The Oakland County Child Killer Part 2

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

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🗓️ 15 March 2026

⏱️ 104 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 second and last part of a discussion on the Oakland County child killer. In this episode we focus more on the known evidence in the case and dive into the plethora of suspects that police have identified over the years. We also had a discussion with former FBI profiler Julia Cowley, who hosts the podcast - the Consult; real FBI profilers, and we talked about what her years of experience profiling killers like this tells her about this case and the killer.

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0:00.0	Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.
0:05.9	Listener discretion is advised. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 401 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson.
0:43.1	And this is Mike Morford. Mr. Morford, how are you doing today, buddy? I'm doing pretty good. How are things up your way?
0:50.1	Pretty good. I don't know if I said it last week. I don't think I did, but my youngest just turned 21.
0:56.9	And that is a milestone that's kind of making me feel old.
1:01.9	Just that is making you feel old?
1:04.4	Oh, no, there's a bunch of things that make me feel old, but that is one of them, I should say.
1:10.1	Yeah, I definitely get it. I was just pulling her later. That's, that's funny, but happy birthday to her. Yeah, yeah, it was, you know, it's pretty cool, pretty cool thing. Let's go ahead and give our Patreon shoutouts. We had Donna Dornbos and Molly Burr. So great new support. We really appreciate it. That's so awesome. Thank you so much for that. And for anyone else that wants to help support the show,
1:32.1	head over to Patreon.com slash criminology to get started.
1:35.4	All right. We're jumping right in to part two and our conclusion of the Oakland County Child Killer case.
1:42.9	In part one, we discussed a number of children who were murdered in Oakland County Child Killer case. In part one, we discussed a number of children who were murdered
1:46.8	in Oakland County, Michigan in the mid-1970s. Eventually, police solved some of the cases and
1:54.0	determined that they were not victims of the person known as the Oakland County Child Killer.
2:00.2	Officially, police believe that 12-year-old Mark Stebens, 12-year-old Jill Robinson,
2:06.8	10-year-old Christine Mahalic, and 11-year-old Timothy King are the four victims of this
2:13.2	killer, and their murders remain unsolved.
2:16.5	And in the quest to solve these cases over the last 50 years, investigators were forced to
2:22.4	look into the very dark and twisted world of child sex abuse.
2:27.5	And as they would discover at the time of these murders, Oakland County was a hotbed
2:33.1	of this activity with no shortage of pedophiles and potential
2:38.0	suspects. The task force that had been set up to catch this killer worked hard and tracked
2:43.2	thousands of leads and combed through many tips. Some 18,000 total tips or leads were checked.
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