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.
Chapter 50: Probation Discrepancies
The Busch criminal files in both Genesee and Oakland County contain provisions that Christopher Busch will not be granted probation....
Read MoreChapter 51: Wayne County Grand Jury
The Michigan Grand Jury Statute provides for a Citizen’s Grand Jury and a Judicial Grand Jury. A Citizen’s Grand Jury...
Read MoreChapter 52: Oakland County Grand Jury
Oakland County formed a Citizen’s Grand Jury in the spring or early summer of 2011 to examine several cold cases,...
Read MoreChapter 53: Cooper-Burgess Relationship
My interest in the above matter arose when my friend Judy Dieboldt of the Detroit News called me after Jane...
Read MoreChapter 54: Interagency Relationship: 1977 to 2005:
This relationship portion of my Story has been the most difficult to organize and present. This is due partially to...
Read MoreChapter 55: Interagency Relationships-2005 to 2009
The King family was pleased to learn that a new OCCK Task Force was formed in 2005. When my children...
Read MoreChapter 56: Interagency Relationships- 2009 to 2010
In previous Chapters we learned (a) that Wayne County and the MSP had determined that Christopher Busch was the leading...
Read MoreChapter 57: Interagency Relationship: 2010 to 2016
Once Oakland County took charge silence again became the norm. In my FOIA cases the Oakland County Prosecutor successfully argued...
Read MoreChapter 58: Interagency Relationships-Oakland County Malfeasance
In my judgment Oakland County has not taken any positive action to solve the OCCK case after my daughter Cathy...
Read MoreChapter 59: Prepublication of Case Decision
On April 26, 2012 Jessica Cooper was quoted in the Oakland Press stating that she had won the appeal of...
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