. |
| 0:43.1 | And this is Mike Morford. Mr. Morford, how are you doing this week, buddy? I'm doing pretty good. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm pretty excited. This is our 400th episode and it's just such a monumental number that you know I was very excited to do this one. |
| 0:55.9 | Yeah, it's a big milestone. If you think back about how we started, how long it's been. |
| 1:03.1 | I mean, time flies. There's no doubt about that. But it's been a heck of a journey. I mean, |
| 1:10.1 | I've had fun doing this with you. |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah, same. |
| 1:13.0 | And, you know, if we're doing roughly 50 episodes a year, that's like eight years that |
| 1:18.2 | we've been doing this. |
| 1:19.2 | And I don't know, I'm excited about the next eight years. |
| 1:21.7 | Yeah, it's kind of funny because I had someone leave a voicemail on True Crime all the |
| 1:26.7 | time. |
| 1:27.3 | And they were saying, hey, |
| 1:28.8 | started listening to you as a freshman in high school. And then they were just graduating from |
| 1:35.1 | college. So that kind of, you know, put it into perspective. And I'm sure that there are people |
| 1:41.3 | like that with criminology as well well because we have been doing it for |
| 1:46.3 | eight plus years. Yeah, it kind of makes you feel old. It does. Something like that. |
| 1:52.1 | It does. Hey, let's go ahead and give our Patreon shoutouts. We had Davis and Jamie Basil jump out at our |
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| 2:01.3 | So that's great new support. |
| 2:03.1 | Yeah. |
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