Despite what's been reported, there may be more than one Oakland County Child Killer involved in the disturbing abduction-murders of four children in the 1970s.
Free Press reporter L.L. Brasier writes about her interview with Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper:
"We don't know if it was one killer or two, operating in tandem, or not," Cooper said recently in a wide-ranging interview about newly released documents obtained by the Free Press under the Freedom of Information Act. "We just don't know. It will be science that will solve these cases."
The documents reveal new details but also show that several other assumed facts of the cases aren't as they have been reported by investigators, the news media and family members for more than three decades.
Since the 1970s, the thought was that there was one killer and that person was dubbed the Oakland County Child Killer.
In July, Cooper announced (pictured here) announced that DNA evidence linked a hair found on victim Timothy King, 11, with a hair found on victim Mark Stebbins, 12. Brasier writes that it was first connection to the two boys, but no link was found to victims Jill Robinson, 12, or Kristine Mihelich, 10.
The Freep reports that a leading national expert said it would be unusual for a pedophile to murder both boys and girls at that age. Typically, they pick one gender.
