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From http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/14369255/detail.html

For the first time in a 30-year investigation, a civil lawsuit has been filed by the family of a child who died at the hands of who police call the Oakland County Child Killer.


The wrongful death lawsuit names Ted Lamborgine, 65, as one of the group who collectively raped and murdered several children in the '70s and '80s.

The family of Mark Stebbins, one of the children slain, filed the lawsuit against Lamborgine.


"The police have the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. In a civil lawsuit, we don't have that same burden. Ours is more likely than not," said David Brinkley. "Under the circumstances, we believe we can utilize techniques a civil lawsuit permits and we believe we could perhaps push the investigation a little further."

The new suit will give attorneys new subpoena powers against Lamborgine and others that may have information about the case.


The Stebbins family is not seeking monetary damages. They said they are only filing the lawsuit to help in the investigation to get everyone responsible in jail.

more at link
 
Today On "E" (of all places) it had a great updated story about this case.

Seems like there might be a suspect. Child *advertiser censored* maker from the 70's. Ted Lamborgine.

Read the whole Wikipedia article for info on the possible perp.

I was very surprised at the quality of the two hour "Serial Killer" special on "E."

It was really good.
 
It has been a while since anyone has posted to this once active thread. Any news regarding the DNA testing - or any new articles on this subject?
 
Richard said:
It has been a while since anyone has posted to this once active thread. Any news regarding the DNA testing - or any new articles on this subject?
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http://pysih.com/2007/06/01/ted-lamborgine/

The article linked above appears to sort of imply that Lamborgine confessed to being OCCK and was sentenced to three life terms as a result but no other sources confirm this. The author may have misinterpreted reports of Lamborgine's conviction on unrelated charges. I don't know where the author got the idea that Lamborgine had been sentenced to three life terms.

Below is Wiki's article on the case. It appears that apart from Lamborgine's criminal profile, the most damning evidence against him is his refusal to take a polygraph test regarding the OCCK killings. Unfortunately the refusal is of little value in court since most judges will dismiss any evidence even remotely related to polygraph testing.

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_County_Child_Killer[/ame]
 
KarlK said:
http://pysih.com/2007/06/01/ted-lamborgine/

The article linked above appears to sort of imply that Lamborgine confessed to being OCCK and was sentenced to three life terms as a result but no other sources confirm this. The author may have misinterpreted reports of Lamborgine's conviction on unrelated charges. I don't know where the author got the idea that Lamborgine had been sentenced to three life terms.

Below is Wiki's article on the case. It appears that apart from Lamborgine's criminal profile, the most damning evidence against him is his refusal to take a polygraph test regarding the OCCK killings. Unfortunately the refusal is of little value in court since most judges will dismiss any evidence even remotely related to polygraph testing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_County_Child_Killer
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According to OTIS (Offender Tracking Information System), he is serving 3 life terms for 1st Degree CSC, along with 11 other sentences for 2nd and 3rd Degree CSC.
 
Did anything come of the reporter and her story about the pastor who committed suicide?
 
I'd like to know what became of the possibility of Chip St. Clair's father
 
Lyn1001 said:
According to OTIS (Offender Tracking Information System), he is serving 3 life terms for 1st Degree CSC, along with 11 other sentences for 2nd and 3rd Degree CSC.
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Ah, thanks for the precision.
 
Sex offender gets 3 life terms
April 26, 2007
Molly Tippen
Staff Writer

Dashing the hopes of investigators who thought they might finally be able to solve the Oakland County Child Killer case, Ted Lamborgine turned down a deal that would have put him in jail for 15 years, and instead was sentenced to three life terms for molesting several children more than 30 years ago.

At least one of the victims Lamborgine was convicted of molesting in the 1970s is from Romulus.

Lamborgine, 66 and of Parma, Ohio, rejected a deal offered by Wayne County Prosecutors and refused to talk about the murders of four Oakland County children in the mid-1970s. He accepted responsibility for about 15 counts of first and second degree criminal sexual conduct, said Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Robert Moran.

“This was a first in my career,” he said. “The law enforcement task of finding all of these victims was formidable, especially after all of these years.

”Lamborgine and a co-defendant, Richard Lawson, were implicated in an investigation into a child sex ring that operated in the Cass Corridor in Detroit in the 1970s. During the investigation, it was revealed that children were taken to a motel on Eureka Road in Romulus, where they were molested.

During sentencing, Lamborgine said the boys were paid for sex acts. Moran said the fact that Lamborgine tried to skirt responsibility for the molestation is infuriating.

“He said that it was paid for, and he tried to justify his behavior on that basis,” said Moran.

“But we’re talking about kids as young as 9 years old, and they can never legally consent to sex.”Moran said that a victim from Romulus was located during the investigation, but that he did not testify during court proceedings.

Richard Lawson, who along with Lamborgine also faced more than 15 counts of criminal sexual conduct, also appeared at Circuit Court for a hearing last week.Moran said Lawson is also facing charges that stem from Romulus.

Lawson is already convicted of killing his former employer in 1989 and is serving a life sentence for that crime.Technically, Lamborgine can be paroled after serving 15 years in prison, but Moran said the likelihood of his release is remote.http://www.journalgroup.com/Romulus/4121


LINK to Journal Newspapers Online: Sex offender gets 3 life terms:

http://www.journalgroup.com/Romulus/4121/sex-offender-gets-3-life-terms
 
The only question I have, is that if this is the guy, why did he stop killing? They don't usually get LESS violent as the years go by. This guy just moved to Ohio and then became an honest citizen? Does he have any kind of legal troubles in Ohio at all after the date of the last Michigan killing?

I'm not saying he didn't do it, because it certainly appears likely he did. It just seems odd.
 
ChaCha said:
I believe the DNA didn't match. Here is a recent post of mine which has several news media links to it on the subject of Chip St Clair's father Michael D. Grant. http://timesupblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/chip-stclair-hero-to-all-children-of.html
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Susan Murphy-Milano hosts BlogTalkRadio Show "Predators Behind Bars" with Special Guest Chip St Clair at 3PM Weds May 5, 2010 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susanmurphymilano/2010/05/05/predators-behind-bars
Call-in Number: (347) 326-9337
 
This sounds very likely...

CWW says on:
26 October 2009 at 8:16 pmOctober 26. 2009 1:22PM .Oakland County Child Killings

Finding Timmy’s killer: Family seeks answers 32 years after son’s death
King family believes they know who killed 11-year-old in 1977, but police are slow to act
Marney Rich Keenan / The Detroit News

For 32 years, Timmy King’s family has been waiting for the truth. Who abducted, molested and murdered their 11-year-old son and three other children during a 13-month reign of terror that besieged Oakland County between February 1976 and March 1977?

Timmy King was the last victim of the infamous Oakland County Child Killer. He was abducted and held for six days before his body was found on the side of a road, his orange skateboard tossed nearby like an afterthought.

No one has ever been charged with the killings, although numerous suspects have been investigated.

Now the King family believes they know who the killer is: A suspected Bloomfield Township pedophile who police had questioned three weeks before their boy’s murder. But they are frustrated that the task force empowered to probe the cold case is sitting on what they say is information that could close the case once and for all.


http://garysaid.com/oakland-county-child-killings/

Then Timmy's dad filed a lawsuit a few months ago..

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/23251621/detail.html

Busch looks pretty good for it if you ask me..particularly since the killing stopped completely..
 
Busch might be the one, but I have a big question. Is there any evidence of Busch molesting, or possessing *advertiser censored* depicting, young girls?

Wikipedia has the following info about the killer:

"Investigators put together a profile of the killer based on witnesses' descriptions of the man seen talking to Timothy King the night he disappeared—a white male with a dark complexion, 25 to 35 years old with shaggy hair and sideburns. Authorities believed that the killer had a job that gave him freedom of movement and may have appeared to be someone that a child might trust, such as a police officer, clergyman or a doctor. He was also believed to be familiar with the area and had the ability to keep children for long periods of time without rousing neighbors' suspicions."

Does anyone have a description of Chris Busch? Does it match, or come close?
 
Marilynilpa said:
Busch might be the one, but I have a big question. Is there any evidence of Busch molesting, or possessing *advertiser censored* depicting, young girls?

Wikipedia has the following info about the killer:

"Investigators put together a profile of the killer based on witnesses' descriptions of the man seen talking to Timothy King the night he disappeared—a white male with a dark complexion, 25 to 35 years old with shaggy hair and sideburns. Authorities believed that the killer had a job that gave him freedom of movement and may have appeared to be someone that a child might trust, such as a police officer, clergyman or a doctor. He was also believed to be familiar with the area and had the ability to keep children for long periods of time without rousing neighbors' suspicions."

Does anyone have a description of Chris Busch? Does it match, or come close?
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I'm not sure if this link will work but there is a photograph of Busch on SKC

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...tYyrDA&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=8&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0


Meanwhile I just spent probably two hours reading about this and it seems it all boils down to Cass Corridor. That pedophile ring. There's grown men and women that as teens hung out there. Supposedly there were so many "people" involved with hurting kids it reads like a horror story. Busch was known to a number of those men.

Speculation but they say there was even a preacher at Cass United they think could have been involved. Extremely frightening stuff from an age of innocence.

The poor King family.
 
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