Told like a story, but totally true, let this true crime story of Michigan’s worst serial killer case bring you back to the time and place of when and where it happened.
Critically rethinking everything.

Frances Shelden was an extremely wealthy Michigan businessman who was involved in an international pedophile ring. He was allowed to flee the country, because law enforcement looked the other way and was apparently too busy to investigate him and his pedophile connections regarding North Fox Island. He decided to disappear when he realized he was going to be questioned regarding these crimes.
He was protected at the very highest levels of the government, most likely the CIA type level.
Rodney Stichs (who had his bio deleted by Wikipedia) discusses financial CIA operations with an agent:
“Another of the many confidential sources with whom I had contact was Trenton Parker who played a key role in CIA activities in the Caribbean.
To qualify Parker for use in financial operations, the CIA obtained employment for him with New York Stock Exchange brokerage firms from 1971 until 1974 in California and Colorado. While in those positions, he supplied confidential information to the CIA on customers’ accounts and transactions. Eventually he opened his own brokerage firm as a front for the CIA through the SEC and NASD.
This is similar to the operation described to me by CIA operative Gunther Russbacher in which Russbacher received training at Mutual Life Insurance Company and then incorporated and operated a number of CIA financial institutions headquartered in Missouri. These institutions had offices throughout the United States including Denver, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and Traverse City, Michigan.”
Why Traverse City? Traverse City is a small community on Lake Michigan (the area has grown extensively.) This small influential community appears to be a hub for various illicit things. Like perhaps acting as financial conduit for things going on in the immediate area. The Petoskey/Charlevoix area, where Shelden owned a home, is a stone’s throw away from Traverse City.
“I keep forgetting that these crimes and the N. Fox Island crimes took place under the watch of not only L. Brooks Patterson and Oakland County local law enforcement, but also on the watch of Michigan A.G. Frank Kelley and Governor William Milliken (native of Traverse City).“
It is a interesting to note that there is/was a huge psychiatric hospital in Traverse City (its since been turned into stores, offices, etc.) that employed many people in the town back in the day.

Then there is the curious fact that James Dudley Ramsey, father of John Ramsey, and grandfather to JonBenet Ramsey, was head of the Michigan Aeronautics Commission from 1957 until 1979. This was the period that Shelden had the airstrip constructed and was flying both children and pedophile clients to North Fox Island.
Sources Cited:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140901162420-29817943-federal-personnel-dealing-in-drugs
Psychological Operations and the OCCK Case
Political Pedophile Blackmail Networks
The Secret History of John Bennet Ramsey
Access Graphics
Note: This post was deleted from Reddit.
Detective Robertson decided that the task force should turn to a psychic for help to help solve the OCCK case. They contacted CIA/DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) asset Dr Russell Targ of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) for help. Pioneering work in psychic research had been done by Targ, Hal Puthoff, and Andrija (Henry) Puharich. These men were largely making the occult and all things psychic mainstream, much to the delight of corporate America.
As written in the report it states that Targ advised them they should contact Mr Karliss Ogis of the American Society for Psychological Research. Perhaps this a Freudian slip in the notes, but it should be stated that it is the American Society for Psychical Research.
They decided to use Philip Jordan of New York, who was a special deputy sheriff with the Tioga County Sheriffs Department, New York and had had some success in solving cases for them. During this time, the Daily News had requested he work on the Son of Sam case, and he was waiting to hear back from them on this venture.
Philip Jordan tapped into some very intriguing information that would correlate with various facets of the case; in particular, the rope art work Helen Dagner described on John Hasting’s wall.
They dubbed it ‘Operation ESP’ just like a military type op. At the end of this ‘operation’ Detective Robertson felt it was all about ‘feelings’ and ‘innuendos.’ He noted that, “After a complete review of Operation ESP, it is felt that nothing further can be gained by spending additional time on information that cannot be pinpointed.”
Why they decided to use a psychic and never follow up on any of these very pertinent leads is anyone’s guess. Perhaps because he was the point man for the military industrial complex Detective Robert Robinson knew it was all a show.
Psychic Philip Jordan stressed that he felt it was very important to investigate details and evidence surrounding the first victim, Mark Stebbins. He felt that this particular abduction was very well thought out.
Most likely there were connections to people associated with the American Legion Hall, the last place victim Mark Stebbins was seen. These same people may be associated with the other three children’s abductions and murders. The comings and goings of the people associated with that hall should be investigated, along with their inter-relationships.
Sources Cited:
Jack Heart, Jack Heart: Puharich Primer,
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/05/04/jack-heart-puharich-primer/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Targ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_E._Puthoff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija_Puharich
https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/osis-karlis-1917-1997
OCCK-Files-1:
https://catherinebroad.blog/2021/02/14/my-brother-did-not-stand-a-chance/
https://catherinebroad.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/OCCK-Files-1.pdf