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Another Fascinating Wednes Factoid:
Occasionally, people ask me why I am so interested in horror, murder, abnormal psychology, and serial killers. On the surface, I'd suggest that there's no real reason people are interested in this or that...that it just kind of happens. Realistically though, that's not very true. If you want to read the grisly reasons, they are detailed below.
My interest in such things begins right about here, with the mysterious man or men called The Oakland County Child Killer or alternately The Babysitter. I was a little kid in the 70's in Oakland County MI when all that craziness was going on. Parents flipped the hell out over it too. I'm sure that it affected me profoundly to be taught to be afraid of serial killers at such a young age. It was the beginning of a pervasive "Don't go with strangers" campaign on Tv and radio. Plus, he took four kids in a relatively short time; this leads to insane, urgent press coverage.
The craziest thing about The Oakland County Child Killer is that they never caught him. He might even have moved around and killed in other states. They don't know. I even have a Serial Killer (true crime) trading card of him as the shadowy Babysitter. But since I don't have a scanner, you'll just have to take my word for it.
So today I hear that one of the guys they questioned in the 1970's is being questioned again about some shenanegans he got up to in Washtenaw County (which is where I live now, incidentally). In the 70's, my Mom told me that Walt was one of the suspects in the case and that we had to be extra careful in case he came to get us. yeah...
My interest in such things begins right about here, with the mysterious man or men called The Oakland County Child Killer or alternately The Babysitter. I was a little kid in the 70's in Oakland County MI when all that craziness was going on. Parents flipped the hell out over it too. I'm sure that it affected me profoundly to be taught to be afraid of serial killers at such a young age. It was the beginning of a pervasive "Don't go with strangers" campaign on Tv and radio. Plus, he took four kids in a relatively short time; this leads to insane, urgent press coverage.
The craziest thing about The Oakland County Child Killer is that they never caught him. He might even have moved around and killed in other states. They don't know. I even have a Serial Killer (true crime) trading card of him as the shadowy Babysitter. But since I don't have a scanner, you'll just have to take my word for it.
So today I hear that one of the guys they questioned in the 1970's is being questioned again about some shenanegans he got up to in Washtenaw County (which is where I live now, incidentally). In the 70's, my Mom told me that Walt was one of the suspects in the case and that we had to be extra careful in case he came to get us. yeah...