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February 15, 1976 – March 16, 1977. Country. United States. State (s) Michigan. The Oakland County Child Killer (OCCK) is the name given to the perpetrator (s) responsible for the serial killings of at least four children in Oakland County, Michigan, between 1976 and 1977. The victims were held captive before being killed and the four deaths ...
Detroit. 1967-07-25/26. 3. Three civilians shot and killed by police at the Algiers Hotel during the 1967 Detroit riot, dramatized in the 2017 film Detroit. Robison family murders. Good Hart. 1968-06-25. 6. Mass murder of family from suburban Detroit while vacationing at cottage.
The auto age enveloped Pontiac in the early 1900s. The Oakland Motor Car Company was founded in 1907 and became a part of General Motors Corp., which was soon Pontiac's dominant firm. [10] In the 1950s, Oakland County's population boomed as the Detroiters began migrating to the suburbs.
Pontiac (/ ˈ p ɒ n (t) i æ k / PON-(t)ee-ak) is a city in and the county seat of Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. [3] Located roughly 26 miles (41.8 km) northwest of downtown Detroit, Pontiac is part of the Detroit metropolitan area, and is variously described as a satellite city or suburb of Detroit.
On Friday's News Hit: - A suspect barricaded himself in a Walled Lake home after shooting a neighbor. - Kamala Harris visited Michigan on Thursday for a townhall where she answered questions ahead ...
July 30, 1969. Imprisoned at. G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility. The Michigan Murders were a series of highly publicized killings of young women committed between 1967 and 1969 in the Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti area of Southeastern Michigan by an individual known as the Ypsilanti Ripper, the Michigan Murderer, and the Co-Ed Killer. [3]
Jack Kevorkian. Murad Jacob " Jack " Kevorkian (May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011) was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime". [2] Kevorkian said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end.
United States. State (s) Michigan. Date apprehended. August 21, 1992. Benjamin Thomas Atkins [2] (August 26, 1968 – September 17, 1997), also known as The Woodward Corridor Killer, was an American serial killer and rapist who murdered, tortured, and raped 11 women in Highland Park and Detroit, Michigan, during a period of eight months between ...