A Father's Story – Oakland County Child Killer
In 2016, Barry King, father of Tim King, began a series of blog posts relating his experiences with the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office and the Michigan State Police. His blog was located under the domain name afathersstory-occk.com and there were approximately 80 postings made that year. Mr. King passed away in December of 2020 and 2 years later the domain was not renewed, causing the website to go offline. The site was and still is archived in the Wayback Machine but thereafter was no longer indexed by search engines. The posts were restored here under the new domain name occk.info in order to give Mr. King’s posts the attention they deserve.
Barry King, devoted father and lawyer, in pursuit of solving The Oakland County Child Killer Case for his beloved son, Tim and the rest of the victims. The Oakland County Child Killer (OCCK) is an unidentified serial killer responsible for the murders of four or more children, two girls and two boys, in Oakland County, Michigan, United States in 1976 and 1977.
On February 15, 1976, Mark Stebbins, 12, was abducted in Ferndale MI, his body was found four days later in Southfield, MI. On December 22, 1976 Jill Robinson, 12, was abducted in Royal Oak, MI, three days later her body was found near Troy, MI. On January 2, 1997, Kristine Mihelich, 10, was abducted in Berkley, MI, 19 days later her body was found in Franklin Village, MI. On March 16, 1997 Tim King, son of Barry King, author of A Father’s Story, was abducted near Birmingham, MI, six days later his body was found in Livonia, MI.
A Father’s Story will follow a timeline of videos, blog posts, statements, and information regarding the case in hopes that someone will come forward with missing information
This series of unfortunate events is staggering and instilled fear and hysteria throughout Southeastern MI and the nation. Local and nation-wide news channels took a fast interest in the story where the OCCK case was featured in People Magazine, Time Magazine, Good Housekeeping, The Daily Tribune, The Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press, The Oakland Press, The Traverse City Record Eagle, Detroit Monthly and The Birmingham Eccentric.
There have been many leads and arrests throughout the effort of solving this case. Many of the suspects are now deceased, or in custody. However, the case remains open with no one serving time for the murders of four innocent children in Oakland County, MI. Please follow A Father’s Story in hopes of filling in the missing links of any useful information to solving this gruesome unsolved mystery for my son Tim and all of the victims lives that the Oakland County Child Killer took.
Prologue – Oakland County Child Killer
My eleven-year-old son, Timothy, was abducted in Oakland County on March 16, 1977, and his body was found in Wayne...
Read MoreChapter 1: Introduction
My eleven-year-old son Timothy was abducted on March 16, 1977, in our hometown of Birmingham, Oakland County, Michigan. Tim was...
Read MoreChapter 2: Format
When I was in the Navy I took a course on training enlisted personnel. The petty officer who presented the...
Read MoreChapter 3: Blue Gremlin – 1977
The King family has always thought it was highly unlikely that Tim left the Hunter-Maple parking lot in a Blue...
Read MoreChapter 4: Blue Gremlin – Other Automobiles
After March 1, 2010, I filed a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) lawsuit against the Michigan State Police (“MSP”) requesting...
Read MoreChapter 5: Blue Gremlin – Cathy Broad Report
Tim’s sister, Cathy Broad, has prepared her summary of the automobile investigations and it follows in this paragraph. July 2,...
Read MoreChapter 6: Blue Gremlin – Doug Wilson
Tim’s mother died in 2004 and I married her friend, Janice Bollinger in 2008. Janice told me that her friend,...
Read MoreChapter 7: Blue Gremlin – Conclusion
As mentioned in Chapter 3, the King family always thought it was unlikely that a Blue Gremlin was involved in...
Read MoreChapter 8: Search Warrant-Affidavit
Attached as Exhibit A is the Search Warrant Affidavit dated October 28, 2008 prepared by the Oakland County Prosecutor and...
Read MoreChapter 9: Search Warrant Orders
Attached are the following copies of the Orders of Suppressions referred to in the previous chapters. 1. Exhibit B: A “true copy”...
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