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North Fox Island, a 428-acre expanse in Lake Michigan, embodies a stark juxtaposition of breathtaking natural beauty and a deeply troubling past. While islands are often romanticized as peaceful retreats, their isolation has also made them convenient hideaways for illicit activities, far removed from public oversight. North Fox Island, in particular, is infamous for its association with some of the most heinous crimes, including child exploitation and illegal operations. Its history stands as a chilling reminder of the evil that can thrive in secluded environments.
In the mid-20th century, North Fox Island became a notorious refuge for criminals seeking to evade law enforcement. Its remote location in Lake Michigan made it an ideal spot for unlawful activities, such as smuggling and human trafficking. The island’s dense forests and rugged terrain provided perfect cover for covert operations, making it difficult for authorities to monitor or intervene. Over time, disturbing rumors began to surface about the island’s darker secrets, particularly involving the abuse of vulnerable individuals.
One of the most harrowing episodes in the island’s history occurred in the 1970s, when it became the site of a child exploitation ring. At the center of this operation was Francis Sheldon, a wealthy and influential man who owned the island. Sheldon used the guise of a boys’ nature camp to mask his horrific abuse of minors. Children were trafficked to the island, where they suffered unimaginable atrocities. The island’s seclusion allowed these crimes to go undetected for years, shielding the perpetrators from scrutiny.
The truth about North Fox Island’s dark past began to emerge through the bravery of survivors and the efforts of law enforcement. Their testimonies and investigations revealed the extent of the abuse, leading to a series of arrests and high-profile legal cases. While these actions brought some measure of justice, the trauma endured by the victims and the island’s tainted legacy remain deeply entrenched. Efforts to rehabilitate the island have been made, but its history continues to cast a long shadow over its present and future.
Today, North Fox Island serves as a somber reminder of the darkness that can lie beneath even the most picturesque settings. Its story underscores the importance of vigilance and the need to protect the vulnerable, no matter how remote or idyllic a place may seem. While the island’s natural beauty persists, its history is forever marred by the atrocities that once took place there.
Beyond North Fox Island, the broader network of abuse in Michigan reveals an even more disturbing picture. A sprawling pedophile and pornography ring, involving wealthy and well-connected individuals, operated for years, preying on vulnerable children. This network extended across multiple states, with North Fox Island serving as one of its key hubs. The ring’s activities included the production and distribution of child pornography, as well as the trafficking and exploitation of minors for profit.
One of the most alarming aspects of this case was the involvement of law enforcement and government officials, who either ignored the crimes or actively participated in covering them up. This complicity allowed the ring to continue its operations with little fear of exposure. It was only through the courage of survivors and the persistence of investigators that the full scope of the abuse was eventually uncovered.
The investigation into the ring led to numerous arrests and convictions, though many believe that not all those responsible were held accountable. The case exposed significant flaws in the systems designed to protect children and highlighted the need for greater transparency and accountability, especially when dealing with individuals in positions of power. Despite the legal outcomes, the scars left on survivors and their families endure, serving as a stark reminder of the lasting impact of such crimes.
The story of Michigan’s pedophile and pornography ring is a grim testament to the evil that can hide within seemingly ordinary communities. It emphasizes the critical importance of vigilance, transparency, and the protection of society’s most vulnerable. While justice has been pursued, the legacy of these crimes continues to haunt survivors and the communities affected, leaving an indelible mark on Michigan’s history.
According to Detroit News:
“The Oakland County Child Killings (OCCK) in Michigan were wintertime murders of at least two boys and two girls in the suburbs of Detroit over a period of 13 months between 1976 and 1977. The victims: Mark Stebbins, 12; Jill Robinson, 12; Kristine Mihelich, 10; and Timothy King, 11. They are also known as “the children of the snow.” Each were kidnapped and held from four to 19 days before being killed.”
“At present, the leading suspects are a crew of interconnected flying-monkey homosexual pederasts: Christopher Busch, Gregory Greene, Vince Gunnels, Ted Lambrogine and Archibald Sloan.”
“Busch first appeared on the OCCK investigators’ radar in 1977 during the interrogation of a pedophile named Gregory Greene, Busch’s close friend and frequent partner in crime. Detectives were interviewing Greene regarding pedophilia activity at Brother Paul’s Children’s Mission on nearby North Fox Island. Both Greene and Busch would eventually face charges in the children’s mission case. We will deal with the North Fox Island pedo ring at the back end of this post.”
“Michigan State Police reports provide an extensive history of Greene’s violent pederast convictions in California, including one case in which he thought the boy was dead and dropped him off at a hospital. Fortunately, the boy lived. After he served his jail term in California, Greene returned to his home town of Flint, Michigan, where he met Busch and became his flying monkey.”
“During his interview, Greene reportedly told investigators Busch had confessed to the murder of Mark Stebbins, generally believed to be the OCCK’s first victim. Then, on Jan. 28, 1977, Busch himself stated that Greene and he planned to have one of them get a day job and the other a night job so that they could have someone present at all times with a potential future victim. Busch did not answer the question when the police asked him what they would do when they were finished with a child.”
“In actuality, it was Greene who most resembles eyewitness composite sketches. It’s quite obvious these were the killers, or at minimum the abductors.”
“Busch further described three locations where he abducted up young boys in the past. These locations are where Mark Stebbins, Jill Robinson and Kristine Mihelich were abducted. At the time of Busch’s interview, Tim King had not yet met his fate.”
• 9 Mile and Woodward are in Ferndale
• In Royal Oak near 13 Mile Road and Woodward
• In the area of 12 Mile and Greenfield Road; more specifically, Hartfield’s Bowling Alley and the 7-11 party store located directly across the street
“There was a very active pedophile ring on Cass Avenue in Detroit that supplied young children to Oakland County and Fox Island abusers. If these abusers were using other people to pick up the children, it is possible that Christopher Busch and Gregory Greene were procurers as well as a active participants.”
“This is where things get dicey. Busch was the son of H. Lee Busch, a General Motors vice president, who died at the age of 90 in 2002. In his document called a “A Father’s Story,” Barry King, father of young murdered Timmy, wrote:
“Richard Lawson, a convicted murderer and pedophile activist in the Detroit Cass Avenue Corridor, wrote me a letter and asked for a meeting to discuss the OCCK case. Dave Binkley of my law firm agreed to visit with him. Lawson advised Binkley that his associate Bobby Moore, used to take young boys to visit with H. Lee Busch, the father of Christopher Busch.”
“To verify Busch’s involvement in the OCCK crimes, he was given a polygraph by Ralph Cabot, a Michigan State Police examiner who, according to The Detroit Free Press, possessed a reputation for shoddy work. Busch passed the polygraph, as did Gregory Greene, and at that point the depraved duo were removed from the short list of suspects.”
“According to Barry King, almost two years after he filed suit to review the Oct. 28, 2008, search warrant on the Busch residence, the 48th District Court gave him access to its search warrant file. The search warrant affidavit, prepared by the Oakland County Prosecutor and signed by the Michigan State Police, disclosed that three experienced polygraphers concluded that Busch either failed or did not pass the Jan. 28, 1977, lie detector test. Yet, the Oakland County Prosecutor publicly stated in February 1977 that Busch passed the test.”
“In 2008, the Oakland County Prosecutor refused to release the conclusions of three subsequent polygraphers, who arrived at contrary opinions after reading the same test results.”
“MSP reports indicate that Kym Worthy, the Wayne County Prosecutor, was considering a grand jury on Oct. 15, 2008. The entry states that she wanted to examine several redacted names and “Cabot.” Ralph Cabot was the Genesee County polygrapher who examined Christopher Busch on Jan. 27, 1977. The grand jury did not indict anyone and was terminated after several extensions.”
“But Busch was still not off the hook on sex crime charges. Incredibly. his sidekick, Gregory Greene, was held on $75,000 bail and was ultimately given a life sentence. He died of a “heart attack” in his cell at the age of 45. Busch’s bail had originally been set at $75,000, but on his booking sheet that sum had been penciled out and $1,000 written in its place.”
“Busch then pled guilty to four child sex criminal cases without spending a day in jail. The Michigan State Police report also indicated that he was active at North Fox Island. The report made reference to Christopher Busch having a suitcase of pornographic photographs on North Fox Island. He was not indicted for his possession of these pictures.”
“One month after Busch was released, Tim King was abducted and murdered in March 1977. This was the last known OCCK murder.”
“Busch had access to a secluded family cabin on Ess Lake. During the angst-ridden six days Tim King was missing, a neighbor, aware of Busch’s history of pedophilia, called the police to report that Busch was cavorting at the cabin with minors. Although such circumstances would likely have been a violation of the terms of Busch’s probation on the earlier sex charges, there is no evidence law enforcement investigated the tip.”
“The Busch family owned a white Welsh terrier. White animal hairs were reportedly found on the clothes of all four OCCK victims.”
“On Nov. 20, 1978, Busch was found dead at age 27 in his family’s mansion in Bloomfield Hills. There was one bullet hole between his eyes. Everything screamed set up and murder, not suicide. Busch purportedly shot himself in the head with a rifle, and yet when found he was wrapped tightly in a blanket. There was lack of measurable gunshot residue on the hands.”
“There were several items present that seemed staged. Ligatures were placed sloppily on the floor of what otherwise was a clean room. There were shotgun shells of the same caliber that killed Jill Robinson.”
“And last but not least, a diabolical hand-drawn picture of a screaming child was hanging on the wall. The boy has a striking resemblance to the first victim, Mark Stebbins. Chillingly, the boy in the drawing has been captured mid-scream, his face contorted in terror, his hood drawn up as Mark Stebbins’ had been when his sexually defiled body was dumped in a snow-covered parking lot two years earlier.”
“It seems beyond the pale that Busch would just leave this on the wall. His parents were in Europe, but the maid was coming that morning for housecleaning. The Stebbins case was highly publicized, and his image was well known. We believe it was planted there by a hit team.”
“Even though Busch had been cleared as a suspect in the Stebbins murder case on Jan. 28, 1977, the OCCK Task Force was called to help process the scene, which was quickly called a suicide. Then, killing multiple birds with one stone, both Oakland County and the original Task Force essentially disbanded on Dec. 15, 1978, three weeks after Busch’s death.”
“Author Anthony Karrick was writing a book claiming that Busch has been murdered by other OCCK perpetrators because had become too sloppy and a liability. Karrick suddenly died before the book was completed.”
“Years later, other details emerged from investigative reporters and the efforts of the King family. The most intriguing evidence against Busch, however, is a hair found on victim Kristine Mihelich; the strand was recently revealed to be a mitochondrial DNA match to one Vincent James Gunnels, age 16 at the time of the OCCK crimes.”
“Gunnels was one of the boys Busch was convicted of molesting. Was Gunnel’s hair left on Kristine’s clothing by secondary transfer? Gunnels, then in prison on sex crimes, reportedly told investigators he was in Busch’s car “hundreds” of times.”
“Or was the hair’s transference more direct? Using victims to procure additional prey is a classic pedophile tactic employed most famously by Houston serial killer Dean Corll, who murdered in conjunction with his sodomy victim-turned-apprentice Elmer Wayne Henley.”
“The other aspect is that various pederasts were raping and abusing their captives, but may or may not be involved in the act of murder. To make a murder or pederast ring work, all flying monkeys involved had to get dirty, even if it meant just driving the child to another location, watching over them, or participating in the sexual abuse. That way, all sink or swim together. This is really the key to all compromised activity that we cover on our pages. There is a very good probability that powerful pederasts also participated in the sex abuse activity, thus explaining why investigations were derailed.”
“Gunnels was polygraphed on July 30, 2009, and was asked three specific questions regarding the Child Killing investigation. Due to his DNA being discovered on Kristine Mihelich, he was asked the following:
“Did you participate in any way in the killing of Kristine Mihelich?”
“Do you know for sure who killed Kristine Mihelich?”
“Did you have any physical contact with Kristine Mihelich?”
Lt. Dykstra, after reviewing the three separate charts in the polygraph, concluded that Mr. Gunnels completely failed all aspects of said examination.
“Busch was clearly not averse to operating with a partner, as evidenced by his friendship with Greene and his involvement in the Brother Paul’s pedophile ring. Fellow molesters were clearly his pals of choice. And in the days before the Darknet, where was the best place to find fellow pederasts? Lurking around children, of course.”
“Arch Sloan was first identified to the King family on July 17, 2012, when the Oakland County Prosecutor publicly requested information on his possible involvement in the murders. The Task Force had obtained DNA evidence indicating the similarities between hairs found on Mark Stebbins, the first victim, Tim King and a hair found in the car of Sloan. However, the DNA match was not to Sloan but apparently some passenger in his car. Busch and Sloane were operating in the same area at the same time and stalking the same type of children. It’s likely their victim-strewn paths crossed at one time or another.”
“Murder suspect Richard Lawson advised the investigators that his friend, Bobby Moore, stated one Ted Lamborgine had identified a picture of Tim King naked in one of Moore’s photo albums. In September 2005, Lamborgine was polygraphed and also failed the examination regarding his involvement in the OCCK case.”
“Bobby Moore was instrumental in boy recruitment and general degeneracy. He had a bike shop in the Cass corridor, with a basement used for pederasty. He likely knew things, even if not directly involved in child killings. Like Busch, dead men can’t talk, as he turned up dead of a “heart attack” (common theme in these cases) and chewed up by his dogs.”
“The King family also understands that Lamborgine may have made admissions to another jail inmate about being involved in the OCCK case. Hearsay evidence indicated that Lamborgine was not the one who murdered the victims, but that he molested all of the kids from the OCCK case.”
“Even after Lamborgine was in prison, the Task Force Representatives offered to change his name and move him to a better federal prison, if he could provide information on the OCCK case. Lamborgine did not accept this offer.”
“The aforementioned were active on the pederast procuring and rape scene. Police suspect there may have been hundreds of men involved in this network. Typically, the parties in the rich suburbs were potluck orgies where boys were sodomized, photographed, then thrown in a bathtub and hosed off.”
North Fox Island
“The proprietors of North Fox Island were wealthy Michigan elites. This was a remote island in Traverse Bay, outside of Traverse City, Michigan. Someone using an assumed name had purchased the island and put in an airplane runway. The island was then used as a camp for young boys from around Michigan who were flown to the island and then sexually abused.”
“The owner was later identified as Francis Sheldon from Grosse Pointe, Michigan. There were reports that Busch and his pornographic films were delivered to Flint, Michigan, and from there distributed globally. Police did not follow up on this either.”
“The North Fox Island ring was what was referred to as a “hard candy” ring. This requires some sort of input or vetting from the pederast community to join — either by providing photos of children or bringing kids to meet ups. This ensured that if things went down, everyone went down. To have enough dirt to bury someone, they become part of the collective. This is the classic brownstone operation used to control and compromise. Photos were taken and reels existed of their acts with little boys. Then the degenerates get promoted into positions of power and control. Fox Island was likely part of that and for certain types, a stepping stone.”
“The Traverse City Record-Eagle began running a series of news articles by reporter Marilyn Wright about the child porn and pedophilia ring on North Fox Island, as well as child porn rings linked throughout the country and internationally. Shelden used his position in a fake social program, “Brother Paul’s Children’s Mission,” to fly boys in his private plane to a “boy’s nature camp” on the island.”
“Wright’s articles ran until December 1977. There was an update on Aug. 23, 1978. The headline read “Porno Figure [Shelden] Running Out of Places to Hide.”
“Late in 1976, North Fox Island also gained notoriety when its owners were charged with running a pornography operation involving young boys who were taken to North Fox under the pretext of being taken to a camp for boys.”
“To make a pedophile ring work, the boys being abused need to be scared of death or of harm to their families. As the Fox Island operation fell apart, is it possible the ring needed to terrorized the children involved to keep them quiet? That, and making snuff films, are motives for the OCCK. The two girls and two boys were picked at random. That girls were also killed was a message that their siblings were not safe either. Busch’s murder was to deal with a weak link, and also send a message to the finders and handlers of the boys to keep their mouths shut, too.”
“There is another possible element to this case, expressed by an eyewitness when Kristine Mihelich was abducted. This is shown at minute 00:54:25 in Part II of the “Children in the Snow” documentary. He said on camera that Mihelich got into what appeared to be a police cruiser.”
“From “In Portraits in the Snow, The Oakland County Child Killings … Scandals and Small Conspiracies” (2011), author M.F. Cribari wrote that a Detroit Free Press article dated Dec. 28, 1975, describes the generosity of Shelden, a “wealthy Ann Arbor bachelor,“ who was on the board of directors of The Cranbrook Institute (a private boys school in suburban Detroit), and Boys Republic, Inc. (a residential center for emotionally disturbed adolescents), who also devoted his time to the Big Brother program. Chris Busch was a Big Brother, too. Gregory Greene was a boys’ baseball coach.”
“Shelden was also a staff writer in the 1970s for “Better Life Monthly” (BLM), a magazine described as representing an international organization “seeking liberation for boys and boy-lovers.” Coded advertisements allowed subscribers to contact each other and to engage children in pornographic modeling and prostitution. Child pornographer Gerald Richards (a registered sex offender who apparently died in Port Huron prison in 1994 of, you guessed it, a “heart attack”) met Shelden around 1974.”
“Richards was a gym teacher at St. Joseph’s Catholic Elementary School in Dexter, Mich., who had run for public office. The father of two young kids at the time, Richards was also a child counselor, licensed hypnotist, massage therapist and naturopath. In fact, he had a “clinic,” which a few child victims (both male and female) describe in great detail in police reports.”
“Shelden responded to an ad Richards placed in BLM that described his “magic show.” The two corresponded and then met. Richards had been thinking of starting a “boys camp.” When he learned Shelden owned Fox Island, the two of them “naturally thought about organizing the camp. (From police reports)”
“The Church of Revelation ran an ad in BLM offering to help readers set up child-care organizations and camps. The Church of New Revelation was not a church at all, but just a referral and pimping agency that distributed child porn around the country. The “church” was incorporated in New Jersey in 1974. The same people also incorporated the Educational Foundation for Youth, allegedly based in Chicago. This foundation started out as the non-profit arm of a for-profit corporation that was listed as an “import/export” business.”
“Childcare sites and camps for boys were then set up under the auspices of the church and the foundation — charitable and educational entities that guaranteed state and federal income tax exemptions. These tax dodges were fronts for child pornography and pedophilia. Not only that, but some state welfare departments were duped into making payments for the support of the boys. At the time, counties would pay up to $150 a month per boy, the state up to $400, and the feds up to $700. In many cases, these guys were actually getting paid by the government to rape kids and film child pornography.”
“This activity was then photographed by adult directors, according to reports made to the state police, for use in hard-core pornographic magazines.”
“Richards responded to the church’s ad and “Reverend” Dyer Grossman (aka Dale Osterman, Elliot Crossman, Elijah Crossman) came from New Jersey to Port Huron to help Richards set up Brother Paul’s Childrens Mission. Grossman came from a very wealthy Long Island family and had been — no real surprise — a science teacher at two boys schools, one of them a boarding school. Richards was the president of this newly formed mission, and Grossman was the vice president. Shelden was listed as a director of the corporation.”
“In July 1976, the free-for-all was over for Fox Island patrons when charges were filed against Richards and later against Shelden and Grossman for CSC 1st degree for the rape of two boys in Port Huron and on Fox Island. Richards was arrested, but neither Shelden or Grossman were ever served with warrants.”
“The foot-dragging by prosecuting attorneys representing Port Huron and Ann Arbor ensured that these multi-millionaires would easily have plenty of time to destroy records and flee the country in their private jets, which is precisely what happened. Richards was arrested on July 23, 1976; but, according to a case file entry dated Aug. 2, 1976, Washtenaw County Prosecutor Peter Deegan “wants to wait on warrant for Sheldon [sic] until investigation is completed.”
“A Sept. 27, 1976, entry notes, “The St. Clair prosecutor was contacted with request for warrant for Grossman for sex crime last summer. He has not authorized as yet due to work load. If/when warrant is issued, the information will be related to same authority the above info will be referred to.”
“And then, on Oct. 8, 1976: “Re-open complaint. Complaint was closed in error. Attempts will be made to obtain warrants for Dyer Grossman and Frank Shelden.”
“The lowly gym teacher takes the bullet for the group; but it barely grazes him, given the crimes he committed. He provided information and testimony (relatively self-serving B.S.) concerning these “child care” fronts, pleaded guilty and received a sentence of two to 10 years. He would serve nowhere near a 10-year term and was back out on the streets in relatively short order.”
“Richards told police that if anything were to ever happen to Shelden, Richards was to go to his home and destroy the files with porno photos, etc. “to save Shelden’s parents and relatives any embarrassment.” When prosecutors finally got around to issuing a search warrant, all of Shelden’s file cabinets were empty.”
“Authorities discovered Shelden was living in the Netherlands. Shelden was never extradited and died at age 68 on July 1, 1996. Dyer Grossman was apparently never located.”
“In Amsterdam, Sheldon changed his name to Torey and, from 1979 to 1984, published “Pan: A Magazine about Boy-Love” (changed to Paedo Alert News in 1982). He also edited the first anthology of boy-love fiction “Panthology” (1981), published by John Stamford’s Spartacus. Torey founded his own Pan publishing house, the Acolyte Press, the most important publisher of boy-love fiction and erotica for a decade. Torey was also an author and published many of his short stories under the pen names Peter Zupp, Scott Altman, Wallington Fuger and Jotham Lotring.”
“A FOIA was filed in 2011 for FBI documents concerning Chris Busch and Francis Shelden. Both are deceased, so it should have been no problem. But, believe it or not, the files were among those “destroyed in a catastrophic flood” (their words) at one of the FBI’s storage facilities.”
But what went down was even more sinister. According to the The Hot Star:
July 1976 — In the quant little city of Port Huron, Michigan just North East of Detroit, a high school gym teacher named Gerald Richards, with a concerning combination of other vocations such as masseuse, magician, hypnotist, whilst also campaigning as a republican candidate for local government; was arrested after the mother of a student told police Richards had molested her son on a camping trip.
On the 12th of July Richards had taken four of his students to a private airstrip, to meet with another man who had flown them in his plane to his private island, called North Fox Island, located 17 miles off the coast of Michigan’s Leelanue peninsula. There, they spent two nights lodged in bungalow facilities of the Brother St Paul’s Summer Camp for Boys.
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Upon their return one of the boys told his mother Richards and this other man had performed sex acts on him and taken photographs of him naked. The mother reported this to Michigan police on the 15th of July, which begun a week long investigation into these allegations1.
After the boys claim had been corroborated through interviews with the other three, police arrested Richards in his car on the 23rd of July. When searching his vehicle two envelopes were discovered. One contained naked pictures of boys taken on North Fox Island, in the other a letter addressed to a “Frank Shelden”, warning him to “watch his files & mail & to check his files & get all stuff to North Fox Island”.
In exchange for partial immunity, Richards gave investigators the names of two other men he said were principal figures in a child porn ring he claimed to be merely at the periphery of. These were Francis Duffield Shelden and Dyer Grossman.
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The first of these names might have come as quite a shock, as Francis Duffield Shelden belonged to a well established old money family in the State of Michigan. His great-grandfather on his father’s side had been Michigan governor and senator Russel A. Alger, who had also been United States Secretary of War from 1897-99. While on his mother’s side were the Duffields, an industrialist family from Detroit made of money so old it wasn’t entirely clear from whence it came.
As such, Shelden had been endowed with a trust allowing him to pursue a leisurely life of ‘philanthropy’, particularly that which involved youth charity. So far as appearances went, he had many feathers in his cap. Aside from a number of commercial property interests, Shelden had worked part-time as a Professor of geology at Wayne State University. He served on the board of the Cranbrook institute, a private arts academy and boarding school with a thematic affinity for, oddly enough, the mythology of Orpheus5, the centerpiece of the academy’s campus showcasing a fountain sculpture called Orpheus fountainpic. In greek myth Orpheus was commonly associated with the arts, but also pederasty, known by Ovid as “Orpheus, the first pederast”. Shelden had also been on the board of Boys Republic6a, another boarding school for delinquent boys funded by the General Motors charity, United Foundation 6b. And in keeping with this theme, he also volunteered his time to a local Big Brother program.
According to Richards, he’d met Shelden through an advertisement placed for his ‘magic show’ in an underground pedophile newsletter called ‘Better Life Monthly’, abbreviated to BLM—or Boy Lover Monthly8, who Shelden had been a “prolific writer” for under the pen name Frank Torey. This ‘magic show’ was really a coded message Richards used to exchange his 12 year old ‘magic assistant’, a neighbour of his named Michael Farquhar, for boys groomed by other pedophiles in the Michigan area. He would later testify before a congressional inquiry into the sexual exploitation of children, held in 1977, that he’d been familiar with John Norman’s Odyssey network9, and at one point referred to Michael Farquhar as his ’fellow’10, which had been the term used for boys exchanged between members of the Odyssey network11. So it’s possible Richards and Shelden met through John Norman’s network.
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After corresponding by mail the two started meeting up in person at hotel rooms and Shelden’s Ann Arbour mansion to use boys they’d groomed for sex and pornography12. As their relationship progressed through these activities Shelden had mentioned North Fox Island to Richards, and his plan to start a summer camp there for boys he wanted Richards head. To this end he put Richards in touch with an organisation called The Church of New Revelation located in New Jersey, and a “reverend” there by the name Dyer Grossman.
The Church of New Revelation wasn’t a real a church and Dyer Grossman wasn’t a real reverend. Like Shelden, Grossman belonged to a wealthy family from Long Island, and worked as a teacher at an exclusive boarding school for boys in New York13. He travelled to Michigan and met with Richards to draft up an incorporating charter for Brother St Paul’s Mission Camp for Boys, to be located on North Fox Island. The charter allowed the camp to derive a religious charity non-profit status by virtue of being a subsidiary of Grossman’s Church in New Jersey, which of course had only existed on paper. While the exact timeline for this operation is unclear, a news article from 1970 would indicate Richards had been using an organisation called Brother Paul’s organisation as a child porn front for at least six years, long before it had been incorporated into a North Fox Island summer camp in 1974.
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Despite his, albeit less than entirely truthful cooperation with the investigation so far, Richards, who had since been granted bail with his trial set for August, had his bail bond abruptly cancelled by a judge in early September after he allegedly sent an anonymous letter to a local reverend claiming that his attorney and a psychiatrist named Dr. Katz had conspired against him. Richards denied writing this letter, and it isn’t entirely clear what his bizarrely did bit of incomplete information contained in the police report notes below was all about.
The immunity deal Richards had been granted for information on Shelden and Grossman had been made by a district attorney named Peter Deegan. Despite having made the deal, Deegan delayed the authorisation of arrest warrants for both Grossman and Shelden for over four months. Shelden and Deegan likely shared a mutual acquaintance by way of another Michigan district attorney in Charlevoix named Don Berlage. Berlage, who had visited North Fox Island with his two teenage sons on at least one occasion15, had been a former FBI agent16 and was a director of a Big Brother program 17, an organisation Shelden had also been involved with.
On September 13th Richards was brought to trial and abruptly sentenced to a 2-20 year variable length prison term 18. From inside prison, possibly alarmed by the potential length of his term, Richards sketched mapped out for investigators a network diagram detailing what amounted to a child pornography operation which spanned from state to state, coast to coast, right across the United States, and even the Atlantic Ocean onto Europe.
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Notice in the upper right corner Richards notes “Dorian Philosophy”. This he explained as the philosophical outlook behind the network in his testimony during the congressional inquiry.
”But more exclusively with them, they believed in a sort of reliving of an old Dorian Greek philosophy, a belief that man and boy relationship, mind, body and spirit. It is a metaphysical thing.”
Remember “Orpheus, the first pederast”? Well, the Dorians were progenitors to the totalitarian Greek city states, the most powerful and well known of which was Sparta. These city states were ruled by oligarchies in perpetual civil war against the greek democracies, such as Athens. The Dorians had been conquerers of the Island of Crete, and whatever mysterious traditions of Minoan civilisation carried over into Classical civilisation, most likely did so by way of the Dorian cultural diffusion into Greek culture. It is this supposed esoteric knowledge as to the ‘true’ roots of Western civilisation, contained in such mythologies as the Orphic mysteries, which has captured the fascination of aristocratic culture in the West ever since they rediscovered it during the renaissance. For more on this see: The Politics of Organised Vice: Part 1 – Mythological Origins and Child Abuse and High Society, a Christmas Tradition. Put simply, the Dorian outlook became the Spartan outlook, which became the basis for the Greek totalitarian outlook, whose most well known propagandist was Plato, the nephew of an Oligarch ruler. The tenets of this oligarchic totalitarian outlook are espoused in Plato’s “Republic”.
Then in August Richards produced further evidence of the networks existence by way of a letter Dyer Grossman had written him, postmarked from the 19th July 1976. In this letter Grossman outlined plans to set up a series of foster homes in Michigan, citing the profitability in receiving monthly payments from the government for taking in “runaways” and “problem kids”. Grossman also mentioned he had procured a 12 year old boy through the Big Brother program, whom he described as ‘innocent’ but that “some camping trips may change that”
The letter had a return address for an organisation in New Jersey called The Ocean Living Institute. This was a Seasteading foundation( not unlike TerraMar, the organisation ran by Ghislaine Maxwell and registered to an apartment sold to Jeffrey Epstein by Lynn Forester De Rothschild. For information on this and much more see Who did Jeffrey Epstein Work For? ), incorporated by a man with the curious name, Adam Starchild. Who had also been the incorporating agent for Brother Paul’s Mission Camp For Boys.
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Adam Starchild was actually Malcolm Willis McConahy, or at least had been; an offshore tax attorney who appeared to have faked his own death in 197523. Starchild, as we shall call him for clarity’s sake, had been a former been a former scout master in Minneapolis in 1965 but was kicked out of the organisation after expressing desires to engage in sex with some of the boys. Not long after he was apprehended in Wisconsin driving to New York with four boys in his car and was charged for possession of child pornography.
Starchild would later act as Francis Shelden’s attorney in transferring assets, such as stocks and bonds, into an offshore trust he could access from Europe. As this is where Shelden fled while district attorney Peter Deegan ‘handling’ the case, made persistent delays to the authorisation of a warrant for his arrest, which provided him with ample time to get his affairs in order.
First, on the 28th of July, just five days after Gerald Richards initial arrest, detectives contacted Deegan’s office regarding a search warrant for Shelden’s Ann Abor estate. Deegan attempted to delay this request until after Richards first court appearance, however they went around him and obtained it through another deputy-prosecutor and it was executed upon the following day25. Nothing had been found though except emptied filing cabinets. It turned out Shelden had learnt of Richards arrest beforehand and cleared the place out.
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Then, a few days later on the 2nd of August, Deegan deferred the first request for an arrest warrant for Francis Shelden.
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In early September Deegan also delayed arrest warrant requests for both Shelden and Dyer Grossman.
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Another one for Dyer Grossman was deferred on the 27th, Deegan’s office citing workload issues.
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Then the closest thing to a smoking gun came on the 8th of October, when investigators learnt Deegan’s office had in fact closed the case complaints made against Shelden and Grossman ‘in error’.
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Arrest warrants for both men were finally issued on the 7th of December31, more than four months after the investigation had started, and only days before a story broke about North Fox Island in the press. In the days following the public scandalisation of the case, a teenage boy Francis Shelden had known since age nine died in what was reported as a suicide.
The first in a series of articles divulging the details of the North Fox Island operation appeared in the Traverse City Record Eagle on December 11th. An investigative journalist named Marilyn Wright who had been following the case for months through her police contacts, had learnt Brother St Paul’s Mission Camp had been incorporated as a non-profit charity to provide temporary lodging and mentorship to juvenile delinquents33. It had been linked to two other organisations through The Church of New Revelation. These were The Ocean Living Society in New Jersey and The Educational Foundation for Youth in Chicago. These organisations used mailing lists to elicit donations from charity sponsors, who would in return be mailed child pornography featuring boys housed in those programs. In some instances sponsors could arrange visits with the boys featured in the materials. These mailing lists had been advertised in two underground child porn newsletters, Better Life Monthly and Hermes, of which Francis Shelden had also been involved with as both a writer and financier.
Investigators also learnt Gerald Richards had been processing child porn sent to him from a third organisation linked to the The Church of New Revelation. Photo negatives and 8mm films had been mailed to him from a place in Monteagle, Tennessee called Father Bud’s Boy’s Farm34. He made copies of these and mailed them onto a forwarding service located in North Carolina called MAIL-O-MATIC 35. Interestingly, Richards also mentioned a distribution company in California as part of this pipeline, called F&S Distributions36, he said belonged to Guy Strait37a 37b, the child pornographer partnered with William Byars Jr in the DOMLyric ring, linked to John Norman in Dallas, as well as the child pornographer Roy Ames and his associate “serial killer” Dean Corll in Houston. A connection detailed in part two of this series: Dean Corll and the Odyssey Network. Richards also noted that F&S Distributions was the Californian publisher for Hermes38, which Guy Strait had himself been admittedly involved with.
Father Bud’s Boys Farm in Tennessee was a foster home located on a secluded farm being run by an ordained episcopal priest named Rev. Cladius Vermilye. It housed juvenile delinquents sent there by the youth corrections and welfare agencies of Tennessee and Louisiana40a 40b. These boys would be supplied with drugs and alcohol to make them pliant and perform in orgies, which were filmed and photographed. This child porn would be sent out to a mailing list of ‘sponsors’, who could pay to arrange visits to the farm, which also operated as a brothel. This foster home was raided on the 10th of November 1976, and a list of over 270 sponsors was seized. On this was Francis Shelden’s name41, while authorities in Tennessee linked the farms operation to Adam Starchild, Dyer Grossman, and The Church of New Revelation.
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What had in part led to this raid, in conjunction with the information Gerald Richards provided, had been the discovery of yet another child porn ring, this time in New Orleans, two months prior in September 1976.
Which brings us to the next part of this network, and series, Boy Scout Troop 137. However, this was not the end of the North Fox Island connections. In fact, what has been accounted for thus far isn’t even half the story. As North Fox Island would later become linked to the investigation into a series of child murders in Oakland County Michigan during the same period. Attributred to a serial killer dubbed the Oakland County Child Killer, or OCCK. Which will be explored in a forthcoming part of the series.
It just keeps on growing. . .
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This isn’t the first child sex trafficking ring as it’s quite common in America and all around the world. From the Franklin Coverup, to Operation Rescue in the Netherlands in 2011, which arrested 70,000 perverts, to South Wales, Australia of 700 sickos’ arrest last year, it’s a serious problem. All of them have one thing in common. Police, politicians and business owners are involved which makes it harder to find these rings as they are protected by their own inside government. They are well organized, heavily funded and protected by wealthy people. There is a lot of evidence linking this to satanic ritual abuse and an agenda. The agenda, according to some investigators, is to create as many gay men as possible because their religion calls for it. However, there is only proof in witness testimonies, satanic defectors and whistleblowers.
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