Crimes & Victims:
September 1972: Teenager Donna SERRA is strangled in Ray Township.
January 15, 1976: Cynthia CADIEUX (16) abducted the day before, is found raped and bludgeoned to death. Her naked body is lying on a rural road in Bloomfield Township. Her corpse had apparently been dragged over snow covered pavement, her clothes piled fifteen feet from the body.
January 19, 1976: Sheile SHROCK is raped an shot death in Birmingham inside her home.
February 13, 1976: Mark STEBBINS (12) leaves the American Legion hall in Ferndale, heading homeward early afternoon. His corpse is found February 19, lying in the snowy parking lot behind an office building. According to the coroner Mark was killed appr. 36 hours earlier, sexually assaulted, his body carefully cleaned and exposed for discovery.
August 8, 1976: Jane ALLAN (13) is abducted while hitchhiking in Royal Oak. Her dead body is found August 11 at Miamisburg (OH) poisoned with carbon monoxide.
December 21, 1976: Jill ROBINSON (12) disappears from Royal Oak, her body discoverd December 26 near Troy, laid out neatly in a roadside snow bank. The cause of death had been a single short-range shotgun blast. The corpse had been carefully scrubbed. This time there is no evidence of sexual assault.
January 2, 1977: Kristine MIHELICH (10) vanishes on a short walk from her Berkley home. Her body, laid out in a funeral position, is found January 21, in Franklin Village, not far from the location Cynthia CADIEUX had been discarded one year ago.
March 16, 1977: Timothy KING (11) disappears in Birmingham. Timothy´s mother begged for the safe return of her son through TV, promising his favorite chicken dinner on his return.
March 23, 1977: Timothy´s corpse is discoverd in a roadside ditch near Livonia. Timothy was suffocated apparently, his body scrubbed and manicured, his clothing cleaned and pressed. Medical examination confirmed sexual assault and a last chicken dinner before death.
March 27, 1977: Dr. Bruce DANTO, a Detroit psychiatrist, publishes an open letter to the “Babysitter”, called so by the media for his “care” for the victims while holding them captive.
One of the callers after DANTO´s theories published, tells DANTO “The article was wrong. You better hope it doesn´t snow any more.” Another caller, naming himself “Allen”, claims to be a roommate of the killer, having soldiered with him in Vietnam, offering weird theories and motives.
The next winter arrives, snow falls - but no more killings appear...
Crimes & Victims:
September 1972: Teenager Donna SERRA is strangled in Ray Township.
January 15, 1976: Cynthia CADIEUX (16) abducted the day before, is found raped and bludgeoned to death. Her naked body is lying on a rural road in Bloomfield Township. Her corpse had apparently been dragged over snow covered pavement, her clothes piled fifteen feet from the body.
January 19, 1976: Sheile SHROCK is raped an shot death in Birmingham inside her home.
February 13, 1976: Mark STEBBINS (12) leaves the American Legion hall in Ferndale, heading homeward early afternoon. His corpse is found February 19, lying in the snowy parking lot behind an office building. According to the coroner Mark was killed appr. 36 hours earlier, sexually assaulted, his body carefully cleaned and exposed for discovery.
August 8, 1976: Jane ALLAN (13) is abducted while hitchhiking in Royal Oak. Her dead body is found August 11 at Miamisburg (OH) poisoned with carbon monoxide.
December 21, 1976: Jill ROBINSON (12) disappears from Royal Oak, her body discoverd December 26 near Troy, laid out neatly in a roadside snow bank. The cause of death had been a single short-range shotgun blast. The corpse had been carefully scrubbed. This time there is no evidence of sexual assault.
January 2, 1977: Kristine MIHELICH (10) vanishes on a short walk from her Berkley home. Her body, laid out in a funeral position, is found January 21, in Franklin Village, not far from the location Cynthia CADIEUX had been discarded one year ago.
March 16, 1977: Timothy KING (11) disappears in Birmingham. Timothy´s mother begged for the safe return of her son through TV, promising his favorite chicken dinner on his return.
March 23, 1977: Timothy´s corpse is discoverd in a roadside ditch near Livonia. Timothy was suffocated apparently, his body scrubbed and manicured, his clothing cleaned and pressed. Medical examination confirmed sexual assault and a last chicken dinner before death.
March 27, 1977: Dr. Bruce DANTO, a Detroit psychiatrist, publishes an open letter to the “Babysitter”, called so by the media for his “care” for the victims while holding them captive.
One of the callers after DANTO´s theories published, tells DANTO “The article was wrong. You better hope it doesn´t snow any more.” Another caller, naming himself “Allen”, claims to be a roommate of the killer, having soldiered with him in Vietnam, offering weird theories and motives.
The next winter arrives, snow falls - but no more killings appear...
