The Babysitter/Snow Killer

[sdreid]

That would have been Walter Cronkite if it was CBS.

[sdreid]

When I first heard about the case on the news, I think they were being called, going metro, the Detroit Child Murders.

If I remember correctly, it was covered on the CBS Evening News.

[sdreid]

Maybe the spotlight scared him straight.

Or, gave him what he was looking for.

[sdreid]

I think by the time the case got national attention, the core murders were pretty much over. Maybe the spotlight scared him straight.

[sdreid]

When I first heard about the case on the news, I think they were being called, going metro, the Detroit Child Murders.

[sdreid]

This is another case where the notoriety would increase if they'd settle on a single name. Some refer to it as the Oakland County Child Murders as well as other names.

[sdreid]

You may be right, I just don't know.

[dannymc]

The Babysitter/Snow Killer

My mistake i thought there was mention of a similar car seen at the dump site of one of the girls i think she was dumped in a car park.

[sdreid]

Hi Danny:

A woman said she saw a Gremlin at the Timothy King abduction site. I don't know about any other sightings but maybe I'm not fully informed. Police supposedly checked out all the Gremlin owners in the county without result. All those poor people were cleared but had to admit they drove a Gremlin.

[dannymc]

Im not sure if im remembering tisright but wasnt the car(Gremlin) seen at more than one of the crime scenes/dump sites?

[sdreid]

The principal motive for these crimes seems to me to be for company rather than sex or murder. If it had been murder then why keep the children for so long and if for sex why kidnap the girls who were not touched sexually? The murders were likely just to prevent identification of the perpetrator. They were probably not kept for months because the criminal had some reason to believe he would be discovered; perhaps a relative was coming to visit or he was going to have to be away from home for something like a business trip. It is a unique case as far as I can tell.

[sdreid]

Lamborgine went to prison for an unrelated crime and refused to take a polygraph regarding the Babysitter Case even when he was offered a reduced sentence to do so.

[sdreid]

One of the child's parents actually sued a suspect for wrongful death but I don't know what became of the action. That suspect was a man named Ted Lamborgine who has never been charged with any of the murders.

[sdreid]

Even though the boys were sexually abused and the girls weren't, that, for whatever reason, didn't seem to have any effect on how long he kept the victims alive.

[sdreid]

In the four main murders, by indications, the killer kept his victims alive for a minimum of four days.

Some of the victims may have been kept alive near two weeks.