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start: 1976
location: North Fox Island, Michigan
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Francis Duffield Shelden belonged to an old-money establishment family in Michigan, with lineage tracing back to a governor, senator, and United States Secretary of War. Endowed with a trust fund, Shelden pursued a life of philanthropy that took a particular interest in youth charity. He served on the board of the [[Cranbrook Institute]] and [[Boys Republic]], volunteered for [[Big Brother]] programs, and worked part-time as a geology professor at Wayne State University. Behind this respectable facade, Shelden owned a private island in Lake Michigan called [[North Fox Island]], where in 1976 he established a summer camp called [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]]. The camp, incorporated through [[Adam Starchild]] and linked to a sham New Jersey church called [[The Church of New Revelation]], was in reality an international child pornography and prostitution operation. When Michigan police arrested a gym teacher named [[Gerald Richards]] in July 1976, Richards confessed and implicated Shelden as a principal figure in a nationwide child exploitation network. Shelden fled Michigan before an arrest warrant could be authorised, transferring his assets into offshore trusts and escaping to [[Amsterdam]].
Francis Duffield Shelden belonged to an old-money establishment family in Michigan, with lineage tracing back to a governor, senator, and United States Secretary of War. Endowed with a trust fund, Shelden pursued a life of philanthropy that took a particular interest in youth charity. He served on the board of the [[Cranbrook Institute]] and [[Boys Republic]], volunteered for [[Big Brother]] programs, and worked part-time as a geology professor at Wayne State University. Behind this respectable facade, Shelden owned a private island in Lake Michigan called [[North Fox Island]], where in 1976 he established a summer camp called [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]]. The camp, incorporated through [[Adam Starchild]] and linked to a sham [[New Jersey]] church called [[The Church of New Revelation]], was in reality an international child pornography and prostitution operation. When Michigan police arrested a gym teacher named [[Gerald Richards]] in July 1976, Richards confessed and implicated Shelden as a principal figure in a nationwide child exploitation network. Shelden fled Michigan before an arrest warrant could be authorised, transferring his assets into offshore trusts and escaping to [[Amsterdam]].
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